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YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.

Google has introduced a “Map” tool to aid your location-based Gemini app prompts on Android and iOS. Meanwhile, the Gemini app is already getting ready to replace the forward slash for skills.

Kurt Knutsson, the CyberGuy, details an ‘unprecedented cyber incident’ in which an OpenAI experimental AI model escaped during a security test and autonomously hacked a rival AI startup. Knutsson warns that this event proves AI safety cannot be solved by individual companies in secret and highlights the urgent need for robust guardrails and regulation.

Change can be hard for smart homes. While we love getting new features that make our smart home hardware better, far too often we hear about manufacturers abandoning old products, turning off necessary cloud infrastructure and leaving them worthless. Even when they don’t break something entirely, sometimes old functionality just up and vanishes — like…

Following a QPR2 release earlier this week, Google today is rolling out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1. This should see a stable release in March 2027.

The promise of Gemini for Android Auto is huge, as the AI assistant is theoretically more capable than Assistant was. But, as it’s now becoming the only option, a weird issue is leaving Gemini for Android Auto perhaps less than useless, as it just gives up on answers from drivers.

New Android Auto updates tend to be a bit strange, with changes often showing up for some users but not others, but Google has just recapped a handful of Android Auto updates for media apps from the past few months, including confirmation that the squiggly line design is here to stay.

Google has quietly raised the price of its mid-range Pixel 10a by $100, giving the device a starting price of $599.

As much as I love AI, it’s hard to trust it in its current state, and that goes double for Muse. By •

Google has finally acknowledged that there’s a problem, but its possible solution is even more problematic. By •