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McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system
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McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system

McDonald's is testing ArchIQ, a Google-backed AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant...

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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google has reduced prices for its budget AI subscription tier, escalating competition in the AI subscription market....

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Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a Streaming Speech-to-Speech Audio Model Covering 70+ Languages Across Meet, Translate, and the Live API
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Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a Streaming Speech-to-Speech Audio Model Covering 70+ Languages Across Meet, Translate, and the Live API

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a streaming speech-to-speech translation model supporting 70+ languages...

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Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate delivers real-time voice translation across 70+ languages
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate delivers real-time voice translation across 70+ languages

Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model enabling real-time voice translation across 70+ languages...

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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German court ruled that Google is directly liable for false information in its AI search overviews, overturning...

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Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
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Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which provides near real-time, natural speech translation capabilities....

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Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
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Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a new unified multimodal language model that operates without a separate encoder...

DeepMind Blog
NotebookLM’s Gemini 3.5 upgrade adds a cloud computer and help finding sources
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NotebookLM’s Gemini 3.5 upgrade adds a cloud computer and help finding sources

Google is upgrading NotebookLM with Gemini 3.5, improving accuracy and reliability of AI responses. The update adds...

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Google to Pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI Compute
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Google to Pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI Compute

Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI compute resources in a major deal. This marks SpaceX's second...

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Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond
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Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

A randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone demonstrates that Google's Gemini Guided Learning feature can improve...

DeepMind Blog
Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries
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Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries

Google Research introduces Agentic RAG framework for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, featuring a Sufficient Context...

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Google’s New Colab CLI Lets Developers and AI Agents Run Python on Remote Colab GPUs and TPUs From the Terminal
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Google’s New Colab CLI Lets Developers and AI Agents Run Python on Remote Colab GPUs and TPUs From the Terminal

Google has released the Colab CLI, a command-line tool that enables developers and AI agents to execute local Python...

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SpaceX signs $920 million per month deal with Google for 110,000 Nvidia AI chips ahead of IPO
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SpaceX signs $920 million per month deal with Google for 110,000 Nvidia AI chips ahead of IPO

SpaceX is leasing AI computing capacity to Google for $920 million per month, providing access to approximately 110,000...

The Decoder
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory

Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints including Q4_0 and a new mobile format designed to reduce...

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for compute resources to support unexpected demand for its AI...

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Google’s Gemma 4 12B Shows AI Race Moving to Edge Devices
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Google’s Gemma 4 12B Shows AI Race Moving to Edge Devices

Google has released Gemma 4 12B under the Apache 2.0 license, demonstrating the industry trend of enabling enterprises...

AI Business
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
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Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable has signed an expanded multiyear deal with Google Cloud that includes a 5x expansion of its footprint on the...

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Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM
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Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model that processes text, images, and audio...

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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Alphabet completed a record-breaking $85 billion stock sale, signaling strong investor confidence in AI-related...

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