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Google Launches Market Access Programme to Scale Indian AI startups

Google has announced a new market access initiative and two open-source AI models to support Indian startups from early-stage development to global scale at the Google AI Startups Conclave held in the national capital. Google Market Access Program aims to help Indian AI startups transition from pilot projects to long-term enterprise contracts. “Indian startups are […]

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Gemini Introduces Personal Intelligence to Connect Gmail, Photos and Other Google Apps

Google has introduced Personal Intelligence, a new feature for its AI assistant Gemini, which allows users to connect their Google apps—such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search—to receive more context-aware responses.  Access to Personal Intelligence will roll out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the US.

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive “personal intelligence” in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don’t want Gemini to

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Google Updates MedGemma With Imaging Support, Launches MedASR for Clinical Dictation

Google has released MedGemma 1.5, an updated version of its open healthcare-focused AI model. The company said the model expands support for CT scans, MRI and histopathology, and also introduced MedASR, a medical speech-to-text system for clinical dictation and healthcare workflows. Both models are available via the AI community Hugging Face and Google Cloud’s AI

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Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian, Hegseth said the integration would place “the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department.”

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Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

On Tuesday Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local property tax reductions. As demand for generative AI services has increased over the past year, Big Tech companies have been racing to spin up massive new

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Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1 that adds new capabilities when you provide the model with reference material, known as Ingredients to Video. The results should be more consistent, and output supports vertical video and

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Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

On Sunday, Google removed some of its AI Overviews health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk by false and misleading information. The removals came after the newspaper found that Google’s generative AI feature delivered inaccurate health information at the top of search results, potentially leading seriously ill patients to

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Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the platform. This, along with the creation of sexualized images of children in the more compliant Grok, has led

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Apple says its new AI-powered Siri will use Google’s Gemini language models

The “more intelligent” version of Siri that Apple plans to release later this year will be backed by Google’s Gemini language models, the company announced today. CNBC reports that the deal is part of a “multi-year partnership” between Apple and Google that will allow Apple to use Google’s AI models in its own software. “After

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