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Google Flow brings AI directly into the filmmaking process. Its standout feature is AI-assisted storyboarding, which turns text prompts or reference material into detailed visual plans. Creators can define elements such as colour palettes and visual styles so the output matches their own look.

NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook 2.0, and the new name arrives with a bundle of updates for research, productivity and collaboration. The standout feature is secure cloud computing: every notebook runs inside its own protected environment. Advanced data analysis and a Collections feature for organising notebooks round out the release, as summarised by World of AI.

Data centers now drive more new US investment than any other project, and Axios calls them the political subplot of the 2026 election year. The five largest hyperscalers, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle, are set to spend more than 750 billion dollars in capex this year, up 67 percent from last year, with roughly three quarters earmarked for AI infrastructure.

As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews.

Google’s Gemini 4 represents the next step in the company’s AI development, with its pre-training phase confirmed to have started. Announced during Alphabet’s Q2 earnings call, this model is expected to expand on prior advancements, such as incorporating multimodal capabilities or increasing context window sizes.

World of AI has shared an in-depth disclosure on some of the most intriguing developments in artificial intelligence, including leaks about Google’s Gemini 4.0 and the unveiling of DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision. One standout detail is DeepSeek V4’s grayscale testing for an experimental checkpoint, which hints at the potential evolution toward DeepSeek V5. This model […] The post Google Confirms Gemini 4 Replaces Gemini 3.5 Pro Entirely appeared first on Geek…

On Hacker News, the community is debating whether the circular cash flows between Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta pose a systemic risk to the global economy. The thread asks for concrete evidence of a stock market bubble in AI and whether such financial entanglements should be regulated or banned. Engagement so far is low, with only a handful of points and comments.

Anthropic has announced a bold shift in strategy by developing custom silicon chips for its Claude AI models, moving away from reliance on external providers like Google and NVIDIA. This decision aligns with a broader industry trend where proprietary hardware is seen as essential for optimizing performance and reducing costs.

Google will let you customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The feature rolls out in the Google app in the coming days and sits in the three-dot menu on the feed. Tapping it opens a chatbot-style interface where you describe your preferences; the bot confirms them and lays out the content types it will prioritize, with the option to add more detail if it gets things wrong.

Google's new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home is meant to teach a smart home which pets live there, so Nest cameras can report which animal they saw instead of just flagging that an animal appeared. The Verge tried it to cut the constant stream of camera notifications down to the ones that matter. In practice the feature failed to tell the cats apart reliably, which undercuts the point of the recognition.

bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines' treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.

Google is making the visible watermark on AI-generated content optional. A new Media watermark setting in Gemini and in Google's video generator Flow lets you switch off the sparkle mark that Nano Banana and the Omni models place in the bottom-right corner.

Google DeepMind and OpenAI have unveiled two significant updates in the AI landscape: Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Ultra-Fast Mode. According to Universe of AI, Gemini 3.7 Flash builds on its predecessor with a notable 43.6% code quality success rate and excels in tasks like long video understanding, where it outperforms comparable models.

A wave of senior OpenAI executives has left within a month, including Sam Altman's closest deputy, a longtime chief operating officer and the chief revenue officer, as the company retools its leadership ahead of an expected IPO. Axios reports that co-founder Greg Brockman is getting more involved at every level to build a team he hopes will push OpenAI past Anthropic in enterprise adoption.

Google plans to replace Assistant on Android with Gemini, but for many users the new assistant does not work as a full substitute. A ZDNET report presents Dicio as a free alternative that covers core Assistant functions while limiting how personal data is handled. That could appeal to users who want more control over their voice assistant.

Google is restructuring its AI leadership: chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving to start his own company. DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day to day operations to focus on longer-term research. The changes land at a moment when Google is under pressure over its position in the AI race.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders argue that the US should nationalize OpenAI and Anthropic if the financial markets reject them. Both labs were founded on the claim that they could develop AI in humanity's interest under safe conditions. According to the authors, market and investor incentives have steadily displaced that mission.

For the 14th time, a Google product has passed 1 billion users. CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people use Gemini every month, making it Google's fastest-growing product ever. Google was not first, though: OpenAI hit the mark weeks earlier and buried the news in an August 6th blog post about how people use AI.

Google has reportedly reworked its home page so that the classic search button gives way to several AI features. Details on the implementation, the rollout and which accounts are affected are unclear, with a Futurism report as the only source. If confirmed, the change pushes the first contact with search further toward conversational AI and turns the home page into a visible product switchboard.

Major legal battles over child safety are playing out against Meta in courts across the US, and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about how much responsibility social media companies carry for their youngest users. Meanwhile more key executives have left Google as it battles OpenAI and Anthropic for AI dominance.

An open letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs, mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, points to a dangerous moment in AI development. Stuart Russell uses it to counter the widespread view that catastrophic AI risk is science fiction and a fringe position. The letter shows the concern comes from the people building the technology every day.

Alibaba Labs released Qwen 3.8 Max, adding a new dynamic to its competition with proprietary models such as Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Pro. The model is cited at 2.4 trillion parameters with notable cost efficiency, processing input tokens at $2 per million. That pushes price per token, not just raw benchmark performance, to the center of the comparison.

Google has published a teaser for the Pixel Watch 5, set to launch on August 12, 2026. Positioned as a direct Apple Watch competitor, the device leans on software innovation rather than new hardware. At the center of the announcement is Gemini, an AI feature suite meant to shape how the watch is used. Whether that is enough to pull Apple users across will become clear at launch.

After months of talks with tech industry leaders, the Trump administration has finalized a framework for testing new AI models for safety and cybersecurity risks. Staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft reviewed it in a private meeting at the White House.

DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can predict hurricanes earlier and more accurately than existing approaches, forecasting both a storm's track and its intensity. It does so using lower-resolution weather data than conventional models require. DeepMind plans to open-source the model, which would widen access to high-quality forecasting for weather services and research groups.

Google announced its largest AI reorganization yet and publicly presented a unified front, focusing its messaging on how the changes set up future success. The long list of executive changes likely signals deeper issues inside Google's AI organization: a tenuous position in the AI race, DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis' preference for longer-term research over short-term product shipping, and internal tensions that have been building for a while.

Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind in a leadership overhaul of the UK-based research lab. The Nobel laureate becomes chair of DeepMind and takes on a new role as chief scientist at Alphabet. Chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead the lab as senior vice president.

Google's stock fell after Demis Hassabis stepped back from his AI leadership role, as reported by the Washington Post. Hassabis shaped Google's response to the rise of ChatGPT and made DeepMind central to the company's strategy. He will now focus on developing AI for scientific breakthroughs.

Google is reorganising its AI leadership. Demis Hassabis becomes chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist at Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, previously DeepMind's CTO, steps up as Google's SVP of DeepMind and reports directly to Sundar Pichai, keeping his role as chief AI architect.

Shopify says AI search is not cannibalising store traffic the way it has for publishers. AI-driven visits and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in the second quarter. For merchants, AI search currently acts as an additional channel alongside Google rather than a replacement for it.

Google's AI told users that cameras from surveillance vendor Flock are filled with valuable gold and copper, according to Futurism. The claim circulated as an example of an obviously false AI answer and appears to stem from a mix-up or an invented inference. The cameras contain no such materials.

Google will remove access to Google Assistant on Android phones and tablets starting 4 September. Paired devices such as smartwatches and headphones are affected too, according to an email apparently sent to some users and reported by 9to5Google. Gemini takes over as the default assistant.

SpaceX more than tripled its AI revenue to 2.6 billion dollars according to its quarterly figures, mostly through deals supplying compute to other AI companies. The AI division, which SpaceX describes in its filings as the main source of its value, lost 1.5 billion dollars in the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier. A compute deal with Anthropic followed in May and one with Google in June.

A single text prompt is now enough to generate reality-warping scenes from Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery. Digital Digging's Henk van Ess produced images showing supposed refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater beside a hospital in Gaza. Google points to SynthID, the digital watermark embedded in every Nano Banana image, which the Gemini app or Lens in Search can detect.

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics model can control entire humanoid robots. While the previous model focused on the upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 supports whole-body motions from feet to fingertips, letting robots walk, crouch, stretch and manipulate objects. Videos show Apptronik's Apollo 2 bending over to pick up a watering can and taking specific items off a shelf.

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them, driven by AI-assisted vulnerability discovery surfacing far more issues than traditional methods. Google is ramping up its patching schedule to keep pace, which means users need to restart their browser more often for fixes to take effect.

NotebookLM 2.0 introduces a new approach to digital productivity by expanding its capabilities beyond summarization to include advanced research, data analysis and workflow management. With the integration of Google’s Gemini 3.5 model and the structured “antigravity” framework, the platform supports tasks such as automating multi-step processes, generating detailed reports and organizing complex projects.

Siri and Google Gemini now compete head-to-head as personal assistants, each with distinct strengths. A video by Stephen Robles compares them on speed, contextual understanding and how they handle more complex requests. Results vary by task and there is no clear overall winner.

Some ‘private’ chats and docs are showing up on search engines. Here’s how to protect yours Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some of their conversations may be discoverable on search engines like Google and Bing. The revelation is raising questions about how much control people actually have over what they share online.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union gave Google a slap on the wrist for anti-competitive behavior.

A report by European nonprofit AI Forensics found that seven of the nine top image editing models hosted on Hugging Face readily complied with simple prompts to undress women. Mainstream models like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT block such requests, but comparable guardrails are largely missing on the open models tested.

Daniel, a product owner based in Romania, built ApplyAssists after a year of job hunting in which ATS-focused AI resume builders produced nothing but rejections. Instead of optimizing for templates and keyword scores, the tool applies the Google XYZ formula popularized by ex-Google recruiter Farah Sharghi, backed by eye-tracking research suggesting recruiters spend only about 6 seconds per resume.

Google and the web had a deal for years: Google indexes pages, and websites get oceans of traffic in return. That deal now looks dead, and the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when Google traffic dries up. On the Vergecast, David and Nilay discuss the week's Google Zero news, including Reddit's interest in exiting an AI training deal and publishers weighing whether to block Google's crawlers entirely.

Poor morale at Google DeepMind is contributing to delayed model releases, according to half a dozen current and former employees. Gemini 3.5 Pro, the lab's most powerful model in the works, is months behind schedule, while Google has instead shipped a series of smaller, more efficient models to mixed reactions.

Whether orbital data centres will ever host the largest LLMs remains contested, but language models are already proving useful in space. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Google's Gemma 3 into orbit, achieving the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model analysing imagery from a satellite's own sensor.

Samsung used its latest Galaxy Unpacked event to introduce AI-powered smart glasses built together with eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The glasses run Samsung's Gemini Intelligence system and handle hands-free tasks such as managing schedules and making reservations. Samsung is emphasizing lightweight design and tight integration with its Galaxy phone and wearable ecosystem.

Meta has introduced Content Seal, an invisible watermark that flags images generated by its new Muse models. The launch was buried as a footnote in the announcement of its image and video generation tools. Meta's Oversight Board had called on the company back in March to deploy its own tools against deceptive AI content.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could be closer than many anticipated, according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Speaking on the timeline for AGI’s development, Hassabis suggested that this new technology might emerge within the next three to five years, carrying the potential to reshape industries, economies and society itself.

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like Australia Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese took a trip back in time during his much anticipated speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday. Seeking to harness the momentous change bearing down on our lives, the prime minister told an audience at the University of Sydney that…

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’ A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been…

Google DeepMind’s recent revelation outlines a potential timeline for the evolution from Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), emphasizing the fantastic nature of this progression. According to AI Grid, AGI, defined as an AI system capable of performing any intellectual task a human can, could realistically be achieved within the next decade.

- Google is adding a My Ad Center disclosure showing whether an ad was created or edited with AI. The label appears under the „how this ad was made“ section for ads on Search, Discover, and YouTube. - Users can open the panel through the three-dot menu or info button on an ad.

- Google is adding a disclosure in My Ad Center that tells users whether an ad was created or edited with AI. The panel is reachable through the three-dot menu or info icon on ads across Google Search, YouTube, and Discover. - Ads made with Google’s own generative ad tools will get the disclosure automatically.

- Meta is turning AI into a direct paid developer business for the first time: Muse Spark 1.1 will run through the new Meta Model API for coding, agentic and multimodal workflows. - Zuckerberg is leading with price. Reported pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, below flagship offers from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.

- Microsoft’s 2026 environmental report shows the cost of the AI buildout: total greenhouse gas emissions rose 25% in fiscal 2025, mainly due to new data-center infrastructure and a shift in electricity procurement. - The sharpest signal is purchased-electricity emissions: reported figures jumped 945%, while electricity use rose 24%.

- Google and Amazon are reporting rising emissions despite net-zero pledges: The Guardian cites Google up 25 percent year over year and Amazon up 16 percent. - Microsoft had already reported a 23 percent rise versus its 2020 baseline in 2025; Meta showed a 64 percent year-over-year jump despite its 2030 target.

- NotebookLM is adding short vertical video summaries: users can upload PDFs, lecture notes or articles and turn them into 60-second study clips. - According to Geeky Gadgets, the feature uses Nano Gemini 2 Light, a model based on the Gemini 3.1 framework, to compress dense learning material into visual recaps. - Access is initially limited to English-speaking Ultra and Pro subscribers aged 18 and older.

- Google AI Studio 3.0 is presented as a free browser-based builder for full-stack AI apps, combining prompts, UI edits, asset generation and deployment in one workflow. - The suggested use cases are internal dashboards, CRM tools, file organizers and expense trackers, especially for teams already living in Google Sheets, Drive and Workspace.

- Google is promoting Workspace with a new ad that imagines the US founding fathers drafting the Declaration of Independence using Google Docs, Meet, and Gemini. - In the spot, Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson about the draft; Jefferson photographs the text, uses AI to turn it into a Google Doc, and Franklin and Adams edit in suggestion mode.

- Guardian readers respond to a profile of Iason Gabriel, philosopher and research scientist at Google DeepMind. The main critique: AI ethics may be taken seriously by some builders, but capital, expected returns and geopolitical competition may already be setting the path. - One letter reframes Roko’s Basilisk: the real pressure is not a future superintelligence, but today’s competition logic.

- Bhavin Turakhia is putting $30 million of his own money into Neo, his fifth venture after Directi, Radix, Titan, and Zeta. - Neo is pitched as an AI-native workplace suite, not just Microsoft Office or Google Apps with another chatbot bolted on. - The product combines project management, documents, file storage, and AI; it has been used internally since April across Turakhia’s companies, including Zeta.

- Meta is reportedly planning a cloud infrastructure business called Meta Compute, selling access to AI compute and potentially hosted models. - That would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, while following SpaceX/xAI’s move to lease excess data center capacity to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI.

- Google’s new Google Home Speaker is its first smart speaker in six years: $99.99, compact, good-looking, solid sound for its size, with Matter controller and Thread border router support. - The hardware is the stronger part of the product. The speaker hears commands well, fits into rooms easily, and can pair with the Google TV Streamer, though its bass and overall audio trail larger speakers.

- Google is adding short vertical Video Overviews to NotebookLM: 60-second clips with AI-generated visuals and narration based on the sources inside a notebook. - The rollout starts for Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. Users can generate clips from NotebookLM’s Studio panel by choosing Video, Short, and a topic.

- Emily Bender tells IEEE Spectrum that „stochastic parrots“ was never meant as a label for all AI, but specifically for large language models that generate synthetic text. - She says the metaphor was not an insult. It describes systems that produce fluent language patterns without understanding meaning themselves.

- MIT Technology Review frames Zurich as a dense R&D hub where Apple, Anthropic, Disney Research, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI all maintain research teams or labs. - The point is concentration, not scale: just over 400,000 residents, proximity to ETH Zurich, and deep talent in AI, computer vision, graphics, robotics and systems engineering.

- Engadget explains how Android users can replace Gemini with Google Assistant again if Gemini feels too slow, misunderstands commands or performs poorly for smart home control. - The default route is through Settings, Apps, Assistant and the „Digital assistants from Google“ section, where users can pick Google Assistant instead of Gemini and confirm the change.

- Axios reports that the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5. The model has been offline for 15 days after government security concerns. - One source says the limits could be lifted as soon as next week. Talks are expected to continue over the weekend, and Anthropic reportedly expects access to return soon.

- Antigravity 2.0 splits the product into four parts: a desktop app for agent orchestration, an IDE for coding, a CLI for terminal workflows and an SDK for custom integrations. - The new desktop app becomes the hub for scheduling, parallel sub-agents and complex agent runs. The IDE still exists, but now as a separate download.

- OpenAI is working with Broadcom on Jalapeño, a custom inference chip, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in the push to reduce reliance on Nvidia. - The point is not a clean break from Nvidia. It is a hedge against single-supplier risk around pricing, supply, priority access, and product roadmaps.

- Google pitches three of its own AI tools for job hunting: Career Dreamer for role ideas, NotebookLM for resumes and cover letters, and Gemini Live for interview practice. - Career Dreamer is framed as a way to turn interests and past experience into possible career paths. It is more orientation aid than real job search engine.

- A Hacker News post asks for the current least-worst AI tool for front-end design and names Google Stitch, Claude Code, and Lovable as typical options. - The framing is openly skeptical: there are many choices, but the poster says they have all been awful in practice. This is about damage control, not hype.

- The Verge calls the $99 Google Fitbit Air one of the better attempts to pair a simple fitness tracker with an optional AI health coach. - The hardware is praised for being light, comfortable, long-lasting, and strong on basics like steps, resting heart rate, sleep, HRV, blood oxygen, readiness, and cardio load.

- Sony marketed the Xperia 1 VIII’s AI Camera Assistant as a scene-aware helper. In The Verge’s testing, it behaved more like an aggressive filter machine: boosted saturation, warmer white balance, heavy contrast, and occasional fake bokeh. - Unlike Google’s Camera Coach, Sony’s assistant does not explain framing, focus, or lens choice.

- A sixth-grader in Brooklyn was asked to get feedback on a science experiment from Google Gemini. His mother, Kelly Clancy, later founded Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces and is pushing for a two-year AI moratorium in New York City public schools. - In Bend, Oregon, more than 1,100 parents signed a petition to remove generative AI from student devices.

- Google is adding a memory feature to NotebookLM that can retain past interactions inside the platform, so research projects keep more context across sessions. - According to Geeky Gadgets, this memory runs separately from other Google services. NotebookLM should not pull from Gmail, Drive, or other Google data just because the feature is enabled.

- The Guardian frames Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI as an angry, entertaining critique of the economics behind the AI boom, not a simple anti-technology rant. - Doctorow’s key image is the reverse centaur: humans are not empowered by machines, but reduced to checkers, clickworkers and error catchers for systems designed to cut costs.

- The Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner identified four music datasets used for AI training and made them publicly searchable through AI Watchdog. - Two datasets are massive, with about 12 million and 9 million tracks. Two smaller ones still contain more than 100,000 songs each.

- Futurism reports that Google AI Overviews described SCP entries such as SCP-565 as real anomalies instead of clearly labeling them as horror fan fiction from the SCP Foundation. - For SCP-426, the overview even adopted the fictional toaster story’s first-person gimmick and presented invented victim accounts as if they were real events.

- Google released Android 17 on June 16, initially for most supported Pixel devices. Wear OS 7 is rolling out alongside it for eligible Pixel Watches. - The core Android changes focus on multitasking: App Bubbles, a Bubble Bar for larger screens, and interactive Picture-in-Picture in desktop environments.

- AWS is adding Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family to Amazon Bedrock: three instruction-tuned Apache 2.0 open-weight models named Gemma 4 31B, 26B-A4B, and E2B. - All three variants support text and image input, built-in reasoning mode, and native function calling. The larger 31B and 26B-A4B models offer context windows up to 256K tokens.

- Google plans to invest another $1.5 billion in 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. - The site has operated since 2019 on a repurposed former coal plant and supports Google’s digital services and AI infrastructure needs. - Google says it will cover 100% of its own power and infrastructure costs.

- Geeky Gadgets frames GPT-6 as OpenAI’s attempt to regain momentum after Microsoft and Google allegedly shift more work to their own AI stacks. Microsoft is tied to Polaris, while Google is linked with Apple’s Gemini plans for Siri. - The article highlights larger context windows, redesigned reward pipelines and stronger long-term memory as the main GPT-6 promises.

- Apple is adding serious native AI photo editing to iPhone for the first time in the iOS 27 developer beta, with Clean Up, Extend, and Spatial Reframing. - Clean Up is much better now because it can use cloud models instead of relying only on device-side AI, making object and blemish removal more convincing.

- At Tribeca 2026, the stronger AI films did not look like prompt demos. They looked like conventional productions using custom models as one tool in the pipeline. - Dear Upstairs Neighbors was made with Google DeepMind: Yingzong Xin’s concept art helped tune custom Veo and Imagen builds toward a consistent visual style.

Google’s latest AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, has surfaced through an unexpected leak, revealing both its strengths and notable shortcomings. According to Universe of AI, the model struggles in key areas such as advanced reasoning, coding capabilities and long-term task execution, placing it behind competitors like Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. For example, its […] The post Leaked Gemini 3.5 Pro Details Reveal Why Google is Falling Behind AI Riv…

Google I/O 2026 delivered a mix of excitement and disappointment for smart home enthusiasts. While the event showcased significant advancements, such as the introduction of the Gemini AI Assistant with multi-step command capabilities and expanded language support, it also left a notable gap in its lineup.

An Australian university vice-chancellor admitted using AI to write an opinion piece for a major masthead without disclosing it beforehand, highlighting the growing gap between AI use and trust in the technology. New Roy Morgan data shows 13.6m people (58% of those over 14) now use AI monthly, led by ChatGPT, followed by Gemini and Copilot.

Even for nonbelievers, the pope has become a reassuring — and all too rare — voice of moral clarity. Remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? 'Don't be evil' was Google's unofficial motto, and Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook was built to accomplish a social mission.

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact — by actually increasing water access for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post, including a goal to replenish more water than it uses at its data centers by 2030. Google also said it will invest in local water infrastructure, identify alternative wa…

Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’ Business live – latest updates Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to train Google’s AI models and power its search summaries, the UK competition watchdog has announced as it imposes new conduct requirements on search services. “Publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to pow…

One of largest equity fundraisings ever includes $10bn share sale to US investment group Berkshire Hathaway Business live – latest updates Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has said it plans to raise up to $80bn (£59bn) in equity to fund its vast artificial intelligence infrastructure investments, raising further questions over the economics of the AI boom. The move, one of the largest equity fundraisings ever, includes a $10bn share sale to the US inv…

Google’s latest AI upgrade, Gemini 3.5 Flash, introduces advanced capabilities aimed at improving productivity and tackling complex workflows. Key features include multimodal vision for detailed image analysis, native video understanding with timestamped insights and expanded token limits for processing large datasets.

The recent release of Gemini 3.5 Flash has sparked widespread discussion in the AI community, particularly due to its unexpected performance edge over the higher-tier Opus 4.7 model. As highlighted by Universe of AI, this mid-tier model has demonstrated faster response times, cleaner outputs and improved adherence to user prompts, challenging traditional assumptions about AI […] The post Why Google’s Mid-Tier Gemini 3.5 Flash is Beating Top AI Models ap…

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro and Xiaomi’s MiMO 2.5 represent significant updates in AI technology, addressing both performance and accessibility. As noted by World of AI, Gemini 3.5 Pro introduces the “X-High” reasoning variant, which enhances the system’s ability to tackle complex, multi-step problems with improved contextual awareness.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says true AGI is still decades away, framing it as a long-term objective. He highlights the gap between current AI systems and the adaptable, human-like intelligence needed for AGI. The detailed update outlines where progress is being made and which limitations are likely to take years to overcome.

According to a report, Apple plans to lean fully on on-device AI models at the upcoming WWDC, with help from Google Gemini behind the scenes. The keynote is expected to showcase Apple Silicon's AI capabilities, positioning local inference as Apple's answer to cloud-based AI from OpenAI and Google. The pitch: better privacy and lower latency without sacrificing capability.

In a post-Google-I/O Decoder interview, Sundar Pichai talks about the new Gemini models, AI agents shipping into almost every product, and the deep changes happening in Search and YouTube. He openly admits that ChatGPT forced him to restructure Google several years ago. The underlying question: what happens to the web when the entry point to search becomes an AI answer?

Google's new Gemini any-to-any model creates surprisingly realistic videos from any input — text, image, or video. The Verge tested it by deepfaking a kid's stuffed deer onto vacation adventures, finding the tools require minimal effort yet produce convincing results. It raises real questions about where harmless generative-AI fun ends and full-blown AI slop begins.