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Ocean, an agentic email security platform, claims its AI can thoroughly analyze the context of every incoming email to detect fraud and impersonation attempts.

The jury's speedy decision to reject Elon Musk's lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk's case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it.

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.

Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.

At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update.

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

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