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Google takes ads in AI Mode search to international markets
Google is expanding ads in AI Mode into international markets for the first time. It says click-through rates for sponsored product listings in AI Mode are comparable to those for organic listings.
Source: TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Wiz CTO says more bugs are coming for aging web code
Two critical bugs in PHP, which runs roughly 70% of websites, led some organizations to take sites offline until patched. Wiz's CTO covers whether small business owners running WordPress sites need to worry.
Source: TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Anthropic adds reports showing what teams get from AI spending
Anthropic announced reporting tools for enterprise customers that let managers see what a team produced, what it cost and where workflows broke down, with tips to improve. It is also creating pooled group budgets for token spending.
Source: TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Deepgram buys Daily and promises to keep Pipecat open source
Deepgram is acquiring Daily, maker of Pipecat, a popular open source framework for voice AI. The companies say Pipecat stays open source, and Deepgram is launching an open protocol for voice agents co-developed with the Pipecat team.
Source: TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Mistral opens weights of trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model
Mistral released the weights for Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face, so businesses and governments can download and deploy it themselves. Mistral says it uses 47 percent fewer tokens per task than rival GLM-5.3.
Source: TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
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