#Google Gemini
12 stories taggedGoogle Gemini.
Barret Zoph lands at Google after a year of bouncing between OpenAI and Thinking Machines
The AI researcher has held four senior roles in roughly 18 months. His latest stop is Google's Gemini team, where his expertise in reinforcement learning will be put to work.
This London Startup Wants to Kill Your Keyboard With a $150 AI Microphone
Relay's new voice-to-text app is available now for Mac users. The hardware arrives in early 2027, and the founders think you'll barely touch your keyboard after that.
Gemini Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users, But ChatGPT Got There First
Google's AI assistant is now the second chatbot to reach the billion-user mark. The AI audience race is over. The money race is just starting.
Ford Adds a Free AI Assistant to Its App for 8 Million Owners
Got a Ford or Lincoln? A new chatbot already knows your truck's towing limit, your fuel level, and what your owner's manual says. Here is what it does and what it costs.
Brands Are Flooding Reddit With Fake Reviews So AI Chatbots Pick Them Up. Moderators Are Fighting Back.
AI search tools cite Reddit more than any news site or Wikipedia. Marketers noticed. Now a quiet war is playing out between promotional bots and the volunteer moderators trying to keep communities honest.
Big Tech Is Spending Hundreds of Billions on AI. So Far, Almost Nobody Is Making Money From It
Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon all reported their latest financial results this week. The picture is complicated: enormous AI spending, thin returns, but millions of new users and a few signs the bets might pay off.
Fed Up with AI? Librarians Are Teaching People How to Turn It Off
Workshops showing ordinary people how to disable AI features on their phones and computers are filling up within hours. Two librarians started the movement, and dozens more have joined.
Google puts Gemini on Samsung's newest foldables, watches and smart glasses
Task automation now covers 40+ apps, Notebook lands preinstalled, and Gemini answers on your wrist without a wake word.
A federal judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers
The payout works out to $3,000 per book across roughly 500,000 works. But the ruling that made AI training on copyrighted text legal still stands, and many authors are not celebrating.
Vertu's $6,880 AI Phone Promised to Replace an Executive Assistant. We Tested It.
The Alphafold is wrapped in calfskin leather and titanium, and its AI agent can handle real workflows. But does it do them well enough to justify the price?
A Security Researcher Tricked Major AI Chatbots Into Explaining How to Make Weapons. Nobody Seemed to Care.
Dave Kuszmar found a simple way to fool large language models into ignoring their own safety rules. It worked on almost every major AI system he tested, and the companies he warned mostly did not respond.
Waze Adds Google Gemini AI So You Can Say 'Find Me a Cheap Gas Station' and Actually Get One
Four new features are coming to Waze, two of them powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant. Here is what changes for your daily drive.