Google launches extensions system for its command-line coding tool
Google launched a new feature for its command-line AI system, Gemini CLI, allowing outside companies to integrate directly into the product.
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SoftBank makes a $5.4 billion bet on AI robots
Remember Pepper, the overhyped “emotional robot” that flopped hard a few years ago? Well, one of its makers, SoftBank, is getting back into the bot business with a $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB’s robotics division. The deal, which still needs the green light from regulators, bolsters the Japanese group’s hand in robotics, which includes stakes […]
Google’s Search Live comes to India, AI Mode gets more languages
With this launch, India becomes the second market after the U.S. to get Google’s Search Live.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders – media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn’t want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But after days of Nazi SpongeBob, criminal Pikachu, and Sora-philosophizing Rick and Morty, OpenAI CEO Sam […]
Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do
Google is previewing a new Gemini AI model designed to navigate and interact with the web via a browser, letting AI agents do things inside interfaces designed for use by people and not robots. The model, called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses “visual understanding and reasoning capabilities” to analyze a user’s request and carry out […]
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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to early research that led to today’s quantum computers
On Tuesday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a […]
Google launches its AI vibe-coding app Opal in 15 more countries
The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan.