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Apple, Google and Meta are pushing new AI devices and assistants amid growing privacy concerns around wearables.
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Apple, Google and Meta are pushing new AI devices and assistants amid growing privacy concerns around wearables.
Google has been trailing OpenAI and Anthropic for much of 2026, analysts say Gemini 4 puts it back in the frontier AI conversation.
The company is investigating how to create servers in the Earth's orbit. SpaceX and other companies take advantage of it
Google is promising major advances in coding and cybersecurity, but the company is quickly falling behind in personal agents.
Google's tensor processing units were launched into orbit on Planet Labs satellites.
Gemini 4 Argon is Alphabet's most advanced model yet, with major coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work improvements.
AI giant launches 'dots' to rival Meta's Muse and Google's Gemini Spark.
On 27 September, Google Earth satellite imaging software updated its map of the southern Gaza Strip. These new open-access images highlight the almost total destruction by the Israeli army of some former residential areas, such as the city of Rafah.
The implementation has renewed satellite images from much of the Gaza Strip with photographs of February 2026 that reflect the effects of the Israeli offensive
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking the leaders of Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft about AI and data center subsidies authorized by GOP legislation.
The manager holds positions in Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia, although he believes that the best opportunities are today outside the United States
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new Muse Charm device is intended to put his company ahead of rivals like OpenAI and Google in AI agents and consumer hardware.
Advances in this technology can be reoriented and adjusted to respond to specific needs of the population, rather than to be models that do everything
Ireland, on behalf of the European Union, said Monday it had fined Google €403 million for improperly using users' location data between May 2018 and February 2020. However, the eight-year delay drew some criticism, as the European Consumer Organisation said that "can be as harmful as no enforcement at all".
The penalty follows an inquiry launched into the tech giant six years ago, following complaints from several European consumer rights organisations.
The Irish authority concludes that the company failed to treat the location between 2018 and 2020
The incidents in Gemini occurred in May during a test by an independent company that conducts cyber security assessments
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC.
During a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, Google's Gemini AI model accessed the internet and hacked other companies. This is the first known instance of Google's AI systems engaging in such behavior autonomously.
Google discloses first breakout by Gemini following similar incidents by Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI.