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Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.
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Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.
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Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.
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New ways to create and get things done in Google Workspace
Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool called Google Pics and updates to AI Inbox.
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I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era
The latest from Google I/O: See how we’re helping you get more done with Gemini.
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Everything new in our Google AI subscriptions, fresh from I/O 2026
Introducing a $100 AI Ultra plan — plus, new features and benefits for Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers.
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Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
Gemini has a creep problem. A few years ago, that little sparkle icon started showing up in all of our Google apps. Gemini in your inbox! Gemini in your Google Drive! It was slow at first, and easy enough to tune out, but something has changed in the past few months. Gemini is creeping. It's […]
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What to expect from Google this week
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at...
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Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.
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Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery
A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel...
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Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership
Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.
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Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
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Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI
AI video-generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.
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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search...
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Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn't initially know what to believe. "There's a lot of misinformation about data centers," she said. "Google has denied taking that land." Technically, she explains,...
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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a...