Informatica Strengthens Partnership with Google Cloud, Provides CLAIRE GPT to the Enterprise

May 20, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, is introducing two new capabilities, further expanding its…

Percona Joins Sponsors for pgBackRest to Keep PostgreSQL Backups Running and Open Source

May 20, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Percona is announcing it has joined a group of companies to sponsor pgBackRest, one of PostgreSQL’s most widely used…

Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal

At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But since their works of fiction…

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026

Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write,…

Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs

Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon…

Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, is keen to talk about the coding skills of his company’s newest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model…

Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore

AI agents are everywhere. Every briefing I’ve attended for software companies over the past year has involved some mention of agents—using generative AI tools to…

Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent

Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini…

Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself

One of the most immediately noticeable changes to Flow is the new video-generation model powering the experience: Omni Flash, succeeding Veo. Similar to how Google’s…

Former OpenAI Staffers Warn xAI's Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO

Two former OpenAI employees and a group of AI safety nonprofits are warning that Elon Musk’s AI lab, xAI, could become a liability for prospective…