OpenAI is removing ChatGPT conversations from Google
Will Shanklin / engadget - OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The "short-lived experiment" was based on the chatbot's link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI's chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said t…
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Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
Jay Peters / theverge - Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showi…
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Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Google released its first publicly available "multi-agent" AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers.
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Appeals Court Upholds Epic Games’ Victory, Rules Google Play Store is an Illegal Monopoly
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A U.S. appeals court has affirmed that Google's Play Store is an illegal monopoly. Google plans to appeal to the Supreme Court in the landmark antitrust case.The post Appeals Court Upholds Epic Games’ Victory, Rules Google Play Store is an Illegal Monopol…
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Prices leak for every Pixel 10 phone
Emma Roth / theverge - We’ve already seen what every Pixel 10 model looks like, and now we might know the pricing, too. A new leak from Android Headlines suggests the base Pixel 10 with 128GB of storage will have the same $799 starting price as its predecessor, while the rest o…
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Google Supercharges Search AI Mode with Live Video, PDF Uploads, and ‘Canvas’ Workspace
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google enhances its Search AI Mode with 'Search Live' video input, PDF analysis, and a new 'Canvas' planning tool, deepening its 'answer engine' strategy.The post Google Supercharges Search AI Mode with Live Video, PDF Uploads, and ‘Canvas’ Workspace appe…
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Google's Pixel 10 may get magnetic Qi2 charging after all
Steve Dent / engadget - Google's upcoming Pixel 10 may support wireless Qi2 charging natively (without a case), which would make it the first Pixel model and one of the few Android phones to do so. A new image from mega-leaker Evan Blass shows a Qi2 charger attached to the back …
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Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - NotebookLM, the Google research tool that gained notoriety for its AI-generated podcasts, is introducing a feature called Video Overviews. As the name suggests, this tool automatically creates videos on requested topics and pulls data from a user's upload…
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Google’s AI Mode update adds even more tools for students
Emma Roth / theverge - Google is bringing a bunch of new features to AI Mode, and is positioning the update as a way to help students study for tests or dig deeper into what they’re learning. Today, the company announced that it will now let users upload images to AI Mode on de…
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Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey
Macy Meyer / cnet - Ten million people could have been notified by Google's Android Earthquake Alerts System before the 2023 disaster.
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Chrome will now display AI reviews of online stores
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Google just announced a neat little feature for its Chrome web browser. It'll now show AI-generated reviews of online stores, to make buying stuff "safer and more efficient."The feature is available by clicking an icon just to the left of the web address …
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Pixel 6a user says phone caught on fire even after battery update
Dean Daley / mobilesyrup - The Google Pixel 6a has caught fire again. Recently, a Reddit user reported an issue they experienced with their Pixel 6a catching fire. Google recently released an update to help with the overheating, but even that did not help. The Redditor said they we…
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Google's new Web Guide uses AI to change how you see search results
Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Google has introduced a new AI-powered search feature called Web Guide that organizes and groups links together.
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Google Enters ‘Vibe-Coding’ Fray with Opal, an Experimental No-Code AI App Builder
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google launches Opal, an experimental AI tool for building web apps with text prompts, challenging rivals like Amazon, Microsoft, and Cursor in the no-code space.The post Google Enters ‘Vibe-Coding’ Fray with Opal, an Experimental No-Code AI App Builder a…
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Pixel Watch 4 Makes Old Chargers Obsolete, But Still Won't Go Wireless
bgr - A new leak reveals that the Pixel Watch 4 will ditch the rear-mounted magnetic charging pins, but Google still isn't adding wireless charging.
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Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results
Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today.
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Everything we think we know about the Pixel 10 phones
Dominic Preston / theverge - Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching next month. We even know what one of the phones looks like, thanks to the official image up above. But beyond the few tidbits Google…
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Google's AI-Powered Virtual Try-On for Online Shopping Is Now Live
Imad Khan / cnet - The feature was previously limited to Labs users, but it's now widely available.
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Google just spent $14 billion on servers in 91 days, plans even higher spending soon
Simon Sharwood / theregister - G-Cloud on track for $50 billion revenue as AI creates a new generation of Google-eyed youth Google’s parent company Alphabet has increased its capex budget for the year by $10 billion and now expects to spend $85 billion this year, and more in 2026.…
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AI Tool Deciphers Ancient Roman Inscriptions in Seconds, Transforming Historical Research
Maria Garcia / implicator - Google's new AI reads damaged Roman inscriptions in seconds, work that takes historians days. The system found connections in ancient texts that human experts missed, potentially transforming how we study the past.
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