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Announced July 29, the privacy-preserving API lets parents share a child's age range directly with apps so developers can tailor content without per-app configuration. Live in Brazil now, Australia and Canada by mid-August 2026, global later in 2026. Google framed integration as optional rather than mandated.
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Tracer.AI filed a DMCA notice on Microsoft's behalf alleging Luanti's Android app infringes Minecraft, and Google removed it; the Luanti team published the account August 27 and calls the claim baseless (Luanti). The notice cited only a copyright registration number for Minecr...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
TechCrunch's August 29 piece frames Nvidia's durable advantage as system-level, built around Vera Rubin pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, a Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks. VP of storage technology Jason Hardy is quoted claiming "upwar...
Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen confirmed that the AI Office sent formal requests for information to general-purpose model providers based in different regions, reported to include OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Two separate RFIs went out: one on model security, indepe...
OpenAI published "A call for collective action on cyber defense" on August 27, co-signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, plus non-tech signatories including Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, General Motors an...
Signatories on August 27 include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle and IBM, saying there's "a limited window" to build unified defenses and naming hospitals, water treatment plants and internet infra...
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