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If there are two pieces of tech I have a love-hate relationship with, it’s USB-C charging and Google’s Pixel smartphones. At their best, both can be brilliantly hassle-free, but at their worst, they’re a parade of seemingly unnecessary compromises. Based on my previous experiences with Pixels, testing the 45W wired charging capabilities of the new…

Google’s latest AI features are becoming less about what version of Android your phone runs and more about what’s inside it. If you were hoping a software update would eventually bring Google’s smartest Gemini Intelligence features to your older flagship, the latest device list is a good reality check. Google now says Gemini Nano 4…

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Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats.

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job.

After beta testing in recent weeks, Google Messages today officially announced custom chat themes and backgrounds on Android.

Using copyrighted text for training large language models has been a controversial topic for as long as AI has been a buzzword. That hasn’t stopped frontier labs from gaining access to books, including physical ones, to satisfy the ever-scaling need for pretraining data. The pursuit of high-quality human data has also led to legal troubles…

Google has introduced platform-wide support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) on Android 17, making it the first major mobile OS to do so. Jigsaw, a tech incubator within Alphabet, says ECH closes a critical internet privacy gap. It explains that even when you’re visiting a website with secure HTTP (HTTPS), internet service providers can still see…

Google is rolling out a trio of updates that boost AI Mode’s travel capabilities, starting with the ability to get price alerts for flights.

Gemini Notebook, formerly known as NotebookLM, is getting a new feature that will let you directly access and cite information from the books you own. Fittingly, Google refers to this new feature as Expert Intelligence, and the whole idea behind it is pretty clear. Instead of citing information from the sources you upload, or pull…