devtake.dev — GoogleArticles on devtake.dev covering Google.https://devtake.dev/en-usGemini Intelligence turns Android 17 into an agent that drives your appshttps://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-intelligence-android-17/https://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-intelligence-android-17/Google's Android Show pitched Gemini Intelligence and AppFunctions, an MCP-style way for the assistant to call inside your apps. Here's how it works and what to watch.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMTandroidgeminiandroidai-agentsllmgoogleagentsnaomi-parkClaude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first public Mythos-class model. It tops SWE-Bench Pro at 80.3%.https://devtake.dev/article/claude-fable-5-launch/https://devtake.dev/article/claude-fable-5-launch/Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro and ships on Bedrock and Copilot at $10/$50 per million tokens, free on paid plans only through June 22.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:55:00 GMTaiai-modelsanthropicclaudeclaude-mythosbenchmarksllmagentic-codingdieter-morelliApple rebuilt Siri on Google's Gemini and is paying $1 billion a year for ithttps://devtake.dev/article/apple-siri-gemini-wwdc-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/apple-siri-gemini-wwdc-2026/At WWDC 2026 Apple shipped Siri AI, rebuilt on a custom Google Gemini model running on its own servers. Here are the catches behind the demo.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:30:00 GMTapplesiriapple-intelligencewwdcgeminigoogleios-27tim-cookmark-gurmannaomi-parkGitHub banned the researcher dropping Windows zero-days. The code was already mirrored everywhere.https://devtake.dev/article/github-bans-researcher-windows-zero-day/https://devtake.dev/article/github-bans-researcher-windows-zero-day/GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?Fri, 29 May 2026 06:50:00 GMTsecuritysecuritygithubvulnerability-disclosurezero-daymicrosoftwindowssupply-chainrceluca-reinhardtGoogle said people love AI search. DuckDuckGo's installs jumped 30% the next week.https://devtake.dev/article/duckduckgo-installs-surge-google-ai-search/https://devtake.dev/article/duckduckgo-installs-surge-google-ai-search/DuckDuckGo's US downloads climbed about 30% and its no-AI search page saw 28% more visits the week after Google's I/O push. The backlash is now measurable.Wed, 27 May 2026 19:20:00 GMTwebduckduckgogoogleai-searchprivacysearch-enginesgeminiwebnaomi-parkApple is testing an anti-snatch feature that locks the iPhone the second it's grabbedhttps://devtake.dev/article/apple-iphone-anti-snatching-auto-lock/https://devtake.dev/article/apple-iphone-anti-snatching-auto-lock/Code seen by 9to5Mac points to an iPhone feature that auto-locks when the accelerometer detects a snatch, then clamps down like Stolen Device Protection.Wed, 27 May 2026 18:20:00 GMTappleappleiphoneios-27securitystolen-device-protectiontheftnaomi-parkApple is opening AirPlay's slot in iOS 27. Google Cast can become the default on EU iPhones.https://devtake.dev/article/ios-27-google-cast-third-party-streaming/https://devtake.dev/article/ios-27-google-cast-third-party-streaming/Mark Gurman's Sunday Power On says iOS 27 will let users pick Google Cast or another protocol over AirPlay for system-level streaming, to satisfy the EU DMA.Mon, 25 May 2026 11:45:00 GMTappleappleios-27airplaygoogle-casteudmaregulationstreamingnaomi-parkDeepSeek locked in the 75% V4-Pro cut. The API now undercuts every Western frontier model.https://devtake.dev/article/deepseek-v4-pro-price-cut-permanent/https://devtake.dev/article/deepseek-v4-pro-price-cut-permanent/On May 23 DeepSeek told customers the V4-Pro discount becomes its standard price after May 31. Output drops from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens.Sun, 24 May 2026 10:30:00 GMTaideepseekai-modelsllmanthropicopenaigeminiai-chipschinadieter-morelliFirst-gen Chromecasts are vanishing from streaming apps. Google won't say if it's a fix or a quiet EOL.https://devtake.dev/article/chromecast-1st-gen-cast-targets-vanishing/https://devtake.dev/article/chromecast-1st-gen-cast-targets-vanishing/YouTube, HBO Max, and others stopped listing the 2013 Chromecast as a cast target. Google EOL'd the hardware in 2023 and isn't commenting.Thu, 21 May 2026 11:00:00 GMTwebgooglechromecasteolstreaminghardware-eolcastingyoutubehbo-maxnaomi-parkGoogle and Samsung set Fall 2026 for Android XR glasses. Gentle Monster and Warby Parker are doing the frames.https://devtake.dev/article/android-xr-glasses-samsung-fall-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/android-xr-glasses-samsung-fall-2026/The Android Show confirmed Fall 2026 for Google and Samsung's first AR glasses, plus three new features for the Galaxy XR headset that launched in October.Wed, 20 May 2026 09:30:00 GMThardwaregooglesamsungandroid-xrgalaxy-xrgeminiar-glasseswearableshardwarehiro-tanakaAnthropic bought Stainless, the startup that builds every official SDK for OpenAI and Google.https://devtake.dev/article/anthropic-acquires-stainless-sdk-toolchain/https://devtake.dev/article/anthropic-acquires-stainless-sdk-toolchain/Anthropic announced May 18 it acquired SDK generator Stainless, reportedly for over $300M. The same toolchain still powers OpenAI's, Google's, and Cloudflare's official clients.Tue, 19 May 2026 09:45:00 GMTaianthropicstainlesssdkmcpclaudeapiagentic-codingdev-toolsdieter-morelliiOS 26.5 brings encrypted texting between iPhone and Android. Group chats and metadata still leak.https://devtake.dev/article/apple-google-encrypted-rcs-rollout/https://devtake.dev/article/apple-google-encrypted-rcs-rollout/Apple and Google began rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS on May 11. The MLS-based encryption rides on GSMA Universal Profile 3.0, but EFF says the rollout leaves real gaps.Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTappleapplegooglercsend-to-end-encryptionimessageios-26privacymlsnaomi-parkNV Energy is cutting off 49,000 Lake Tahoe homes by May 2027. The power is going to AI data centers.https://devtake.dev/article/tahoe-liberty-utility-data-center-power/https://devtake.dev/article/tahoe-liberty-utility-data-center-power/Liberty Utilities serves 49,000 Tahoe customers. NV Energy supplies 75% of that power and is reclaiming it for Northern Nevada data center expansion.Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTpolicypolicydata-centersai-infrastructureenergynv-energyliberty-utilitiescalifornianevadaclara-wexlerGoogle's Magic Pointer turns the cursor into a Gemini prompt. The first Googlebooks ship this fall.https://devtake.dev/article/deepmind-googlebook-magic-pointer/https://devtake.dev/article/deepmind-googlebook-magic-pointer/Google announced Googlebook on May 12: a premium laptop tier above Chromebook, with a Gemini-aware cursor called Magic Pointer. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are in.Wed, 13 May 2026 10:30:00 GMTaigooglegooglebookgeminideepmindchromebookandroidai-assistantlaptopdieter-morelliAirbnb says AI writes 60% of its new code. Nobody has explained what that means.https://devtake.dev/article/airbnb-ai-writes-60-percent-code/https://devtake.dev/article/airbnb-ai-writes-60-percent-code/Brian Chesky dropped the 60% figure on an earnings call without defining how Airbnb measures it. Google claims 75%. The independent average is 27%.Tue, 12 May 2026 10:30:00 GMTaiai-codingairbnbclaude-codeai-agentsdev-toolsgoogleengineeringdieter-morelliApple and Google are bringing hardware attestation to the web. GrapheneOS says it's a monopoly play.https://devtake.dev/article/grapheneos-hardware-attestation-monopoly-enabler/https://devtake.dev/article/grapheneos-hardware-attestation-monopoly-enabler/Google's reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will require a certified iOS or Android device to pass some captchas, even on desktop. GrapheneOS calls the pattern anti-competitive.Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 GMTpolicypolicyregulationgrapheneosplay-integrityapp-attestrecaptchagoogleappleclara-wexlerMicrosoft tested 19 LLMs as document editors. Even the best ones corrupted 25% of the content.https://devtake.dev/article/llms-corrupt-documents-delegation-errors/https://devtake.dev/article/llms-corrupt-documents-delegation-errors/The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 GMTaillmai-modelsbenchmarksmicrosoftdelegationvibe-codingdieter-morelliApple is turning iOS 27 into an AI model marketplace. ChatGPT loses its exclusive slot.https://devtake.dev/article/apple-ios-27-rival-ai-models-choice/https://devtake.dev/article/apple-ios-27-rival-ai-models-choice/Bloomberg reports Apple will let users choose Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT across Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground via a new Extensions framework this fall.Sat, 09 May 2026 07:45:00 GMTappleappleapple-intelligencesiriios-27openaigooglegeminianthropicnaomi-parkDHS used a customs summons to demand a Canadian's Google data over anti-ICE posts. ACLU sued May 4.https://devtake.dev/article/dhs-google-canadian-anti-ice-data-demand/https://devtake.dev/article/dhs-google-canadian-anti-ice-data-demand/ACLU sued in N.D. Cal. to block a 1930s tariff-act subpoena targeting a Canadian who hasn't been to the US since 2015. Google has not said whether it complied.Tue, 05 May 2026 09:30:00 GMTpolicypolicyregulationsurveillancegoogledhsicecivil-libertiesnational-securityclara-wexlerMicrosoft Edge keeps every saved password in cleartext memory. Microsoft calls it 'by design'.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords-memory/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords-memory/A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.Tue, 05 May 2026 08:45:00 GMTsecuritysecuritymicrosoftedgebrowser-securitycredential-theftchromiumpasswordsprivacyluca-reinhardtGitHub Copilot's Claude Opus multiplier jumps to 27x on June 1. Monthly plans dodge the hike.https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-multiplier-hike-june-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-multiplier-hike-june-2026/GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.Mon, 04 May 2026 10:45:00 GMTaigithub-copilotgithubai-agentspricingmicrosoftanthropicclaude-opusdev-toolsdieter-morelliSamsung is building Galaxy Book laptops with Android, not Windows. Three tiers are in the works.https://devtake.dev/article/samsung-galaxy-book-android-one-ui/https://devtake.dev/article/samsung-galaxy-book-android-one-ui/SamMobile reports Samsung is preparing low-end, mid-range, and flagship Galaxy Books on Android 17 One UI 9, timed to Google's Aluminium OS push at I/O 2026.Sun, 03 May 2026 12:30:00 GMTandroidsamsunggalaxy-bookandroidone-uisamsung-dexlaptopaluminium-osgoogle-ionaomi-parkAnthropic is fielding offers at a $900B valuation. The round closes in two weeks and tops OpenAI.https://devtake.dev/article/anthropic-900b-valuation-50b-round/https://devtake.dev/article/anthropic-900b-valuation-50b-round/Preemptive bids put Anthropic at $850B-$900B with a $50B raise. Run rate hit $30B in March, up from $9B at year-end 2025.Sat, 02 May 2026 09:45:00 GMTaianthropicclaudefundingvaluationopenaiai-modelsfinancedieter-morelliAlphabet hit $109.9B in Q1 and is starting to sell TPUs to outside data centershttps://devtake.dev/article/alphabet-q1-2026-tpu-external-sales/https://devtake.dev/article/alphabet-q1-2026-tpu-external-sales/Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.Fri, 01 May 2026 11:05:00 GMTaigooglealphabetgoogle-cloudtpuai-chipsgeminiai-infrastructureq1-earningsdieter-morelliSamsung Q1 profit hit 57.2 trillion won. Memory chips for Nvidia drove 93% of it.https://devtake.dev/article/samsung-q1-2026-record-ai-chip-profit/https://devtake.dev/article/samsung-q1-2026-record-ai-chip-profit/Samsung Electronics posted record Q1 2026 results on April 30: 133.9 trillion won revenue and 57.2 trillion won operating profit. Semiconductors did 93% of the work.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThardwaresamsunghbmai-chipsdramsemiconductornvidiamemoryai-infrastructurehiro-tanakaPixel 11's Tensor G6 leak: brand-new ARM cores paired with a GPU from 2021https://devtake.dev/article/tensor-g6-pixel-11-leak-cpu-gpu/https://devtake.dev/article/tensor-g6-pixel-11-leak-cpu-gpu/Mystic Leaks pegs Tensor G6 with one C1 Ultra at 4.11GHz and six C1-Pro cores. The GPU is the same Imagination CXTP family that's been in the chip for years.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:40:00 GMTandroidgooglepixelpixel-11tensortensor-g6armleakhardwarenaomi-parkMicrosoft and OpenAI just rewrote their deal. Exclusivity is dead, and so is the AGI clause.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-openai-deal-revenue-share-end/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-openai-deal-revenue-share-end/Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTaiopenaimicrosoftai-modelsazurellmai-infrastructureanthropicgpt-5-5dieter-morelliGoogle's Cloud chief just confirmed the deal: Gemini will power the new Siri this yearhttps://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-siri-launch/https://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-siri-launch/At Cloud Next 2026, Thomas Kurian named Apple as a customer and Gemini as the engine behind 'a more personalized Siri coming later this year.' Apple has stayed silent.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:30:00 GMTappleapplesirigooglegeminiapple-intelligencewwdcmark-gurmanios-27naomi-parkMalicious npm and PyPI packages turn dev servers into Chinese LLM proxieshttps://devtake.dev/article/gpt-proxy-npm-supply-chain/https://devtake.dev/article/gpt-proxy-npm-supply-chain/Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:30:00 GMTsecuritysupply-chainnpmpypiai-securitymalwarellmchinacredential-theftluca-reinhardtGoogle is putting up to $40B into Anthropic. That's five days after Amazon's $5B.https://devtake.dev/article/google-anthropic-40b-investment/https://devtake.dev/article/google-anthropic-40b-investment/Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:30:00 GMTaianthropicgooglealphabetclaudeai-infrastructureai-modelsfundingtpudieter-morelliUbuntu 26.04 LTS ships Wayland-only, Rust coreutils, and post-quantum SSH by defaulthttps://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-26-04-lts-release/https://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-26-04-lts-release/Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on April 23. It's the first LTS without X11, ships kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and sets post-quantum SSH on by default.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:30:00 GMTopen-sourceubuntuubuntu-26-04linuxcanonicalltswaylandrust-coreutilspost-quantumsoren-vanekOpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 seven weeks after 5.4. API tokens now cost twice as much.https://devtake.dev/article/openai-gpt-5-5-launch/https://devtake.dev/article/openai-gpt-5-5-launch/OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) on April 23. The API runs at $5/$30 per million tokens, double GPT-5.4, with Pro at $30/$180.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:30:00 GMTaiopenaigpt-5-5chatgptcodexai-modelsapi-pricingllmagentic-aidieter-morelliGoogle splits its AI chip: the TPU 8t trains, the TPU 8i serves, and Axion handles the resthttps://devtake.dev/article/google-tpu-ironwood-axion-launch/https://devtake.dev/article/google-tpu-ironwood-axion-launch/At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThardwaregoogletputpu-8ironwoodaxionai-infrastructurenvidiacloud-nexthiro-tanakaprotobuf.js RCE: a 52M/week npm package was one bad type name from code executionhttps://devtake.dev/article/protobuf-javascript-rce-cve/https://devtake.dev/article/protobuf-javascript-rce-cve/GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg hits protobuf.js ≤8.0.0 / ≤7.5.4. Attacker-controlled schemas executed arbitrary JS on decode. One-line fix patched it.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTsecuritynpmprotobufjavascriptsupply-chainrceendor-labsgrpcluca-reinhardtThe EU's 'replaceable phone batteries by 2027' headline is misleading. Here's the rule.https://devtake.dev/article/eu-replaceable-batteries-2027/https://devtake.dev/article/eu-replaceable-batteries-2027/Article 11 of EU Batteries Regulation 2023/1542 kicks in February 18, 2027. Most flagship phones will dodge user-replaceable batteries through the Ecodesign exemption instead.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:45:00 GMTpolicyeubattery-regulationright-to-repairecodesignsmartphonesapplesamsungfairphoneclara-wexlerNSA is running Anthropic's Mythos. The Pentagon says Anthropic is a supply-chain risk.https://devtake.dev/article/nsa-anthropic-mythos-blacklist/https://devtake.dev/article/nsa-anthropic-mythos-blacklist/Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:30:00 GMTaianthropicclaude-mythosnsapentagoncybersecurityproject-glasswingnational-securitydario-amodeidieter-morelliVercel got breached through a third-party AI tool's OAuth app. Here's what leaked.https://devtake.dev/article/vercel-breach-april-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/vercel-breach-april-2026/A Context.ai compromise let attackers take over a Vercel employee's Google Workspace. Non-sensitive env vars were exposed, and a ShinyHunters persona is asking $2M.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMTsecurityverceldata-breachoauthsupply-chaincontext-aishinyhuntersgoogle-workspaceluca-reinhardtAndroid's Developer Verifier service rolls out this month. Here's the full 2026 sideloading timeline.https://devtake.dev/article/android-developer-verifier-sideloading-rollout/https://devtake.dev/article/android-developer-verifier-sideloading-rollout/Google's Android Developer Verifier is landing in Settings in April 2026. Enforcement starts in four countries in September. Here's what changes, and what 'Advanced Flow' gets you.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMTandroidandroidsideloadinggoogledeveloper-verificationadvanced-flowf-droidobtainiumnaomi-parkAmazon is done with Android on Fire TV. Vega OS is the only future.https://devtake.dev/article/amazon-fire-tv-vega-os-android/https://devtake.dev/article/amazon-fire-tv-vega-os-android/Amazon's new Fire TV Stick HD ships with Vega OS, no sideloading allowed. Sources say every future Fire TV will follow. Here's what changes for users and devs.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThardwareamazonfire-tvvega-osandroidstreamingsmart-tvapp-storeshiro-tanakaApple is sending 200 Siri engineers to an AI coding bootcamp. That tells you everything.https://devtake.dev/article/apple-siri-ai-coding-bootcamp/https://devtake.dev/article/apple-siri-ai-coding-bootcamp/A report from The Information reveals Apple is retraining Siri staff on AI tools like Claude Code. With WWDC two months away, Apple's AI gap has never been more visible.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMTappleapplesiriaiapple-intelligencewwdcgoogle-geminicoding-bootcampnaomi-parkGoogle Gemini finally has a Mac app, and it's gunning for ChatGPT's desktop leadhttps://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-mac-app-desktop/https://devtake.dev/article/google-gemini-mac-app-desktop/Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMTaigooglegeminimacdesktop-appchatgptclaudeai-assistantdieter-morelliGoogle just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stackhttps://devtake.dev/article/google-q-day-2029-post-quantum-deadline/https://devtake.dev/article/google-q-day-2029-post-quantum-deadline/Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMTwebquantum-computingcryptographypost-quantumgooglesecuritytlsluca-reinhardt