Google has made agentic restaurant booking through AI Mode globally available.Rose Yao, Google’s Vice President of Product Management, announced the worldwide rollout via X on April 10, 2026:“Date nights and big group dinners just got a lot easier. We’re thrilled to expand agentic restaurant booking in Search globally, including the U.K. and India!”Agentic restaurant booking through AI Mode first became available in August 2025, but it was only for U.S. users with a Google AI Ultra subscription. The global rollout makes this feature far more accessible — and a subscription plan is no longer required.Using AI Mode for agentic restaurant…
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What you need to knowSpotify announces that its Page Match feature, which sync audiobooks with physical copies, expands its language support with 30 new additions.The company’s partnership with Bookshop.org finally arrives in the U.S. and U.K. for Android users, leaving iOS users to wait until “next week.”Spotify first launched Page Match and debuted its Bookshop.org partnership in February.Spotify is busy this week, as its music side takes a back seat to its Audiobook and physical book sales.A blog post sees Spotify’s global head of audiobooks, Owen Smith, hype up the update this week, stating, “These updates demonstrate our continued ambition…
Broadcom has announced VMware Tanzu Platform agent foundations, introducing a secure-by-default agentic runtime designed to accelerate the delivery of autonomous AI applications. By extending the trusted code-to-production simplicity of Tanzu Platform to AI agents, Broadcom is enabling enterprise developers to move beyond siloed AI experiments and into scalable, governed production on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). From experimental AI to enterprise reality As AI agents begin to handle both software execution and autonomous decision-making, they require levels of governance and operational control that traditional platforms lack. Too often, organizations are forced to build AI projects in isolated environments that fail to…
Dark solar panels turn desert heat into rain clouds, not just electricityA 20 square kilometer solar farm produces more rain than a year of cloud seedingThe Persian Gulf’s moist winds are what the desert solar needs to make rainIn the United Arab Emirates, where water is more valuable than oil, new research suggests large solar farms could trigger their own rainstorms.A modelling study led by climate scientist Oliver Branch at the University of Hohenheim found dark solar panels absorb more heat than the surrounding reflective desert sand.This temperature difference drives updrafts that can lead to rain, potentially providing water for…
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Google just announced the deprecation of Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) and is officially moving its legacy capabilities into AI Max. Starting in September, eligible campaigns using Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), automatically created assets (ACA), and campaign-level broad match settings will automatically upgrade to AI Max. While advertisers have speculated about this change for months, the update is now official. If you’re running Dynamic Search Ads, automatically created assets (ACA), and/or campaign-level broad match settings, keep reading to understand how your campaigns will be affected. DSA Features Migrating Into AI Max Beginning in September, advertisers will no longer be able to…
Like probably most people, ChatGPT was the first AI chatbot I used. It wasn’t until the last couple of years that I actually gave its competitors a fair shot, and Gemini ended up surprising me the most. It’s heaps better than other tools for real-time data, and because I’m already deep in the Google ecosystem anyway, the integration just made sense. So at some point, it just became one of my daily drivers, and I started exploring what it could do beyond just answering questions. That’s when I came across the Canvas feature. It’s a little embarrassing how long it…
A digitally signed adware tool has deployed payloads running with SYSTEM privileges that disabled antivirus protections on thousands of endpoints, some in the educational, utilities, government, and healthcare sectors. In a single day, researchers observed more than 23,500 infected hosts in 124 countries trying to connect to the operator’s infrastructure, with hundreds of infected endpoints present in high-value networks. More than just adware Security researchers at managed security company Huntress discovered the campaign on March 22, when signed executables viewed as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) triggered alerts in multiple managed environments. PUPs, or adware, are regarded more as a nuissance than malicious, as…
EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years, Shihab-Eldin—a dual American-Kuwaiti citizen—was arrested in Kuwait on March 3 while visiting family. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported yesterday that it is believed he has been charged with spreading false information, harming national security, and misusing his mobile phone. According to the Guardian, Shihab-Eldin published footage of a U.S. Air Force F-15 E Strike Eagle crash, and posted to his Substack about the incident, noting that video circulating online showed local residents…
There’s a lot of conjecture out there about how to show up in ChatGPT results, but if you want advice from a practitioner who’s actually done it, keep reading.