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This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.

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If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it,

Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app.

Should you prompt an AI model to generate prompt ideas for other AI models? That's exactly what a Google DeepMind engineer does, and here's why.

Mixboard is Google's experimental AI-powered idea and planning board. Now, it's leveraging Nano Banana Pro to turn your thoughts into rich visual presentations.

OpenAI is old news — there are three things about Google's Gemini 3 rollout that have me convinced it can come out on top of the AI race.