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the Financial Times and Axios have joined Google’s news programme. They will provide their content for generative AI features and receive payment for its use. Bloomberg reported on Oct. 15 that the programme now has more than 400 participating outlets worldwide

Google removed the Indexing API approval form from its documentation on Oct. 16, along with the instructions telling developers to ask for approval.

Google is updating how links will be presented in both AI Mode and AI Overviews. The search engine has announced five changes. First, it will display inline links more frequently higher up in response listings. Second, it plans to start testing a section at the top of certain responses with links to official sites about…

WhatsApp’s new guest calling feature allows you to invite anyone to a call, without needing them to make an account first. They won’t need the app, either, since Meta also added support for calls on the web version of WhatsApp earlier this year. You can invite guests just by sending them the call link, and…

Google Ads is introducing new controls that let advertisers prioritize channels and limit how much of their campaign budgets can be spent across Google-owned inventory and partner networks.

Google’s John Mueller recently discussed how Google processes PDFs for ranking purposes, how it indexes them for use in AI Mode and regular search, and why it is able to use links in PDFs the same as it does for regular HTML web pages.

When I said yes to testing the all-electric Mercedes-Benz G 580, I did so pretty enthusiastically. I expected it to be exceedingly competent and lavish — sounds like a fun way to spend a week if you ask me — but I also figured the EV would compromise on some of the purity of the…

Google is hiring engineers to generate and recommend AI content for Discover, according to listings on its careers site. A Staff ML Engineer listing says the Discover Feed Recommendation team “leads by recommending AI-generated content (AIGC) to fulfill user interests.”

Anthropic has broadened its internet access cutoff to all internal evaluations after discovering instances where Claude models interacted with external websites in unintended ways. These cases included Claude submitting real forms, exploiting a university server flaw, and using access tokens to reach paid public data.

NVIDIA is in talks to deepen its investment in open- company, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter