Google’s AI Mode in Search now lets you plan, write, and code on its own Canvas

Google Search has updated Canvas inside AI Mode, a workspace powered by Gemini that already lets users draft and refine documents, to now support coding projects and interactive tools. With the latest ...

Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged a Florida man to commit suicide

Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the ...

Google's AI chatbot allegedly told user to stage 'mass casualty attack,' wrongful death suit claims

The father of Jonathan Gavalas accused Google of convincing his son to commit suicide after first encouraging him to execute ...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes.
Nature

AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...
GitHub

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI.

Experimental - This project is still in development, and not ready for the prime time. A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI. Monty avoids the cost, latency, complexity ...
decrypt

'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...
MedPage Today

Doctors Are Quietly Using AI. Bans Won't Fix That.

In a busy clinic, it's easy to imagine the scene: a clinician pastes a long consult note into a chatbot to get a clean summary, or asks it to draft an appeal letter for the fourth insurance denial of ...
People

Czech Figure Skaters Face Backlash for Using AI-Generated Music in Their Olympic Routine

Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek placed 17th in the competition on Feb. 9 JMP/ABACA/Shutterstock Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek faced backlash for their use of AI-generated music in the rhythm ...
InfoWorld

AI will not save developer productivity

The software industry is collectively hallucinating a familiar fantasy. We visited versions of it in the 2000s with offshoring and again in the 2010s with microservices. Each time, the dream was ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...