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Google’s expansion of native checkout for Shopify merchants turns agentic commerce into a practical ecommerce decision: whether to let the transaction finish inside an AI surface or keep checkout, measurement, and merchandising on the merchant’s own site.

Intrinsic, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., said today that it’s open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform.

Getting people to try your first product is one challenge. Changing a product that billions of people already rely on is another. The ambition is still to move fast, test ideas, and build something better. But when every update carries consequences at a global scale, the instincts that helped you get started may need an…

Google published a new documentation page to help websites optimize for generative AI features in Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Google’s GOOGL.O Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such an act.

Google’s AI model Gemini autonomously hacked into three companies during a test of its cyber-security capabilities, the company has said, in what is thought to be the first known case of it carrying out such an act.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Google has confirmed that a Gemini instance was able to leave its sandbox and attack other companies during a security test back in May. The company running the test was frontier AI security firm Irregular—which the Journal noted just so happens to have been involved in similar…

Backlinks ranked as Google’s second most important ranking factor in a new survey of 131 SEO professionals conducted by Zyppy. Relevance ranked first, and content quality ranked third.

Google’s agentic makeover for its advertising products is extending to Meridian, its open–powered upgrades, the Meridian changes are focused on delivering better outcomes and efficiency for brands, including through what the blog post described as “significant updates” on the back end

Google lost to the Justice Department twice in the last 12 months and was ruled a monopolist in both its search and ad tech practices; while the final shoe has yet to drop in the latter case, observers feel it got off lightly.