Tag: google
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Google Search Just Got Smart
Google Search just got its biggest makeover in 25 years. The new intelligent search box, powered by AI, is rolling out globally today across all languages where AI Mode is available. This is not just a refresh. This is a rethinking of what search is. For decades, search has been the same: you type keywords,…
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Google DeepMind Just Bought a Seat at A24’s Table
Google is putting money into A24, and that is a bigger deal than a random studio check. The number on the board is about $75 million, but the real move is stranger and more useful than that: Google wants a hand in how movies get made, not just how they get watched. DeepMind is pairing…
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Microsoft and Google Are Racing Into Coding AI
Microsoft announced MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build 2026. It turns written descriptions into working source code. Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash can code. OpenAI has Codex. Anthropic has Claude Code. Everyone is building coding AI now. The question has shifted from “does it work?” to “whose is best?” Anthropic won the first round because Claude Code works…
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Google Missed Its Own Deadline on Gemini 3.5 Pro
Back in May at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai showed off Gemini 3.5 Pro and said “Give us until next month to get it to you.” That line drew audible groans from the live audience. Next month was June. It is now June 21, 2026. Gemini 3.5 Pro is still in limited Vertex AI enterprise preview.…
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The Transformer Guy Just Left Google for OpenAI
Noam Shazeer co-authored the Transformer paper. It is the technical blueprint for every major AI assistant including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back from Character.AI in 2024. He lasted less than two years. Now he’s at OpenAI instead. The talent migration at the top end of AI is telling.…
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Apple Just Bet Billions on Siri AI
Apple’s WWDC keynote just became an AI conference. The company rebuilt Siri from the ground up, renamed it Siri AI, and powered it entirely with Google’s Gemini models through a multi-billion dollar partnership. This is not a minor update. This is Apple saying its own AI work wasn’t good enough, so it’s outsourcing the core…