A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket 
A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket 

Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, […]

Motorola says affiliate hijacking of Amazon app was ‘unintended’
Motorola says affiliate hijacking of Amazon app was ‘unintended’

Motorola says that recently discovered behavior, which saw some of its phones sending users to an affiliate tracking website before opening the Amazon app, was “unintended” and has been “promptly corrected.” The company didn’t explain how the error was introduced in the first place. “Recently, Motorola acted quickly to resolve an issue that was identified, […]

YouTube mentions are the single strongest predictor of whether AI will recommend your brand, according to a study of 75,000 companies
YouTube mentions are the single strongest predictor of whether AI will recommend your brand, according to a study of 75,000 companies

A study of 75,000 brands by SEO platform Ahrefs has found that YouTube mentions are the strongest correlated signal for whether a brand appears in AI-generated search results, outperforming every other factor the researchers tested across ChatGPT, Goog…

Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app
Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app

After a flood of complaints about the Google Health app that just replaced Fitbit, Google has responded with a list of changes that will roll out starting this week. Google is addressing some of the biggest complaints users had, like the Today dashboard that can only show users’ chosen health metrics in the top half […]

YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not
YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not

YouTube has announced that it will begin automatically detecting and labelling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI-generated content, using internal signals rather than relying on creators to disclose it themselves. The change marks a shi…

ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track

YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them
YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them

In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it’s relocating AI disclosures on Shorts and long-form videos to make them easier to spot and will start automatically identifying and labeling AI-generated content on the platform. For […]

Apple and Google push for judicial oversight of Canada’s lawful-access bill
Apple and Google push for judicial oversight of Canada’s lawful-access bill

Apple and Google have formally pushed for amendments to Bill C-22, the Canadian government’s lawful-access legislation now working its way through the House of Commons, arguing that the bill as drafted creates a potential for secret orders to compel ch…

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead
Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we’ve spent more time with it), Google has officially replaced it with Google Health, as previously announced, and many of the responses we’ve seen so far are full of confusion, frustration, […]