Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026
… The Finance website is also gaining a new AI-powered research tool that can send you periodic updates. …
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Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity come to Google NotebookLM
… Gemini 3.5 and the other improvements are coming first to AI Ultra subscribers, as well as Workspace business customers with AI Ultra Access and AI Expanded Access. Other Google accounts will see the updates in the near future. …
Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense
… Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out across a wide range of Google products starting today, and Google again claims this model is even better than its last-gen Pro model. That has been a trend with Google’s tick-tock model updates over the past year, but the team says this release is special. …
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
… That would help explain the high prices, and the ongoing AI-driven component price increases can’t be helping either. …
Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
… But Google’s aborted attempt to incorporate its Nano Banana 2 AI image generator as a Google Earth feature made it even easier for anyone to create modified versions of authentic imagery depicting real locations—something that Google boasted about when initially promoting the new feature. “For the … …
Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle
… Yelp applauds Google DMA fine Although Google is cooperating with the EC, the company is clearly upset about required changes that it claims degrade its popular products just to satisfy “a small group of self-serving complainants.” “To comply, we are having to strip away real-time Search features E… …
Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more
… On the other hand, SynthID is deeply integrated with AI-generated content. The digital watermark is present in the pixels of images and videos and in the waveform of AI songs and audio overviews from products like NotebookLM. …
Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
… The company’s latest sustainability report acknowledges that Google’s total electricity usage has increased by more than 250 percent since 2019, which the company attributed to ongoing growth in Google Cloud, YouTube video streaming, and data center construction and operations supporting various AI… …
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
… Engelmayer said that at this early stage, Reddit has plausibly pleaded that there was a conspiracy, with SerpApi providing a product to circumvent Google access controls and Perplexity AI paying for it. …
Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
… It also has a ton of AI. 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 just don’t tap any of the buttons with the AI sparkles on them, but that’s getting harder. …