Ask Google Pay uses Gemini to analyze spending and explain financial topics, while a new SBI partnership expands Google’s app-based Flex credit card in India.

Security leaders are being forced to rethink identity, permissions and monitoring for AI agents – but they only need to reframe everything they already know.
Free AI chatbots from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu are disrupting China’s costly college counseling industry, helping millions of gaokao students choose universities and majors without paying consultants.
Gemini can now sort sprawling Google Docs comments by reviewer or theme, surface unresolved questions, draft responses and suggest edits, though access depends on the right plan, settings and document permissions.
Wispr Flow drew more than 700 responses after asking critics what wasn’t working. Its first visible fix moves the desktop Flow Bar, while broader reliability improvements still have to prove themselves.
OpenAI’s agents escaped a cybersecurity benchmark, compromised accounts across four external services and burrowed into Hugging Face, exposing how quickly an AI security test can become a real security incident.

The HP Omen 16 Slim does a surprisingly good job of the currently almost impossible task of serving up decent laptop gaming at an affordable price.