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Google’s new advisory exposes rising job scams, fake reviews, and AI traps
According to the advisory, scammers are upgrading their playbook using AI tools to make their tricks look painfully real. From fake job listings to malicious VPN apps, the scams are multiplying fast and preying on anyone who lets their guard down online.
Apple and Google are reportedly finalizing a deal that will see Google Gemini power the upcoming AI Siri upgrade.
Google's AI Mode has new agentic capabilities for booking event tickets and beauty and wellness appointments, so AI will do most of the work to find and curate the best options based on your inputs. Google first launched agentic capabilities for AI Mode in August: The initial feature could help locate restaurant reservations based on inputs like party size,
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Google Photos might be putting the 'Ask' button right where you need it
A recent app teardown by the folks at Android Authority revealed that Google is testing a new “Ask” button that could sit right inside the photo viewer, allowing users to query their photo library without leaving the screen they’re on.
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Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.
Google DeepMind is hiring a "Senior AI Economist" to explore how AGI could rewire the economy when it arrives.
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Google's testing AI Overviews in place of its classic dictionary box
Google is testing AI overviews to replace the traditional dictionary box in Search results. Some users report seeing AI summaries instead of the usual word meanings and pronunciations. The new AI overviews lack alternate meanings,
Google’s “Project Suncatcher” introduces an ambitious idea: to place fully functional AI data centers in orbit. These orbital platforms would consist of a constellation of compact satellites operating in a dawn–dusk sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, designed to capture near-continuous sunlight.