This Google Home update is all about smarter automation

Google Home update expands automation with new triggers, conditions, and actions, allowing smarter control across devices like locks, lights, appliances, and sensors.

Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models

With Apple’s latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.

You can now win back a shred of privacy with approximate location sharing in Chrome

Chrome on Android now supports approximate location sharing, letting users limit how precisely websites can track them while still enabling essential features.

Google Pixel 11 series: Tensor G6, Pixel Glow, new cameras, and everything else leaked so far

The Google Pixel 11 series is still months away, but leaks have already revealed details about the new Tensor G6 chip, design changes, camera upgrades, and more. Here’s everything we know so far.

Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they’re released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform “pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research […]

In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not t…

Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we’ve heard from some of the most powerful people in tech – including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk’s fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the […]

Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts
Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts

Staffers at Google DeepMind’s headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm’s technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union be recognized as joint representatives, with 98 percent […]

iOS 26.5 adding encryption to RCS messages exchanged between Androids and iPhones

iOS 26.5 adds encrypted RCS support for iPhone and Android chats, but users should look for the lock indicator before assuming cross-platform conversations are protected.

Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again
Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again

Three months after a $30bn multi-currency raise, Google’s parent is back. The euro tranches expand one of the most active corporate borrowing programmes of the AI cycle. Three months after raising more than $30bn in a multi-currency global debt issue, …