Hot Chips 2026 Guide: Rubin, BlueField-4, TPU v8, OpenAI Chips
Hot Chips 2026 runs August 23-25 at Stanford — NVIDIA Rubin GPU, BlueField-4, Google TPU v8, OpenAI custom silicon, Meta MTIA. Developer prep guide with full schedule.
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Google TPU v8 vs Nvidia Rubin: Agentic AI Infrastructure Guide
Google TPU v8 eighth generation debuts at Hot Chips Aug 25, 2026 — two chips for training and serving. How it compares to NVIDIA Rubin for agentic AI developers on GCP vs CUDA.
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Google Pays SpaceX $920M/Month for 110,000 GPUs at xAI Data Center
Regulatory filings confirm Google pays SpaceX $920M/month for 110,000 Nvidia GPUs at xAI Memphis. What the deal means for developers and cloud economics.
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Trump AI Order: 30-Day Government Review Before Model Release, June 2026
Trump signed an executive order on June 2 giving the US government 30 days of voluntary early access to frontier AI models before release, plus an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse inside DHS.
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Anthropic $965B IPO Explainer: Claude, Investors, and What Goes Public
Anthropic filed for an IPO at $965B valuation. Here is what Claude earns, who owns the company, and what going public means for API users and developers.
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DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Users Flee Google AI Search
DuckDuckGo US app installs peaked at 30.5% week-over-week after Google I/O 2026's AI overhaul. iOS hit 69.9%. Publishers face a 38% referral traffic drop as 60% of searches end without a click.
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Google I/O 2026 Developer Recap: Jules GA, Code Mender, TPU 8i, AGI
Google I/O 2026 developer keynote: Jules coding agent goes GA, Code Mender auto-patches vulnerabilities, Managed Agents API, TPU 8i 80% better, Demis says AGI is on the horizon.
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Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity, Universal Cart, Gemma 4
Google I/O 2026 full recap: Gemini 3.5 Flash (289 tokens/sec), Antigravity 2.0 (12x faster), Universal Cart with Amazon/Walmart, Gemma 4 open source, Android Halo, AI Ultra $100.
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Gemini 3.1 Ultra: 2M Context, Multimodal, Beats GPT-5 on Code
Google released Gemini 3.1 Ultra with a 2M token context window, sandboxed code execution, and multimodal reasoning. Benchmark comparison vs GPT-5 and Claude 3.7 for developers.
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Google I/O 2026: May 19-20, Android 17, Gemini Agentic Dev Tools
Google I/O 2026 is confirmed for May 19-20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Android 17, Gemini agentic coding tools, and AI Studio updates are expected. Full developer preview.
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Google AI Pro Gets 5TB Storage Free — $19.99/Month Just Beat Every Rival
Google quietly tripled AI Pro storage from 2TB to 5TB at no extra cost. At $19.99/month you now get Gemini 3.1 Pro, 20 Deep Research reports daily, and more cloud storage than ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro offer.
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Gemma 4 (April 2026): #3 Arena Open LLM, Apache 2, Developer Guide
Gemma 4 April 2, 2026: Google open weights on Gemini 3, 400M+ Gemma downloads, 31B #3 Arena open LLM, Apache 2. E2B–31B sizes, Ollama, vLLM, Vertex.
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Google I/O 2026 May Preview: Gemini 3.2, Project Astra, Android 16 Confirmed
Google I/O 2026 is expected in May. Here's what developers should prepare for: Gemini 3.2, Project Astra agent, Android 16 final, Workspace AI, and Firebase AI upgrades.
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Google March 2026 Core Update: Rollout Completes April 11 — Winners, Losers, Recovery
Google's March 2026 core update rolled out March 27, completing around April 11. AI content farms lost 60-80% traffic. Affiliate sites down 71%. Here's what won and what to fix.
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Change Gmail Username Without Losing Data: US Guide (2026)
US Gmail: change @gmail.com username without a new account. Old address still works. Complete steps, limits, eligibility, March 2026 US rollout.
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Gemini 3 Deep Think Hits 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 and 3455 Elo on Codeforces
Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think scored 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, 48.4% on Humanity's Last Exam, and 3455 Elo on Codeforces. Gemini 3.1 Pro is now in preview. Here is what the benchmarks actually mean.
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Google Search Live Hits 75M Users: What It Means for Developer Blog SEO
Google Search Live expanded to 200+ countries on March 26, 2026. AI Mode has 75 million daily users. Queries are 3x longer. Here is what the citation redesign means for your content ranking.
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Google Stitch: Free AI Tool That Builds App UI From Plain Text
Google Labs upgraded Stitch on March 19, 2026. The free AI design tool now has Voice Canvas, Vibe Design, MCP server for Claude Code and Cursor, and generates 5 screens at once.
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Apple Is Paying Google $1B/Year to Power Siri with Gemini — What Developers Need to Know
Apple chose Google Gemini over OpenAI and Anthropic to rebuild Siri, paying $1B per year. iOS 26.4 brings on-screen awareness, personal context, and deep app control. Full developer breakdown.
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Google Gave the Pentagon's 3 Million Military Employees an AI Agent Builder
Google launched Agent Designer inside Gemini for Government, letting 3 million US military employees build their own AI agents. This is what Anthropic refused to provide.
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A BBC Reporter Hacked ChatGPT and Gemini With One Fake Blog Post
Thomas Germain published a fake article about a made-up hot dog contest and within 24 hours ChatGPT and Google Gemini were citing it as fact. Here is what this means for developers building AI products.
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Google Buys Wiz for $32B: What It Means for Cloud Security Developers
Google has officially closed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, its largest deal ever. Wiz keeps its brand under Google Cloud. Here's what changes for developers and security engineers.
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Google Maps Just Got Its Biggest Update in a Decade: Immersive Navigation and Ask Maps Explained
Google Maps is rolling out Immersive Navigation with full 3D route views and Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered AI search for 300 million places. Here is what changed, what it means for users, and what developers building on the Maps Platform need to know.
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Google I/O 2026 and Google Cloud Next 2026: Dates, What to Expect, and Why Developers Should Care
Google I/O 2026 (May) and Google Cloud Next 2026 (April) are the two biggest Google events for developers. Dates, keynotes, Gemini and agentic coding updates, and what to watch if you build with Android, Cloud, or AI.
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OpenAI o3 vs Gemini 2.0 Ultra vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Developer Benchmark
Which AI model wins on code, long context, tool use, price per token, and latency? Real developer benchmarks for OpenAI o3, Gemini 2.0 Ultra, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
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Google's March 2026 Core Update Is Rolling Out Now. The First-Ever Discover Update Already Hit. Here Is What to Do.
Google confirmed a broad core algorithm update is live as of March 2026 — plus the first-ever Google Discover core update. Sites are seeing ranking swings. Here is what developers and publishers must check right now.
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Apple Paid Google $1 Billion to Power Siri With Gemini — and Something Quietly Broke
Apple quietly struck a multi-year deal paying Google roughly $1 billion a year to put Gemini inside Siri. It is the biggest consumer AI story of 2026, and it contradicts everything Apple spent a decade telling you about your privacy.
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