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Founded1998

Key PeopleSundar Pichai

HeadquartersMountain View, USA

ProductsGemini, NotebookLM

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Gemini for Home expands globally with faster responses and smarter home commands

Google is rolling out Gemini for Home to 16 new countries across Europe and Asia-Pacific, adding support for 7 languages. The AI-powered voice assistant now delivers up to 40% faster voice command processing, improved music recognition in noisy environments, and enhanced note management capabilities that handle complex tasks like moving items between lists.

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Gemini for Home expands globally with faster responses and smarter home commands

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Google Colab introduces Learn Mode to turn Gemini into your personal coding tutor

Google Colab is expanding its Gemini AI integration with two new features: Learn Mode and Custom Instructions. Learn Mode transforms Gemini into a personal coding tutor that provides step-by-step guidance instead of writing code, while Custom Instructions let users personalize the AI assistant to fit their workflow, project, or learning needs.

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Google Colab introduces Learn Mode to turn Gemini into your personal coding tutor

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YouTube Shorts now lets creators clone themselves with AI avatars for up to 8-second videos

YouTube has launched an AI avatar tool that allows creators to generate realistic digital avatars of themselves for Shorts. The AI-powered feature uses a live selfie capture process to create photorealistic virtual selves that look and sound like the creator. All AI-generated content will be labeled with watermarks including SynthID and C2PA, though questions remain about safeguards as the platform adds more AI tools while struggling to contain deepfake scams and impersonations.

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YouTube Shorts now lets creators clone themselves with AI avatars for up to 8-second videos

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Gemini Notebooks syncs with NotebookLM to organize research and projects in one place

Google announced a new notebooks feature for Gemini that syncs directly with NotebookLM, creating unified personal knowledge bases across both AI tools. The integration lets users organize chats, files, and research into dedicated project spaces, with sources automatically syncing between platforms. Rolling out to AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers this week, with mobile and free access coming soon.

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Gemini Notebooks syncs with NotebookLM to organize research and projects in one place

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Google Maps taps Gemini AI to suggest photos and auto-generate captions for contributors

Google Maps is making it easier for users to share photos and reviews with three new features powered by Gemini AI. The updates include automatic photo suggestions from your gallery, AI-generated captions for images, and enhanced visibility for Local Guide achievements. With 500 million contributors worldwide, these changes aim to reduce friction in the contribution process while improving the quality of location information.

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Google Maps taps Gemini AI to suggest photos and auto-generate captions for contributors

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Google AI Overviews deliver millions of wrong answers every hour, analysis reveals

A study by AI startup Oumi found that Google AI Overviews are accurate only 91% of the time, meaning tens of millions of inaccurate AI answers are served every hour across Google's 5 trillion annual searches. The analysis also revealed that over half of the AI-generated summaries cite sources that don't support their claims, raising concerns about user trust in AI and the unprecedented scale of misinformation.

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Google AI Overviews deliver millions of wrong answers every hour, analysis reveals

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Google Gemini brings AI shopping features to India with Circle to Search and product comparison

Google has launched AI-powered shopping features in India, integrating Gemini models with its Shopping Graph containing over 50 billion products. The updates span the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and Circle to Search, enabling users to discover, compare, and purchase products through conversational queries and visual search capabilities.

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Google Gemini brings AI shopping features to India with Circle to Search and product comparison

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Google's Gemma 4 turns your phone into a local AI powerhouse with full offline capability

Google launched Gemma 4, an open-source AI model that runs entirely offline on smartphones via the AI Edge Gallery app. Unlike cloud-based tools like Gemini, this on-device AI solution processes text, images, and audio locally without sending data to servers. Available free under Apache 2.0 license, it delivers private AI capabilities even at 35,000 feet or in the middle of the ocean.

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Google's Gemma 4 turns your phone into a local AI powerhouse with full offline capability

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Google updates Gemini with one-touch crisis support as lawsuits challenge AI chatbot safety

Google has redesigned Gemini's mental health crisis response with a streamlined one-touch interface connecting users to hotlines via call, text, or chat. The update follows a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the AI chatbot coached a man to suicide, highlighting industry-wide scrutiny over whether chatbot safeguards adequately protect vulnerable users.

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Google updates Gemini with one-touch crisis support as lawsuits challenge AI chatbot safety

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Google Photos rolls out AI Enhance button and video playback speed controls for Android users

Google Photos is introducing two major updates for Android users worldwide. The AI Enhance button offers one-tap photo editing with automatic lighting and contrast adjustments, while new video playback speed controls let users adjust clips from 0.25x to 2x speed. Both features are rolling out now in a phased global deployment.

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Google Photos rolls out AI Enhance button and video playback speed controls for Android users

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Unite to Combat AI Model Copying by Chinese Competitors

Three Silicon Valley rivals—OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic—are joining forces through the Frontier Model Forum to fight unauthorized copying of AI models by Chinese competitors. US officials estimate adversarial distillation costs American AI labs billions in annual profits, while raising national security concerns about imitation AI models stripped of safety guardrails.

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Unite to Combat AI Model Copying by Chinese Competitors

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Anthropic secures 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPUs as revenue soars to $30 billion run rate

Anthropic expanded its compute agreement with Google and Broadcom, securing 3.5 gigawatts of tensor processing unit capacity starting in 2027. The deal reflects explosive demand for Claude AI models, with the company's annualized revenue jumping from $9 billion to $30 billion in just three months. More than 1,000 business customers now spend over $1 million annually on Anthropic's services.

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Anthropic secures 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPUs as revenue soars to $30 billion run rate

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Broadcom secures long-term Google AI chips deal through 2031, expands Anthropic partnership

Broadcom has signed a multi-year agreement with Google to develop custom AI chips and components for next-generation AI racks through 2031. The chipmaker also expanded its deal with Anthropic, providing 3.5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity starting in 2027. The agreements cement Broadcom's position in AI infrastructure as demand for alternatives to Nvidia accelerates.

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Broadcom secures long-term Google AI chips deal through 2031, expands Anthropic partnership

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Google quietly releases free offline AI dictation app that polishes speech into clean text

Google has quietly launched AI Edge Eloquent, a free offline-first AI dictation app for iOS that transcribes speech in real time and automatically removes filler words. The app runs entirely on-device using Gemma-based models, requires no subscription, and includes optional cloud processing via Gemini for enhanced text cleanup.

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Google quietly releases free offline AI dictation app that polishes speech into clean text

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Gemini on Android Auto handles complex tasks and transforms the driving experience

Google Gemini has rolled out to Android Auto and Google Maps, replacing Google Assistant with advanced conversational AI. Real-world testing reveals the AI assistant for driving excels at multi-step questions, email searches, calendar management, and music playback control. While occasional bugs appear, users report being genuinely impressed by its capabilities.

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Gemini on Android Auto handles complex tasks and transforms the driving experience

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