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While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.

Up to 3x the speed with no loss of quality—is it too good to be true?

Want real human feedback related to your search results? Google’s AI now fetches it for you. | Image by Google / The Verge Google is updating its AI Search features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. One of the more notable changes…

Google DeepMind releases AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent demonstrating applications across business, infrastructure, and scientific domains.

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage…

Should users be banned? If Anthropic wants to be the next Google, meaning revolutionize the internet and the way computers are used. Should users be banned? I've been reading a lot of horror stories lately about people getting banned for stupid things like "research work,"…

Reddit speculation about Google's local AI availability; lacks specifics, credibility unclear.

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant's ability to interpret and act on requests. The…

IBM, Google, and Intel launch AI automation agents for Db2 database administration, enabling autonomous DBA operations.

Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

Google releases Gemma 4 multi-token prediction drafters in 4 quantized sizes for local deployment.

Google partners with XPRIZE and Range Media on $3.5M Future Vision film competition.

Google demonstrates 3X LLM inference speedup on TPUs using diffusion-style speculative decoding technique.

Reddit post claims Musk's fear of DeepMind CEO Hassabis motivated OpenAI founding; cites trial testimony about 2015 meeting.

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with…

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis…

Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and…

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from April 2026

Google Gemini API adds webhook support for asynchronous job notifications, reducing polling overhead for long-running requests.

GGUF quantizations of Google Gemma 4 updated with corrected chat template for local inference.

Stratechery analysis: Google's stock outperformed Meta's despite weaker core metrics; Google's AI monetization strategy (including Anthropic investment) cited as key driver.

Leaked Google I/O details suggest Gemini 'Omni' and versions 3.2/3.5 in development, indicating multimodal expansion.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left…

Reddit speculation on Google's competitive response to Anthropic following reported $40B investment, lacks substantive claims.

Hey all. For what seems like months now I've been seeing people complain about hitting usage limits in their chats with Claude.ai. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how and why conversations burn through session limits. So I built a little tool to show you exactly why…

Four of the largest U.S. tech companies reported earnings Wednesday afternoon, confirming an AI capital expenditure build-out without modern precedent. Combined, they devoted $130.65 billion to capital expenditures in the first three months of 2026—more than three times the…

Here’s an early look at the new Gemini assistant on a vehicle infotainment system. | Image: Google Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google's…

Google DeepMind explores AI co-clinician models to augment healthcare delivery through research into AI-assisted clinical workflows.

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many tech trends before…