Waze Adds Gemini AI Search, Motorcycle Mode to App
Google's Waze app now lets drivers search for stops in natural language via Gemini, adds a motorcycle-specific routing mode, and can dial down voice alerts.
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What Is Perplexity AI — and How Does It Work?
Perplexity AI is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the live web and writes cited answers instead of a list of links. Here is how it works, how it differs from Google, and what it costs.
Read more →OpenAI, Google Supplied AI to Pentagon-Blacklisted Chinese Firms
OpenAI and Google confirmed to the Financial Times that they supply AI services to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, all listed by the Pentagon as Chinese military-linked companies.
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Google Launches Gemini Omni Flash for Conversational AI Video Editing
Google has released Gemini Omni Flash in public preview, a multimodal AI model that generates and edits short videos through natural-language conversation, available via the Gemini API at $0.10 per second of output.
Read more →Google Launches Gemini Omni Flash, Its First Conversational Video Editing Model
Google released Gemini Omni Flash on June 30 — a video model that generates and edits clips through natural-language commands — alongside Nano Banana 2 Lite, an ultra-fast image generator at $0.034 per thousand images.
Read more →Google Limits Meta's Gemini AI Access Amid Growing Compute Shortage
Google told Meta in March it could not supply the computing capacity Meta had requested for its Gemini AI usage, disrupting internal projects and forcing Meta to push employees toward its own models.
Read more →Anthropic Lifts Claude Fable 5 Ban and Proposes Industry Jailbreak Severity Framework
Anthropic is restoring global access to Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, three weeks after a US export control order, and is rolling out a four-criteria jailbreak severity framework developed with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Read more →Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July as Top Researchers Leave for Rivals
Google has pushed its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro model from June to July 2026, while a Nobel Prize winner and three other senior researchers departed for OpenAI and Anthropic in the same week.
Read more →What Is On-Device AI — and Why It Matters
On-device AI runs machine learning models directly on your phone, laptop, or chip — without sending data to the cloud. It is the technology behind Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini Nano, and a new wave of ultra-small models like Liquid AI's LFM2.5-230M.
Read more →What Is Google Gemini?
Google Gemini is Google's flagship AI assistant, available free at gemini.google.com. This explainer covers what it can do, how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude, and what the free and paid tiers include.
Read more →Two More Senior Gemini Researchers Quit Google for Anthropic
Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — both key figures in Gemini development and AlphaFold — are leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, extending a six-day talent exodus that erased roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.
Read more →Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July, Missing Another I/O Promise
Google has postponed its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro to July, slipping past the June deadline CEO Sundar Pichai set at Google I/O — the second consecutive I/O commitment to miss its target.
Read more →Google DeepMind Invests $75M in A24 for AI Filmmaking Tools
Google DeepMind is investing $75 million in indie studio A24 to co-develop AI filmmaking tools — creators keep full control, and Google gets no access to A24's content library.
Read more →Google DeepMind Loses Two Landmark Researchers to Rivals
Nobel laureate John Jumper and transformer pioneer Noam Shazeer both left Google DeepMind within 48 hours, heading to Anthropic and OpenAI as Alphabet's stock fell over 5%.
Read more →Reflection AI Locks In $6.3B SpaceX Deal to Build Open Frontier Models
The Google DeepMind spinoff signed a three-year, $6.3 billion computing contract with SpaceX's Colossus data center, giving it the GPU scale needed to challenge closed AI giants with open-weight models.
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