The Pixel 11 is almost here, and these are the 3 upgrades I’m begging Google to make

The Pixel 11 is just around the corner, and Google has a chance to fix three long-standing issues that have held the Pixel experience back for years.

Google’s new Magic Pointer Play Store listing reveals a Gemini shortcut built for Googlebooks

Google’s newly surfaced Magic Pointer listing reveals a Gemini-powered cursor for Googlebooks, but incompatible Android devices mean the feature remains an early preview rather than something consumers can try today.

Your Google Voice calls just got an AI note-taker, and a cheaper price tag

Google Voice is bringing Gemini’s AI note-taking to phone calls, plus new standalone plans that let anyone with a Gmail account run a professional phone system without Workspace subscription.

Your Google AI Studio apps can finally have polished, presentable web links

Google AI Studio now lets users assign personalized ai.studio addresses to full-stack web apps deployed through Cloud Run.

Big Tech’s AI debt just hit $350bn, and Europe is about to feel it
Big Tech’s AI debt just hit $350bn, and Europe is about to feel it

Big Tech built its reputation on mountains of cash. It is building its AI empire on debt, and the bill is starting to land in Europe. The five biggest builders of AI data centres in the US have doubled their debt over five years. Together, Alphabet, Am…

The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system
The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system

Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as “critical third parties” to its financial sy…

The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants

Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach so…

You can now check if a Google ad was made using AI

Google is adding an AI transparency label to ads on Search, YouTube, and Discover, letting you check if an ad was made with generative AI.

Android can now back up more of your phone, but Google is also letting you say no

Android is adding granular switches for message and device backups while testing automatic Documents uploads to Google Drive, giving users more control over what gets saved and what consumes their cloud storage.

Google just changed how it grades the AI models you use for Android coding

Google resets its Android Bench leaderboard with a new testing framework and eight new models.