Alphabet's Google opened a new AI infrastructure hardware engineering centre in Taiwan on Thursday - its biggest outside of the U.S. - in what Taiwan's president said was a show of confidence in the island as a trustworthy technology partner.

The new search tool uses AI to identify the main topics and relationships in a user’s query and is currently available to a limited set of logged-in users. The demo video from Scholar Labs featured a question about brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). I have a PhD in BCIs, so I was eager to see what Scholar Labs pulled up.

Directly into AI infrastructure: servers, storage, power and cooling systems, along with a vast quantity of chips to support Search, Ads, YouTube, Gemini, and

Alphabet's Google on Thursday opened in Taiwan its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware engineering centre outside of the United States, in what Taiwan's president said was a show of confidence in the island as a trustworthy technology partner.

After more than a month of rumors and feverish speculation — including Polymarket wagering on the release date — Google today unveiled Gemini 3, its newest proprietary frontier model family and the company’s most comprehensive AI release since the Gemini line debuted in 2023.

AI Max helps advertisers capture net-new, incremental conversions beyond their existing keywords, offering clearer controls and measurable lift.

Google clearly has high hopes for Gemini 3 in the coding domain. Along with the new model, the company has released Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform that will likely compete with fast-growing startup Cursor, which sells its own AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE).

Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, today announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and interoperability needed for large-scale AI agent ecosystems.