I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.
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Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage
Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 mill…
Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business
The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.
FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
FBI: Googler who knew outcome of bets in advance made $1.2M profit on Polymarket.
Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.
Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations
Google Home is rolling out a new Gemini-powered automation feature that can trigger smart home routines based on what your security cameras can see. T…
Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google's 2025 Year in Search campaign.
Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2…
YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos
AI videos that are animated, unrealistic, or only have a little AI may still hide their origins, though.
Motorola says affiliate hijacking of Amazon app was ‘unintended’
Motorola says that recently discovered behavior, which saw some of its phones sending users to an affiliate tracking website before opening the Amazon…
Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app
After a flood of complaints about the Google Health app that just replaced Fitbit, Google has responded with a list of changes that will roll out star…
ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
ElevenLabs' new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track
YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them
In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has an…
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users se…
Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead
The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we've spent more time with it), Goo…
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is t…
Google Expands SynthID Adoption for AI Watermarking, Previews Content Detection API
Google's SynthID, designed to embed imperceptible signals into AI-generated content, is adding a new Content Detection API on Google Cloud's Gemini En…
Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction Delivers Up to ~3x Faster Token Generation
Gemma 4 can be paired with multi-token prediction (MTP) drafters that use speculative decoding to generate multiple tokens in parallel, allowing the m…
Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
Google Introduces Middleware Architecture for Genkit Applications
Google has introduced Middleware for Genkit, its open-source framework for building AI-powered and agentic applications. The update adds a programmabl…
These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes …
Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create th…
First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing
Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.
Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business ‘fair and square’
Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision "crashed" through legal guardra…
Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term "disregard," instead of showin…
We tried Google’s AI glasses and they’re almost there
Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view…
The post-search Google era begins
Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing t…
Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore
Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.