Gemini is moving into Google Play, and it has front-row seat to your spending habits

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.

Agentic security doesn’t need a whole new definition – you just need to reframe what you already know
Agentic security doesn’t need a whole new definition – you just need to reframe what you already know

Security leaders are being forced to rethink identity, permissions and monitoring for AI agents – but they only need to reframe everything they already know.

Gemini on Mac can now type what you say and act on what it sees

Google is upgrading the Gemini app for Mac with system-wide dictation triggered by the Fn key, plus an opt-in mode that lets Gemini pull context from what’s on screen for more complex tasks.

Free AI chatbots are disrupting China’s expensive college counseling industry

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 summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs

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 asked its haters what was wrong and more than 700 people answered

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 powerful AI agents ran amok and hacked multiple services on their own

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 new HP Omen 16 Slim isn’t actually that skinny, but it is a surprisingly good budget gaming laptop – if you can get it at the right price
The new HP Omen 16 Slim isn’t actually that skinny, but it is a surprisingly good budget gaming laptop – if you can get it at the right price

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.

Mark Zuckerberg wants AI superintelligence in everyone’s hands

Zuckerberg says Meta can put superintelligence in billions of hands. Its reach makes that plausible, but users would still depend on Meta to build the models, set the safeguards and define their limits.

The US government just blacklisted foreign-made robots and power inverters

The FCC added foreign made humanoid robots, quadrupeds, and power inverters to its Covered List over national security concerns. Here’s what actually changes.