ABC News ·
US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for.
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Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal ·
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers
An exclusive look at Docs Live, Google's new speech-powered AI project manager and writing partner
Casey Newton / Platformer ·
Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more
Tasks are getting easier to automate
Macy Meyer / CNET ·
Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more
Google Flow's family of products gets agentic updates, mobile apps and the Omni Flash treatment.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap
The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday, Google announced new native Android app creation capabilities …
Wall Street Journal ·
Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes a $5B initial equity commitment
Investment firm to put $5 billion toward venture using Google's chips
Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority ·
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage if they don't add a phone number
Update: Google has confirmed that it's testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail users, unless they add their number.
Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net ·
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues
Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone …
Moneycontrol ·
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable
On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …
Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·
An interview with Google VP for Health and Home Rishi Chandra on shutting down Fit by the end of 2026, Fitbit's rebrand to Google Health, Health Coach, and more
Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year's end. While Fitbit remains very much alive, the rebranded Google Health app …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge ·
Google is rolling out Gemini to cars that have Google built in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US
The current Google Assistant is being replaced with a smarter, more conversational upgrade. … Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant.
Abner Li / 9to5Google ·
Google says the Gemini app can now generate files; supported formats include PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Docs and Sheets, plain text, and Markdown
You can now ask the Gemini app to directly generate "downloadable and ready-to-share files." Google wants you to …
Macy Meyer / CNET ·
Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month
Google's new AI-powered language tool can give you real-time feedback by analyzing speech and correcting your pronunciation.
Jay Peters / The Verge ·
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+
'Ask YouTube' is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg ·
The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are "unwarranted intervention"
Google was targeted by European Union watchdogs who unveiled a slate of proposals aimed at prising open its Android ecosystem to rivals' AI services.
Politico ·
A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend
Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won't be cheap or easy.
Erin Woo / The Information ·
Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents
Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people …
Qianer Liu / The Information ·
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile
Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience.
Bloomberg ·
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue
Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
Abner Li / 9to5Google ·
Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more
Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion from Android and iOS.
Abner Li / 9to5Google ·
Google designates "back button hijacking" as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15
Websites that engage in "back button hijacking" might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
Hayden Field / The Verge ·
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google", which overstates its "run rate by roughly $8B"
OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …
Daniel Tudor / Financial Times ·
Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it
More efficient artificial intelligence could mean even greater need for semiconductors, say experts