Google Maps Prepares to Place Restaurant Orders Instead of Just Guiding You

A Google Maps leak reveals that the app may soon use Gemini AI to place restaurant and takeout orders on your behalf.

Google Gemini Omni Flash Brings New Conversational Video Editing Features

Explore Google's Gemini Omni Flash API, a new tool for conversational video editing, multimodal inputs, and realistic world modeling.

Can the new Googlebook succeed where other Google-books failed?

But just before Computex, Google announced its Googlebook initiative, which is set to launch later in the year. Googlebook is ...
9to5Google

Google pulls the plug on Tenor API, killing GIF pickers around the web

GIFs are a huge part of the modern web, with Tenor being one of the libraries that powers a variety of apps including Twitter ...
NBC News

Google engineer made $1.2M by placing bets on Polymarket using confidential info, prosecutors allege

A Google software engineer was accused Wednesday of using confidential company information to make over $1.2 million on Polymarket in the second significant criminal case tied to trades on the ...
CNN

Federal prosecutors charge Google engineer for allegedly using insider info to make $1.2 million on Polymarket

Federal prosecutors in New York charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million in profits from bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket by using confidential insider ...
The Washington Post

Google engineer charged with using inside information to win $1.2M on Polymarket

A software engineer at Google unlawfully used confidential company information to make a series of bets that won him about $1.2 million on the online prediction market Polymarket, the Justice ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

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Techlicious

Googlebook is Google's answer to the MacBook. Here's what we know

Google has a new kind of laptop. It's called Googlebook, and it's the company's most direct challenge to the MacBook in years. Unlike Chromebooks, which use their own operating system, ChromeOS, the ...
Android Authority

Are you still using Sign in with Google? Here’s why you should stop

There was a time in the late 2000s and early 2010s when seeing a “Sign in with Google” option on a new website or service was a sign of relief for me. I didn’t need to create a new username and ...
The New York Times

Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic. The Mountain View, Calif., campus of Google, which reached an ...
Wired

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. You can set up your own ...