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Google’s Co-Founder Says AI Performs Best When You Threaten It
Artificial intelligence continues to be the thing in tech—whether consumers are interested or not. What strikes me most about generative AI isn’t its features or potential to make my life easier (a potential I have yet to realize); rather, I’m focused these days on the many threats that seem to be rising from this technology. There’s misinformation, for sure—new AI…
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Google’s AI Search Is About to Get Even Worse
Summary Google is expanding ads in AI Overviews and adding them to AI Mode to desktop platforms. Ads may appear in AI-generated responses in AI Mode whenever they’re relevant to the search query. Ads help monetize AI without burdening users, but may be annoying. We’re used to seeing the occasional ad on Google Search, but it’s a new era, and…
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Google’s “Try It On” Can Help You See How Clothes Fit Before You Buy Them
Has this ever happened to you, where you spot a dress or a cool jacket online, but can’t tell whether it would look good on you? Well, Google has come out with a helpful solution called “Try it on”, and people are already saying that it will change the way you shop forever. Try it on is a new feature…
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Android 16 desktop mode — Google’s best-kept secret got a quiet reveal at I/O
During all the excitement of Google’s annual I/O 2025, you may have missed the more technical developer keynote where Google revealed that it’s been working on a desktop mode for Android 16. You can watch the part of the live stream here where it’s revealed. Engineering manager Florina Muntenescu confirmed that the company is working with Samsung since the new…
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News publishers call Google’s AI Mode ‘theft’
The trade association backing some of the biggest news publishers in the US slammed Google’s newly expanded AI Mode, which trades traditional search results for an AI chatbot-like interface. In a statement on Wednesday, the News/Media Alliance said the new feature is “depriving” publishers of both traffic and revenue. During Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced that it’s expanding…
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Google’s New AI Ultra Subscription Plan Is Really, Really Expensive
Google announced a lot of new stuff today at I/O, but few things were more eye-watering than the company’s new Google AI Ultra subscription. At $250 per month, it’s by far the most expensive subscription Google has yet launched. So it makes sense it comes with everything. And I mean everything. For starters, subscribers at this tier get to use…
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Google’s New Accessibility Features Will Finally Make Small Text Easier to Read on Mobile
Ahead of Google I/O 2025, which starts on May 20, the company has announced a few big accessibility focused features for Android and Google Chrome. Among these are improvements to the Android screen reader, more expressive captions, and easier to read text in Chrome for Android. This follows Apple’s recent accessibility focused announcements, with both companies’ posts timed to mark…
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‘Developers will need to adapt’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joins Google’s Sundar Pichai in revealing the scale of AI-generated code at the tech giants – and it’s a stark warning for software developers
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says up to 30% of the tech giant’s code was written by AI, prompting more questions over the impact of the technology on software development. Speaking during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at LlamaCon last month, Nadella revealed that anywhere between 20% to 30% of code was “written by software” – essentially meaning…
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Google’s AI agent protocol is becoming the language for digital labor – Computerworld
Calvert said the A2A open protocol helps agents communicate and work together, regardless of which vendor or system they’re built on. Today’s agents are designed to handle specific or a class of tasks, but A2A will change that, he said. “For example, a sales agent supporting prospecting work, or an engineering agent generating postmortems — in the future, customers will…
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Google’s iOS App Can Now Help “Simplify” Complex Topics
Seeing the sad state of affairs going on with Apple Intelligence, Google is taking a step to lend a hand to iOS users. The company is rolling out a new AI-powered feature for their app called “Simplify,” which can break down and summarize difficult-to-understand topics with the help of Gemini. The new “Simplify” feature on Google‘s iOS app will make…
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