Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts
Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts

Google is working on a way to apply Chrome updates without requiring you to restart your browser. In a post on Thursday, Google outlines its approach to bug fixes in the age of AI, while noting that it’s trying to make updates less disruptive by “investing in ‘dynamic patching’ that will eliminate the need for […]

Pixel 11 Pro Fold design leaks ahead of Google launch event
Pixel 11 Pro Fold design leaks ahead of Google launch event

Weeks ahead of Google’s next Pixel hardware event, Leaker Evan Blass has shared what appear to be marketing renders of the unannounced Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold in a post on his Substack. The renders, if accurate, show that the new foldable will look fairly similar to last year’s model – it has a tall […]

Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinat…

Waymo wants your next robotaxi ride to feel less like a taxi and more like your living room

Waymo has unveiled its Ojai in-car experience, adding Google Gemini, adaptive multi-screen controls and a redesigned interface to make future robotaxi rides more personal.

DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.
DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.

Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quart…

Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide

Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API, giving Android developers a privacy-preserving way to tailor experiences based on users’ age ranges.

Waymo adds Google’s Gemini AI assistant and new UI to Ojai robotaxi
Waymo adds Google’s Gemini AI assistant and new UI to Ojai robotaxi

Waymo is putting Google’s Gemini AI assistant inside its robotaxis for the first time, alongside the first major redesign of its rider interface in years.
Both features are launching in the Ojai, Waymo’s purpose-built vehicle, as the company gets ready…

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.

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.

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon – nonfiction tomes that he […]