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Google’s Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they’re coming this year

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Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over the years, mostly in enterprise and education. Google insists Chromebooks aren’t going away, but the company’s focus has shifted to something new: Googlebooks. That’s what Google has decided to call the new line of Android-powered […]

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Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

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Google’s I/O conference is next week, and we expect to hear a lot about the company’s AI endeavors. The company says there’s so much to talk about that it’s spilling the Android beans a little early, and yes, a lot of AI is involved. In the coming months, Google will roll out more smartphone AI

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Google announces raft of free upgrades for Android phones

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Tech firm to expand AI capabilities of high-end devices with Gemini Intelligence and says new range of laptops on the wayGoogle has announced a range of features coming to Android phones this year, including a new Gemini Intelligence AI system and a tool to help users avoid distracting apps.Revealed in a livestreamed “Android Show” event,

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Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning

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Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathyAnother day, another warning about AI; vis-a-vis the reality we all know, this has roughly the same reassuring effect as a plane fuselage ripping off mid-flight. Starting off with familiar criticisms, such as putting the world

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AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says

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Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacksBusiness live – latest updatesIn just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google.The findings from Google’s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, global discussion about

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Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

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Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar errorDevelopers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres –

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Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews

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The top of a Google search page is prime real estate, but it has primarily been the domain of AI Overviews for the past two years. Websites that spent years optimizing for Google search haven’t exactly loved being pushed down the page by a chatbot and may blame AI Overviews for recent traffic drops. Google

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Chrome’s 4GB AI model isn’t new, but you’re not wrong for being confused

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All of Google’s products have been getting more AI features, including Chrome, which now offers split-screen Gemini chatbot support, the ability to automate web browsing, and more. Some desktop Chrome users have also noted that the browser appears to suddenly want more storage space for AI. This is true—Chrome does download a 4GB AI model

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Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit

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Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much as a clock. Google’s newest wearable jumps on that trend: The Fitbit Air doesn’t have

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Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

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This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had stubbornly cast aside the Biden-era policy, dismissing the need for voluntary safety checks as overregulation blocking unbridled innovation. Soon

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