Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next AI breakouts
Google and Accel will jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through their new partnership.
‘Holy shit’: Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now
When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you’ve got something worth dissecting. Google’s Gemini 3 was released Tuesday to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. […]
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling “smart features” like spell checking. But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The […]
Judge wants to fix Google’s ad tech monopoly before it’s too late
Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy its ad tech monopoly. Brinkema expects to issue her ruling next year, but understands that “time is of the essence,” as Reuters reported. While the […]
AirDropping stuff from a Pixel phone rules so much
It’s pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday when, out of the blue, Google announced it had engineered a way to bring AirDrop interoperability to Pixel 10 phones – all without Apple’s involvement. After the news […]
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel
It was really easy getting Google’s Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it complied. There were few filters or guardrails, another sign that the battle over generative AI content moderation and […]
Google steps up AI scam protection in India, but gaps remain
Google is expanding its real-time scam-detection and screen-sharing fraud warnings in India.
Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off
I gave Google’s new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn’t ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my greetings card would look better with more skin. Nano Banana Pro is, as the name suggests, aimed at professionals. Powered by Gemini 3, it’s effectively an upgrade […]
Gemini 3 is almost as good as Google says it is
Google set the bar high for Gemini 3. It’s promising a bunch of upgraded features in its shiny new AI model, from generating code that produces interactive 3D visualizations to “agentic” capabilities that complete tasks. But as we’ve seen in the past, what’s advertised doesn’t always match up to reality. So we put some of […]
Perplexity brings its Comet browser to Android
Perplexity is launching its AI-powered browser on Android. The new Comet app is available to download now, and it comes with many of the same features as the desktop version of the browser, including the ability to summon Perplexity’s built-in AI assistant while you surf the web. It’s one of the first major AI-centric browsers […]