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Google details how it is enacting security guardrails before rolling out agentic capabilities on Chrome.

Shoppers will be able to go from recipe planning to checkout within the ChatGPT window.

Shared Feeds will surface new content tailored to both users' tastes, such as sports, winter activities, and their favorite creators.

Petco said the exposure was due to an error in an application, and that it is notifying victims’ whose data was affected.

Quilt has sold nearly 1,000 units in the U.S. and Canada, and the new funding should help expand sales operations to more states and provinces.

Internet Backyard, a new startup building billing software for data centers and GPU providers, announced a $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Basis Set Ventures.

The two-month-old company describes itself as a “financial infrastructure layer for the AI compute economy,” aiming to automate the entire order-to-cash process and replace the spreadsheets and manual handoffs that sit between sales, operations and finance.

The company’s first product, called gnomos, is a full-stack platform that helps data center operators and their customers track and charge for GPU and infrastructure usage.

The startup plans to generate revenue by taking a small percentage of the invoice income it helps recover, plus fees on routed payment flow and data licensing. It has a longer-term goal of becoming a data aggregation layer for industry benchmarks and performance metrics.

Other backers include Crucible Capital, Maple VC, Operator Collective, Seattle-based Breakers, and angels including Jay Adelson (Equinix founder), D-Wave founder Geordie Rose (founder of D-Wave and Sanctuary AI) and Ian Crosby (founder of Bench Accounting).

The 5-person company is led by CEO Mai Trinh, a former technical project manager at Sanctuary AI, and CTO Gabriel Ravacci, a recent engineering grad who worked on next-generation AI accelerators at AMD. The startup got off the ground in Vancouver B.C. but is relocating to San Francisco.

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode  —  Google has told advertising clients in recent days that it plans to bring ads to its AI chatbot Gemini, according to agency buyers familiar with the conversations.

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NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5+ GW of clean energy contracts from Meta  —  NextEra Energy (NEE.N) expanded its partnership with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud to scale up data center capacity …

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Samsung has opened the One UI 8.5 beta program for the Galaxy S25 series, giving users a chance to experience the update ahead of the stable release.

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New data shows that Gemini is keeping users engaged longer than ChatGPT, with 11 daily minutes spent in the app on average. Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s time-spent growth remains slow, and user engagement has dipped 10% compared with earlier this year.

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