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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google's AI Mode, its chatbot for Search, rolls out to everyone in the US and will include features like Deep Search, agentic capabilities, and chart generation — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Google AI Ultra, a subscription plan with the highest usage limits and access to its most capable models, rolling out in the US for $250/month — To date, AI Premium is how you access the latest features from Google. At I/O 2025, that subscription tier is being renamed to …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google says Project Astra will power new capabilities in Search, including a new Search Live feature, as well as in the Gemini AI app and third-party products — Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company's low latency, multimodal AI experience …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google will soon let users shop in AI Mode, unveils agentic checkout, and updates its virtual try-on feature in Search Labs for clothes shoppers in the US — There's also a new way to find products you're looking for in AI Mode. … Google is taking its virtual try-on feature to a new level.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google says it is partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, Xreal, and Warby Parker to create Android XR smart glasses, offering AI assistance via Gemini — With smart glasses, Google seems to be taking a page out of Meta and Ray-Ban's book. … Google's second era of smart glasses is off to a chic start.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with a Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has entered the glasses race by partnering with Xreal Inc. on the first spectacles to run an augmented-reality version of its operating system.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini in Chrome, which initially works across just two tabs but will eventually support many and be agentic, for Google AI Pro and Ultra users — Google's AI assistant will be able to help you while you browse. … Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to unveil at WWDC an SDK and related frameworks to let third-party devs build AI features based on LLMs it uses for Apple Intelligence — Apple Inc. is preparing to allow third-party developers to write software using its artificial intelligence models … | CNBC: |
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, alongside a new AI filmmaking tool Flow and expanded access to Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. — The artificial intelligence tool competes …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces Gmail's smart replies will use AI to pull context from Gmail inbox and Drive, launching in Google Labs in July and available first in English — Smart replies are getting smarter. … Gmail's smart replies, which suggest potential replies to your emails …
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Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities — 404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price.| Financial Times: |
UK tech unicorn Builder.ai, backed by Microsoft, Qatar, and others, says it is entering insolvency proceedings due to financial and past leadership “problems” — Once high-flying group founded by Sachin Dev Duggal says its was unable to recover from ‘past decisions’
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The ad-supported web is dying, and the next development to accelerate this may be the agentic web, which Microsoft is pushing via NLWeb and MCP support — Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: … Marc Andreessen, who was there when the web was born, explained in a 2019 podcast …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google launches SynthID Detector, a verification portal that lets users upload files and tries to identify if they contain content made with Google AI — Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, Forbes, and Neowin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sam Altman had for months sought to delegate more responsibility before hiring Fidji Simo, an adept and detail-oriented manager, in contrast to Altman — Fidji Simo is leaving Instacart for a newly created role at Sam Altman's startup as it prepares for a potential public offering| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: four of the world's top 50 tech companies are European, and none of the top 10 quantum companies are in Europe, as the continent lags the US and China — A risk-averse business culture and complex regulations have stifled innovation on the continent, weighing on its future
Bluesky: @martijnrasser. X: @justinsayfie, @fabricapo, @justinsayfie, @kishan__shah, and @davidluhnow. LinkedIn: Patrick Collison. Forums: r/europe
| Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
Michael Arrington says Coinbase's recent data breach “will lead to people dying”, calls for KYC rules reassessment and prison for execs failing to protect users — The founder of online news publication TechCrunch has claimed that Coinbase's recent data breach “will lead to people dying …
More: TheStreet, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash ended its AI-powered voice ordering product for restaurant clients in April 2025, after launching it in August 2023 — DoorDash Inc. ended a pilot of its voice-ordering product for restaurant clients, a year after it poached talent from an artificial intelligence startup to bolster the product.
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