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Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

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TechCrunch

8h ago1 min read

YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI

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YouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

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Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services

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Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

DeepMind

8h ago1 min read

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

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2h ago1 min read

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

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Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you...

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2 days ago1 min read

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.