Tag: google
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Google’s New Model Lands, But Only A Few Get In
Google just put its newest model out into the world, and it didn’t throw a big public party for it. Gemini 4 Argon showed up this week, built for the kind of work that actually grinds people down: untangling legal contracts, digging through financial research, chasing bugs through a million lines of code. Google says…
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Google Gave Gemini a Face That Speaks 97 Languages
Google just gave its Gemini assistant something it never had before, a face. Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar is now generally available for enterprise customers, and it does something that sounds simple until you actually watch it work. It listens, it talks back, and its face moves in real time to match, lips included. The part…
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Google Just Gave Away Its Whole Robot Playbook
Google’s robotics arm Intrinsic just did something companies in this space almost never do. It open sourced the core software that runs its actual factory robots and put it out under a license that lets anyone use it, free, for whatever they want. It is called Intrinsic Core, and it is not a toy demo.…
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Google Just Let Its Own Engineers Use Anthropic’s AI
For a long time, Google had a simple rule for its own people: build with Gemini, full stop. Employees weren’t allowed to touch outside coding tools like Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex. If you wanted a taste of Claude, you basically had to be on a short list. That rule just quietly loosened. Google opened…
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Google Just Bought Spirit Airlines’ Old Data
When Spirit Airlines went through bankruptcy, one of the things being sold off was not planes or gates. It was data. Emails, internal chat logs, pricing records, years of ordinary business paperwork nobody ever expected to end up on an auction block. Google won that auction with a $10 million bid, beating out an AI…
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Google Just Made Its Best Cheap AI Even Cheaper
Three weeks. That is how long it took Google to follow up its last small model with a better one. Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived on August 13, and Google is calling it the most intelligent workhorse model it has built yet for coding and for agents. The pitch here is not really about beating the…
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Google Just Killed an App Before It Even Shipped
Google had an AI Studio app ready to go on iOS and Android. Over 800,000 people had already pre ordered it. Then, right before launch, Google scrapped the whole thing. Instead of shipping a separate app, Google is folding those app building features straight into the main Gemini app. The idea is that people shouldn’t…
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Google Earth Let You Fake a Satellite Photo. Not Anymore.
Google Earth added a button last week that let anyone type a prompt and get a fake satellite photo of any spot on the planet. Wildfires that never happened. A nuclear plant that isn’t there. All rendered on top of real coordinates, the kind of imagery journalists and human rights groups have leaned on for…
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Google Just Mapped 15 Million AI Conversations
Google just published the first real map of how people actually use AI, and the answer isn’t quite what most of the doom headlines have been telling you. The report is called the AI and Economy ATLAS, and it’s built from 15 million anonymized conversations pulled from the Gemini app, AI Mode in search, and…
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Google DeepMind Just Put Brains in Boston Dynamics Robots
Boston Dynamics is now running Gemini Robotics integrated into its Spot robot. That partnership, announced this week through Google Cloud, means the robots that navigate physical space and make real decisions are now powered by multimodal AI that understands what it sees and what to do about it. The Spot robot with Gemini is being…