rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership
rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arriv…

Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models
Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models

Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google’s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh…

Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. Hi…

Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s
Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window…

Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage
Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage

PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figu…

Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI

A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production.Download this free whitepaper now!

Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine
Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine

Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendee’s device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research …

Tencent’s AI compute bill outgrew its cash flow, and the fallback plan is becoming a landlord
Tencent’s AI compute bill outgrew its cash flow, and the fallback plan is becoming a landlord

Tencent reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8bn yuan ($30.4bn) on Wednesday, up 11% and ahead of forecasts. Net profit came in at 56bn yuan against the 61.8bn analysts expected, CNBC reports. Capital expenditure rose 176% on the year to 52.8bn yuan,…

ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped
ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped

GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the develop…

Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them
Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watch…