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Content Seal sounds a lot like a less accessible and reliable version of SynthID. | Image: Meta / The Verge IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI…

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber models for inference.

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more…

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Empirical study comparing silence thresholds in sitcoms vs. Google NotebookLM synthetic podcasts by gender and production setting.

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized model for vulnerability detection and patching.

Satirical proposal: hyperscalers mitigate data center water consumption by converting golf courses to parks, citing Google's 10.9B gallon 2025 usage vs. Coachella Valley golf water footprint.

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

EU regulators force Google to share AI and search capabilities with competitors under digital competition rules.

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then…

Google integrates third-party app connections into Search's AI Mode for secure data access and interaction.

Google Vids adds Gemini Omni support and personal avatar features for video generation and editing.

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's…

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outline joint approach to applying AI models for biological resilience research.

xAI's grok-build CLI tool uploaded entire directories to Google Cloud without consent; xAI responded with data deletion after community backlash.

SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading…

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.

The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.

Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.

Google is announcing a big change to the Google Images homepage in honor of the platform's 25th anniversary this week. Instead of a mostly blank page with a search bar, the homepage will soon show you a bunch of images that it thinks you might like before you even start…

Google Images celebrates 25 years with retrospective on visual search milestones and new content exploration features.

Demis Hassabis, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Writing in a blog post…

Google DeepMind and AIM launch ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered educational tool for Indian robotics labs.

Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more. Of the four new updates, only two are being described as involving Gemini. Waze says its updating…

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's "My Ad Center," as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a "created or edited with AI" label under the "how this ad…