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Google’s Gemini App Is Getting AI Image Editing
Google is bringing AI image editing to Gemini, which means that you can use text-based prompts in the Gemini app or website to tweak existing images. This feature has been available in Google AI Studio for some time, and Google is now rolling it out to all Gemini users, with support for 45 languages. Google says you will be able…
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Google’s Latest Nonsensical Overview Results Illustrate Yet Another Problem With AI
You might not be familiar with the phrase “peanut butter platform heels” but it apparently originates from a scientific experiment, where peanut butter was transformed into a diamond-like structure, under very high pressure—hence the “heels” reference. Except this never happened. The phrase is complete nonsense, but was given a definition and backstory by Google AI Overviews when asked by writer…
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Is Google’s smart tag network any good yet?
When Google launched its long-awaited Find My Device network in April 2024, it arrived to… well, what’s the opposite of “fanfare”? A slow network rollout and damning reviews dampened enthusiasm for what was supposed to be a wave of Android-powered rivals to Apple’s AirTag. But a year’s a long time in tech, and Google has been promising improvements almost since…
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DOJ targets Google’s AI strategy in landmark antitrust battle – Computerworld
Federal prosecutors warned that Google might leverage artificial intelligence to entrench its search monopoly, demanding “strong measures” to prevent the tech giant from extending its market control into the AI era. In the latest phase of the major antitrust trial that began on Monday, government lawyer David Dahlquist argued that Google has built a system where its control of search…
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Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to…
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Google’s Veo 2 AI Video Model Is Now Available for Gemini Advanced Users
Google is rolling out a new way to generate videos, as well as animate existing images, using AI. The catch? These videos are really short, and you have to pay to play. On Tuesday, Google announced that Gemini Advanced and Google One AI Premium users can now make AI-generated videos using the company’s Veo 2 video model. Google originally unveiled…
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Google’s AI video generator Veo 2 is rolling out on AI Studio
Google’s AI video generator tool Veo 2, which is the company’s take on OpenAI’s Sora, is now rolling out to some users in the United States. At the Cloud Next event, Google confirmed that Veo 2 is production-ready and will begin rolling out to users soon. Today, BleepingComputer noticed that some users have started receiving early access to the Veo…
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The problem with Google’s Pixel 9a – Computerworld
Google’s Pixel pricing puzzle If you look back over the 7,792 years I’ve been obsessing over this area, you’ll see that my typical stance has been that the Pixel “a” phones are usually the most advisable options for most people — those who want an exceptional all-around Android experience, including near-instant ongoing software updates for a full seven years, but…
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Google’s Latest Patch Fixes 62 Security Vulnerabilities in Android
Google has released its April 2025 Android Security Bulletin, which includes patches for 62 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Two of the fixes address critical zero-day flaws that may have been exploited in “limited, targeted” attacks, according to Google. Zero-days are security vulnerabilities that are exploited before the software developer can identify the flaw and issue a patch. The security update…
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Google’s Sec-Gemini v1 Takes on Hackers & Outperforms Rivals by 11%
Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock In a bid to tilt the cybersecurity battlefield in favor of defenders, Google has introduced Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model designed to help security teams identify threats, analyze incidents, and understand vulnerabilities faster and more accurately than before. Announced by the company’s cybersecurity research leads, Elie Burzstein and Marianna Tishchenko, Sec-Gemini v1 is the…
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