Gmail Users Just Got a Surprise Free AI Upgrade: What’s New
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Google is expanding its use of Gemini inside Gmail, with several AI-powered features now available to users at no cost. According to Blake Barnes, Google’s vice-president of product for Gmail, Gemini tools that previously required a paid subscription are …
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Google Unveils Ambitious Gmail Overhaul, And It's All About AI
bgr - Gmail can be a much smarter tool if you enable its new AI features: Suggested Replies, Help Me Write, Proofread, AI Overviews, and AI Inbox are here.
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Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas designed for warehouses and factory floors
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Boston Dynamics is turning its humanoid robot Atlas into a commercial product. The first fleet ships to Hyundai in 2026, where the 1.9-meter-tall robot will handle heavy lifting in warehouses and factories.The article Boston Dynamics unveils production At…
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
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Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address
Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail address or create a new alias, according to a new support document. [...]
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Alphabet to Buy Intersect for $4.75 Billion as AI-Investment Plans Grow
Katherine Hamilton / wsj - Google-parent said it would buy Intersect’s data-center projects that are in development, plus multiple gigawatts of energy and the Intersect team as part of the deal.
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Google confirms Gemini will fully replace Assistant on phones in 2026
digitaltrends - Google’s shift from Assistant to Gemini on smartphones is delayed, meaning users can continue using Assistant while Google fine-tunes Gemini for a full mobile rollout.The post Google confirms Gemini will fully replace Assistant on phones in 2026 appeared …
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Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Sean Hollister / theverge - Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally tying its Google Play Billing system to its app store, and let developers link to ways to downl…
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Alphabet-owned Waymo in talks to raise $15 billion in funding
cnbc - The funding round would give Waymo a valuation as high as $110 billion, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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Google launches new AI agent to help plan your day
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - The experimental productivity assistant called CC comes from Google Labs and runs on Gemini.The article Google launches new AI agent to help plan your day appeared first on THE DECODER.
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Google's new live translation beta uses Gemini to preserve tone and rhythm
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google is integrating Gemini into Google Translate for better text translations and launching a beta for real-time voice translation through headphones.The article Google's new live translation beta uses Gemini to preserve tone and rhythm appeared first o…
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Google Has Taken Down AI-Generated Content Following Disney’s Cease and Desist
Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Disney has a licensing deal with OpenAI now, by the way.
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Google is bringing Gemini live translation to your headphones (unless youre using an iPhone, of course)
mashable - Google's Gemini-powered live language translation is now supported by any headphones you've got, but not any phone you've got yet.
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Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App
msmash / slashdot - Google's Chrome team has built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thu…
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Disney accuses Google of ‘massive’ copyright infringement following deal with OpenAI
Emma Roth / theverge - Disney has accused Google of engaging in copyright infringement on a "massive scale," claiming its AI models have generated content resembling characters from Frozen, Deadpool, Star Wars, and others, according to reports from Variety and Deadline. In a ce…
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Google Rolls Out Gemini AI for Chrome on iPhone and iPad
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Google is rolling out Gemini integration for its Chrome browser on iPhone and iPad, a move that brings AI feature parity with its web and desktop versions.The company teased built-in Gemini in Chrome for iOS in September, and the feature is now rolling ou…
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DeepMind to open first AI science lab in UK 2026
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Google DeepMind announced plans to open its first automated science laboratory in the United Kingdom in 2026. The facility will use artificial intelligence to identify new materials for superconductors, semiconductors, and solar cells. This initiative for…
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YouTube TV to launch genre-based subscription plans in 2026
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The new packages will give consumers more flexibility over the content that they want to pay for.
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Back to Top / Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 1:20 pm / permalink 16793 / 15 stories in 2 months
Google Adds Security Layers to Safeguard Agentic Browsing With Chrome
PYMNTS / pymnts - Google has announced new tools it will use to improve the safety of agentic browsing with Chrome. The tools are designed in part to combat “the primary new threat facing all agentic browsers,” indirect prompt injection, Nathan Parker, Chrome security team…
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Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
msmash / slashdot - Google said it's working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms: one with screens, and another that's audio focused. From a report: The first AI gla…
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