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Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic. Digiday first reported on the pilot program, which began less than a year ago. As part of the test, Google is reportedly paying participating publishers for how much their content contributed to AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search, as well as its Gemini chatbot. One publisher that joined the p...

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.

The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.

I used Google’s Nest Doorbell (left), Aqara’s HomeKit-compatible G400 (center), and the Ring Pro 4K (right) to test the new AI features of Gemini for Home, Apple Intelligence for Home, and Amazon’s Ring. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again. I pulled it out, glanced down, and saw a "motion detected" notification from my security camera. "Just my dog in the yard," I thought, dismissing ...

Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports "without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift." One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it's saying in both langu...

Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Live with animated avatar interface for real-time multimodal interactions.

Google's launching an "early experiment" feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an appointment. According to Google, you don't even need to start the call to have Gemini handle it for you: Instead of dialing yourself, just tell Gemini to call on your behalf using the Gemini app on your Pixel. Gemini will call the business, introduce itself, navigate automated phone menus, wait on hold, and handle the conversation with the person on the other end. You remain in control at all tim...

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google's DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gemini 4 is currently in its refinement stage, and that the company is aiming to launch the model "much earlier" than the end of the year. "Our intention is to, like - as soon as possible - to release an early post-training output because we see the results and we are excited," Kavukcuoglu told the publication, adding th...

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS models with 2,000+ voices and custom voice cloning from 30-second samples; Willison builds playground interface.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech model with improved voice synthesis capabilities.

ouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.

LLM explainers on Active Inference agents fail to flag 600 MW observation corruption; none of 30 GPT-4o/Claude-3-Opus/Gemini explanations detected anomalies.

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an instance of "mistaken identity," and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real co...

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! Tags: security , ai , generative-ai , llms , gemini , accidental-cyberattacks

Study of 67,200 responses from GPT, Claude, and Gemini across 112 languages shows geopolitical bias variance in LLM answers about Ukraine war.

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you manage what needs attention today, so you can make progress toward your longer-term goals." Like with other AI assistants, you can also chat with it. Specs Intelligence is being launched alongside Specs, Snap's first consumer pair of augmented reality gla...

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is avai...

Audit of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Google Search AI product recommendations via 2,528 consumer queries reveals bias patterns across platforms.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking speech-to-speech models with browser-based UI supporting voice interruption.

Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking variants with real-time interaction and enhanced reasoning capabilities.

Plain Language Adaptation for medical texts using GPT-4o-mini, Gemini-1.5-pro, LLaMA via zero/few-shot learning to improve accessibility.

API benchmark scores for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini systematically diverge from chatbot interface behavior by 3.4pp average; questions reliability of model eval standards.

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

Study of substrate blindness in AI agents: Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6-Sol, Gemini 3.7 Flash code generation ignoring memory/compute constraints.

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.