Google said Thursday it blocked a record 8. 3 billion ads globally in 2025 — up from 5. 1 billion the year before. But the company suspended far fewer advertiser accounts than that surge might suggest, raising questions about how it polices its platform. The search giant attributed the disparity …

Google on Thursday announced that Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature will get Nano Banana-powered image generation to create images with personalized context. That means its AI images can be created using Gemini’s understanding of your likes and interests, without those having to be explicitly noted in the prompt. This works because …

Roblox is introducing new agentic features to help developers plan, build, and test games on its platform, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. Roblox is revamping Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, to help creators throughout the entire development process. The company says that AI tools that take …

As of March, AI traffic to U. retailers’ websites rose by 269% over the previous 12 months, continuing the momentum during the holiday shopping season when AI traffic was up by 693%, according to new data released on Thursday by Adobe. And in the first three months of 2026, AI …

The role of observability tools has evolved once again. While the market for solutions to ensure tech systems’ reliability has grown over the years, the center of gravity has steadily shifted from “track everything” to “control complexity and costs. ” Meanwhile, the rapid influx and adoption of AI agents within …

citizens were sentenced to seven and a half years and nine years in prison for their roles in a scheme to help the North Korean government place remote IT workers in American companies. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang, both New Jersey residents. The …

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience. Now, when you’re using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the web page side-by-side with AI Mode. The goal is to make it easier …

Last year, I was telegraphed a subliminal mandate from the indie rock powers that be: I was supposed to like Geese. The young Brooklynites make good music, but are they the saviors of rock and roll, the defining rock band of Gen Z, the second coming of The Strokes? The …

Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a. ET time on Thursday and have continued since. Currently, the Bluesky site and app will …

Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14. His departure was disclosed to the U. Securities and Exchange Commission by the publicly traded $10 billion company the same day that The Information reported Anthropic’s next model, Opus 4. 7, will …