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Everyday AI

Samsung Unveils New Smart Glasses with Google, Promising 9-Hour Battery Life

Samsung and Google are bringing smart glasses to market this fall, with fashion-brand frames, a full day's battery, and AI assistants built in.

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Frontier Labs

Google Quietly Upgrades to Gemini 3.6 Flash After 3.5 Fell Short on Coding

Google has released three new AI models, including a surprise version bump from 3.5 to 3.6 Flash. Gemini 3.5 Pro, promised for June, still hasn't arrived.

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AI Security

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Finds 55 Bugs in Chrome's Engine That Rivals Missed

Google's new AI security model punches above its weight on vulnerability hunting, and it costs far less than the heavy-hitters it's chasing.

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Policy

Stanford Students Walked Out on Google's CEO at Graduation. Here Is What They Actually Wanted.

More than a hundred students left during Sundar Pichai's commencement speech at Stanford. Their grievances went far beyond artificial intelligence.

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AI Business

Google Is Building a New AI Chip That Could Cut Power Costs Tenfold

A chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' is reportedly 6 to 10 times more efficient than Google's current hardware. If it delivers, it could meaningfully reduce what it costs to run Gemini, Google's family of AI models.

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Everyday AI

Google Just Changed How It Counts Your Gemini AI Usage. Here Is What You Actually Get Now.

Google switched from counting requests to measuring computing power. That sounds technical, but it has a practical effect: you may run out of AI credits faster than you expect, and the new rules are deliberately vague.

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Science & Space

First wildfire-detecting satellites reach orbit as fires rage across North America

Three purpose-built microsatellites launched on 7 July 2026, promising to spot small fires across every fire-prone region on Earth at least twice a day before the year is out.

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Policy

EU Tells Google to Open Up Its Digital Toolkit

Google must share search data and let third-party AI assistants play nice with Android, says the EU.

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Everyday AI

Google's AI Mode can now connect to your shopping and design apps

Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music are the first apps you can link directly to Google's conversational search tool, letting it do tasks, not just answer questions.

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Everyday AI

Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and Adds Code-Running Features

The AI note-taking app gets a new name and new powers, including the ability to write and run code in a secure cloud environment.

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AI Business

Google Search Now Plugs Straight Into Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music

AI Mode in Google Search can now shop, design and save playlists through connected apps. Here is what it actually does and who pays.

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Policy

The EU Just Forced Google to Open Android and Search to Its AI Rivals

Two new rulings from Brussels mean ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity could soon work as deeply as Gemini does on your Android phone. Here is what changes, and when.

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Policy

Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training, calling it one of history's biggest copyright violations

Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier claim Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to build its Gemini AI. A federal lawsuit filed in New York could reshape how AI companies gather training data.

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Everyday AI

Google Images Turns 25 and Gets a Pinterest-Style Makeover

A scrollable image feed, personalised collections, and AI-generated pictures inside search results are all coming to Google Images in the next few weeks.

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Policy

Towns Are Fighting Back Against AI Data Centers, and They Are Winning Some

From a two-person protest in Ireland to 833 active opposition groups across America, the pushback against AI's power-hungry building boom has gone mainstream.

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