Winaero published a blog post yesterday (February 27) stating that Google Chrome browser downloads approximately 4GB of Gemini Nano AI model files to the local system by default without explicit user authorization. X platform user @zephyrianna was the first to discover this anomaly. She noticed unusual space usage on her C drive and eventually identified…
Google has officially launched the Nano Banana 2 image model. The new model is built on Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and boasts faster response times and stronger understanding capabilities compared to its predecessor, with more accurate parsing of user prompts. According to Google, Nano Banana 2 has significantly improved in terms of generation consistency, while…
IBM has become the latest major technology company to suffer a sharp drop in its stock price, which can be attributed to market concerns about new artificial intelligence features. IBM’s stock price plummeted 13.2% on Monday after AI company Anthropic published a new blog post. The post claimed that its Claude Code could automate some…
According to a report by the South Korean media outlet Chosun Ilbo today (February 23), Hyundai Motor Group has confirmed plans to invest 10 trillion won over the next five years to develop a center in the Saemangeum area of Gangwon Province, South Korea, specifically for future AI (artificial intelligence), hydrogen energy, and robotics businesses. The…
A growing number of developers are questioning the billing transparency of Anthropic’s Claude Code, warning that the AI coding assistant can generate unexpectedly high costs with limited visibility into how charges accumulate. The concerns surfaced in a widely discussed GitHub issue thread under the Claude Code repository, where users detailed experiences of spiralling API bills…
Epic Games has acquired Meshcapade, a German AI digital human 3D modeling company derived from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Epic Games will also open an office in Tübingen, where Meshcapade is located. Meshcapade is based on the SMPL (Skinned Multi-Person Linear) human model developed by the institute. This technology is based on…
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT now offers multi-tiered subscription services to meet the needs of different users. The free version of ChatGPT has feature and usage limits and includes advertising. The paid subscription, ChatGPT Go, is priced at $8 per month and provides basic paid services while retaining some limitations and ads. The mainstream version, ChatGPT Plus,…
DuckDuckGo announced in a blog post yesterday (February 19th) that its privacy AI platform Duck.ai, has launched an AI image editing function. This function is free to use (with a limit) and can be used directly without registering an account. DuckDuckGo launched its image generation feature at the end of 2025, and to further lower…
OpenAI released an announcement on February 13, 2026, announcing the addition of advanced security settings for ChatGPT. OpenAI states that as AI systems begin to take on more complex tasks, especially in scenarios involving web pages and external applications, security risks are surging. One emerging and prominent risk is “prompt injection.” In this type of…
Cloudflare announced the launch of the Markdown for Agents feature, which can convert HTML-formatted web page content into Markdown format, which is more suitable for AI crawlers or intelligent agents, improving the readability of content for AI. Cloudflare states that HTML-formatted web page content is traditionally geared towards human users rather than AI, and its…
