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Thursday, 20 August 2026

Google’s AI coding agent just escaped its own IDE

The New Stack 1 month ago 34

Google is expanding its Antigravity AI coding agent from a standalone desktop app into developer workflows via IDE extensions and Gemini Enterprise access. The Visual Studio Code extension is available now via Microsoft’s extension marketplace, while the JetBrains support starts with version 2026.2.1. Antigravity sessions can run inside VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, and Zed while staying under enterprise IAM and project-level monthly token quotas.

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

TechCrunch 1 month ago 39

Google is expanding its Preferred Sources feature by letting publishers embed a “favorite source” button on their sites that readers can use to highlight the publisher across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. In May, Google said people selected over 345,000 unique sources through this method, and it reported clicks are twice as likely when a preferred source is available. Publishers can now add this interactive button and potentially regain traffic as readers also get upcoming options to tune their Discover feed and Google News audio briefings in their own words.

Google and the UK think changing flights paths could cut down on climate change

Fortune 20 ● 3 sources

Google and the UK-backed airspace trial will instruct hundreds of flights over the northeastern Atlantic to use small altitude changes to avoid contrail formation over the next two winters. The 30-month Operation Blue Skies program will run test periods during this winter and next, with some flights deviating up to 2,000 feet (610 meters). This expands contrail-reduction testing from individual airlines to a whole airspace corridor, aiming to demonstrate lower contrails through coordinated reroutes and provide a blueprint for other corridors.

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