Salesforce will buy Fin, formerly Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to expand Agentforce with AI customer service agents and support automation.

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ShinyHunters claims it stole 297GB of data from the Council of Europe, including payroll and medical records, but the organization has not confirmed a breach.

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Meta AI Mode brings AI-generated answers to Facebook search using public posts, raising questions about reliability and source visibility.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google said that LLMS.txt files won't help or hurt your search rankings, Google just ignores it...

India’s sovereign AI debate is moving from policy ambition to enterprise risk as US model access limits expose gaps in compute, cloud, governance, and infrastructure.

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A new study has found that major AI models on the market routinely fail to comply with ethical and privacy regulations.

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Apple may still have more Macs planned for 2026, including the rumored Mac Studio, iMac, Mac mini, and high-end OLED MacBook updates.

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AcePDF Converter & Editor allows you create or convert PDF documents into a variety of formats or from a variety of formats with ease.

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Microsoft’s June Windows 11 update adds Task Manager NPU visibility for supported AI PCs, helping IT teams verify hardware, drivers, and policy-sensitive changes before rollout.

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Discover project management methodologies, compare Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, and more, then choose the right approach for your projects.

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Google's latest Off The Record podcast was titled Markdown vs HTML with John Mueller and Martin Splitt talking about the use cases for both. In short, both said that when it comes to SEO and Search...

John Mueller from Google said that when it comes to having a multinational site, making a specific US folder structure won't give you any practical SEO difference. It might be easier for you to manage or for your to analyze with your analytics and data but from an SEO perspective, it won't matter.

Google has been mixing sponsored ads within its organic free search listings since October 2023. Eventually, Google said this is called dynamic ad placement, and it has become the new Google Search. Google has been doing this with the image search results as well, at least for a year. But now it is being called about by the famous, educated and wealthy Paul Graham on X.

Here's what GitMind ($50) actually does and why it matters for professionals managing information overload.

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Microsoft Advertising has rolled out a new feature named Product Explorer. This tool gives advertisers a searchable view of your entire product catalog, letting you quickly see which of your products are active, serving, and performing.

Google has announced the Google Colab Command-Line Interface (CLI), a new tool that allows developers and AI agents to connect local terminals to remote Colab runtimes for frictionless execution. The lightweight CLI enables users to easily request high-powered GPUs, run local Python scripts remotely, and seamlessly retrieve artifact logs or models like fine-tuned Gemma 3 adapters. By integrating directly into standard terminal environments, the tool is highly programmable and ready to be used by AI agents such as Antigravity or Claude Code to manage complex machine learning pipelines.

Google has updated its guide for optimizing for generative AI search help document to clarify that (1) LLMS.txt files don't help or hurt with search rankings and (2) AI files, markdown files, etc are not used in Google Search.

Google has announced the launch of version 0.1.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin, alongside a specialized ADK library for Android. This open-source framework simplifies the creation of AI agents by managing complex orchestration, session sharing, and error handling across cloud and edge environments. The release supports hybrid orchestration, enabling developers to build multi-agent systems where a cloud-based model can seamlessly offload specific tasks to local, on-device models like Gemini Nano to enhance user privacy.

Google is expanding its smart home ecosystem by launching a full-stack Gemini AI offering that integrates advanced camera intelligence, natural language queries, and daily activity summaries. This initiative provides service providers and hardware manufacturers with turnkey reference designs and APIs to build proactive, branded services without extensive research and development. Ultimately, the program aims to move beyond basic device control toward an AI-native home that can understand context and care for users' needs in real time.

Google Pay is evolving for "agentic commerce" by introducing the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new MCP server that allows AI agents to manage integrations and analyze trends. New Android updates introduce dynamic callbacks for seamless express checkouts and extend payment support into social media apps via WebViews. Additionally, the platform is launching cross-device biometric authentication and new transaction signals to help merchants reduce friction and optimize processing costs.