Ads not going away
— I don’t see them [ads] going away. The way people are using Google Search isn’t really changing, what is happening is that it’s expanding [with AI services], he opines.
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The coming AI wars will be fought with data centers and gigawatts, and nobody wants to lose out.
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In a sitdown/interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce 2025 conference, that goes long on the future of AI, cloud and innovations, he let this qoute rip:
— We kickstarted Gemini, we brought Google brain and Google deep mind together, and we’ve been rapidly iterating since then, he tells Benioff, then adds some forward looking comments:
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The IOAA is a top rated exam for global high school students and is held annually with some 300 participants from 64 countries, and consists of questions to demonstrate deep conceptual understanding, multimodal analysis and multi-step derivations.
The CodeMender model is based on Google’s own research into finding zero-day vulnerabilities in computer programs, where they found lots of exploits, and stipulated that humans would struggle to keep up with AI scanners once implemented widely.
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Google goes nuclear; brings Gemini to Chrome
While OpenAI is still working on a browser and others are cautious or have failed to take off, Google is done waiting. They are now building the Gemini assistant directly into the world’s most popular browser. «Gemini with Chrome» will navigate and summarize your tabs for you, offer helpful suggestions in the URL bar, and should soon help you order stuff online. It can even find your closed tabs and search for references inside Youtube videos. It’s rolling out to Mac and Windows users with language set to English as of this writing. They call it «a new era of browsing.»
More at Google’s launch page, Google’s overview and launch thread.
Hands-on with Meta’s new Ray-Bans
Has Meta found the Goldilocks zone of smart glasses? Their recently launched Ray-Bans with an internal screen seems to have hit the sweet spot with reviewers. The Verge calls them the best smart glasses out there, Tom’s Hardware says it «feels like the future,» and Gizmodo writes that you’re going to want a pair. The consensus seems to be that the in-lens screen is quite useful, just about bright enough and it hits the sweet spot with the new wristband.
More at Mashable’s roundup.
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That result would have given it first place if it were human, as the best college teams only solved eleven.
Google also participated with a custom Gemini 2.5 Deep Think and earned Gold status, solving 10 of the problems and finishing second, Google claims.
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This is the first major publisher suing Google for the feature, as research from Pew shows that less than one percent of users click on from links that have an AI Overview on the results.
20% drop in traffic
PMC, which is also the parent company of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, has seen traffic drop by some 20% and affiliate revenue decline 30% since Google’s overviews started on their stories.
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Those are the exact words that Google uses for Gemini 2.5 Flash to describe that you get as much as you can use, so they might be hinting here that there are no usage limits on the API access.
Previously, Gemini Pro users would only get three generations per day, and Ultra would get five. But if you pay as you go in the API, you might get as much as you can chew.
Continue reading “Veo 3 gets vertical video support, 1080p and a price cut in the Gemini API”
Most people have already concluded that Gemini only gives you a handful of queries per day for free, but, until now, Google wouldn’t say precisely how many.
Now it’s official, and on Google’s website.
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Rumor is that Apple will use an underlying, custom model from Google for the brains of the assistant, and Apple has been looking at it for quite a while.
Continue reading “Report: Apple planning an AI search engine for Siri as early as March 2026”
The trick to creating believable artificial images is to preserve the realism and character consistency across edits, Google says — and the new model has a «particular focus on maintaining a character’s likeness from one image to the next.»
Available in the Gemini app for free, it fares especially better than the competition on image editing and changing the scenery of a photo.
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Google owns the whole stack from hardware to software, and are therefore well positioned to measure their energy efficiency, they say.
During the last twelve months, the carbon footprint of a median Gemini query also went down 44 times, the study finds.
The amount of energy expended on a typical prompt is equivalent to watching TV for about than nine seconds, Google claims.
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If you want to share a chat with friends on Grok, you might get more than you bargained for. According to Forbes, the share-button generates a unique URL that is also shared with search engines, and they found more than 370K stored Grok conversations on Google. OpenAI had a similar problem a few weeks back, and disabled the option. No news yet on mitigation from x.ai.
More at Forbes.
Meta AI enacts hiring freeze as part of reorg
The Wall Street Journal reports that it is part of a wider reorganization of the «Superintelligence» unit, and CNBC reports that it is about «creating a solid structure» for the lab. Apparently, investors have been spooked by the massive expenditures on the unit, after spending big this summer to secure talent. Alexandr Wang, head of the Superintelligence Lab, denies the reports.
More at the WSJ and CNBC.
Continue reading “Friday roundup: Grok spills shares, Meta freezes hiring and AI Mode expands”
MacRumors has a handy list of all the functions, in case you are not interested in the phones themselves and want to follow what’s new instead.
Lots and lots of AI
The list includes a personal daily digest of calendar events, topics and recommended playlists, automatic call transcripts, AI writing prompts, and Voice Translate from a host of languages.
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