Google has quietly turned the Chrome toolbar into a direct gateway for Gemini — rolling out what the company calls the “biggest upgrade in its history,” a sweeping set of AI features that embed Gemini natively into the browser, surface an AI Mode in the address bar, and promise future “agentic”...
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Google's new Windows experiment drops a summonable Google search bar onto the desktop — press Alt + Space, highlight anything on screen with Google Lens, and get web, Drive and local-file results without opening a browser.
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For more than two decades Google Search has been primarily a...
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Google has quietly shipped an experimental Windows desktop application that puts Google Search, Google Lens and its conversational AI Mode a single keystroke away — a Spotlight‑style overlay that searches your PC, installed apps, Google Drive and the web without switching windows.
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Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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Cloud providers’ recent September preview releases from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google aren’t incremental feature drops — they’re a clear signal that enterprise expectations for cloud AI have shifted from “which model is best?” to “which platform makes models secure, auditable, and...
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Cloud providers’ September previews are not incremental checkbox updates; they are a clear signal that enterprises expect AI clouds to be more than high‑performance models — they must be secure, auditable, and operationally mature enough to run production workloads at scale.
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A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...
Google’s Gemini app now accepts user-uploaded audio — a long‑requested capability that turns recorded lectures, interviews, podcasts, and meeting captures into first‑class inputs for transcription, summarization, and structured research workflows, while tying those media flows into NotebookLM’s...
Apple’s AI crossroads tightened this week as multiple reports say the company is quietly weighing an extraordinary course correction: instead of shipping its own large language model as the core of the long‑promised Siri overhaul, Apple is exploring licensing or otherwise using Google’s Gemini —...
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The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...
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Samsung’s Vision AI Companion arrived at IFA 2025 as a deliberate pivot: a unified, multi‑agent AI hub for smart displays that folds on‑device vision features and third‑party conversational agents into a single, remote‑invoked experience designed for the living room and home office alike. The...
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Samsung’s IFA push makes a decisive bet on pluralistic AI: the company is rolling its new Vision AI Companion onto eligible Smart TVs and monitors while opening the platform to multiple third‑party agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — and positioning those agents as...
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Comscore’s latest dataset signals a decisive shift: consumers are moving many AI assistant interactions off desktops and onto phones, with mobile reach rising to 73.4 million users in the March–June window while PC usage declined — a trend driven by rapid mobile gains for Microsoft Copilot...
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AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle.
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Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...
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Google and Microsoft have built two very different — and increasingly capable — AI companions, and choosing between Gemini and Copilot now means weighing ecosystem fit, multimodal power, privacy defaults, and pricing structure rather than just raw “intelligence.” The battlefield has shifted from...
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Samsung’s IFA announcement in Berlin marks a decisive step toward an “open agent” vision for consumer AI: the company is bringing multiple third‑party AI agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — onto its displays and broader device family through its new Vision AI...
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ChatGPT users around the world woke up to blank responses and error messages on September 2–3, 2025, as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot experienced a partial outage that left thousands frustrated and underlined the operational risks of relying on a single AI provider for critical workflows...
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When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...
Andreessen Horowitz’s latest Consumer AI ranking confirms what many in the industry have been quietly expecting: the chaotic early market is settling into a more measurable, competitive landscape — and Google, xAI, and a handful of nimble startups are positioning themselves as the platforms and...
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