Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
…Virtually every Android phone in the world right now ships with the Gemini app and multiple features that guide people toward using the AI. It’s not all due to Google’s…
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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
…This quarter, Huffman took the opportunity to voice concerns and criticisms about Google’s AI Overviews feature, which automatically summarizes search results on most user queries. First, there was a letter to…
Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI
Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays…
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
…Apple is currently suing OpenAI , accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets for its hardware development. Bloomberg’s sources said that OpenAI launched an internal probe on the speaker following Apple…
Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
…using AI to generate nude images of people against their will is appalling. There are plenty of worthy debates to have about AI policy. This is not one of them. AI nudification…
Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
…Notably, Anthropic is deploying a “ nuke it from orbit ” approach, applying the watermarks to all processed content where supported, even though the EU does not require it for cases where an AI…
The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
…David McCall, Figure’s head of design, also appeared briefly on the livestream to give another robot a “Jim” nametag. That particular robot would feature prominently in the Figure team’s next…
Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
…There are hints of Gemini in numerous apps, but that’s also true when you access these products in a browser. The on-device AI features can be mostly ignored if you…
Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM
…Gemma 4 12B is also more efficient thanks to a new approach to multimodality. The Gemma 4 family is natively multimodal, accepting text, audio, or images as inputs. Most gen AI models…
Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag
…This voice-to-text feature is steeped in generative AI. It doesn’t directly transcribe your words, but rather will summarize to clean up repetitions, streamline corrections, and remove the occasional “um…