Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you’ve purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and YouTube became unavailable on Movies Anywhere on October 31st, but now they should sync to your account again. “Support for Google […]
Google isn’t quite ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices. The company said on Friday that it will “continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026,” instead of its original plans to make the switch by the end of 2025. “We’re adjusting our previously announced timeline to […]
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google’s search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using “deceptive means” to automatically access and take Google’s search results “at an astonishing scale” before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued […]
The ChatGPT maker is aiming to raise the funding by the end of the first quarter in 2026, and the company may ask sovereign wealth funds to invest in the round.
A year or two ago, when a phone showed up at my door for review, I could pretty much count on it being black, gray, or maybe (as a treat) white. But in 2025, that hasn’t been the case. Phones I reviewed this year featured everything from real wood grain back panels to deep blue […]
Google expanded Gemini’s AI verification feature to videos made or edited with the company’s own AI models. Users can now ask Gemini to determine if an uploaded video is AI-generated by asking, “Was this generated using Google AI?” Gemini will scan the video’s visuals and audio for Google’s proprietary watermark called SynthID. The response will […]
The cringe comes for us all, and for all our hot new turns of phrase. “Rizz” lost its luster when grandparents started asking about its meaning. Teachers who dressed up as “6-7” on Halloween drove a nail into the coffin of Gen Alpha’s rallying cry. And tech CEOs who once trumpeted the quest for “artificial […]
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they’re having on Americans’ utility bills. The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-button issue in the US, which […]
Google is upgrading its Gemini app with Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its flagship AI model that’s still capable of fielding complex requests. The new model will replace Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default inside the Gemini app, and it’s headed to Google Search, too. Its arrival comes one month after the […]
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search