Topic: gemini models
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Apple Picks Google Gemini to Power Siri's AI Upgrade
Apple has entered a multi-year partnership with Google, selecting its Gemini AI models to power a major upgrade to Siri and the broader Apple Intelligence system. The deal involves Google's cloud technology for core AI features, while Apple's own on-device and Private Cloud Compute models will ma...
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Gemini's 'Answer Now' Skips the Wait for Faster Replies
Google has introduced an "Answer now" feature in its Gemini app, allowing users to bypass detailed AI processing for quicker, immediate answers when in-depth analysis isn't needed. The feature is available with the Gemini 3 Pro or Thinking models, not the Fast model, and works by having the selec...
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Google's New AI Agent for Gmail & Drive: Join the Waitlist
Google has introduced "CC", an experimental AI productivity agent that delivers a personalized morning briefing to your Gmail by analyzing your schedule, tasks, and connected services to help prioritize your day. The tool synthesizes data from Google apps and the web, offering summaries and pro...
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Google Rolls Out AI Shopping Tools in Search and Gemini
Google has launched AI-powered shopping tools in its Search and Gemini app, enabling users to find and compare products using conversational language and automated assistance. New features include agentic checkout, which automates purchases based on user-set criteria, and AI-powered local calling...
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Google's "Private AI Compute" Matches On-Device Security in the Cloud
Google's Private AI Compute initiative enables secure cloud-based generative AI by using encrypted connections and isolated processing to protect user data. The system's security is verified by an independent audit, ensuring that not even Google employees can access data during AI operations. Thi...
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Google Finance Adds AI Deep Search & Prediction Markets
Google Finance is launching new AI-powered features, including Deep Search for complex queries, prediction markets data, and enhanced real-time earnings tracking, initially available to Google Labs users. Deep Search uses advanced Gemini AI models to synthesize information from multiple sources f...
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Google's AI Runs on Flash: Chief Scientist Explains Why
Google prioritizes its efficient Gemini Flash model for AI search features to achieve the low latency and sustainable costs required for global deployment. A key technique is model distillation, where capabilities from larger "Pro" models are transferred to Flash, allowing it to improve performan...
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Is Google AI Plus Worth Downgrading For?
The Google AI Plus plan is a cost-effective mid-tier option offering 90 daily "Thinking" prompts and 30 "Pro" prompts, suitable for users who rely on Gemini for daily assistance but don't require peak performance for complex tasks. A key limitation of AI Plus is its 128,000-token context window, ...
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Google's Pixel 10 Magic Cue Gets Faster with Cloud AI
Google's latest Feature Drop for Pixel 10 introduces Private AI Compute, a platform that enhances the Magic Cue feature with faster, context-aware suggestions while ensuring user privacy through a secure, isolated environment. Private AI Compute combines the power of cloud-based AI models with on...
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Google's Gmail gets AI search and an organized inbox
Google is integrating its Gemini AI into Gmail, launching new features for paying subscribers and expanding access to some AI tools for a wider audience. A key addition is AI Overview in Gmail search, which allows users to ask questions in plain language to get concise answers and summaries direc...
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Google Debuts AI-Powered Advisors
Google is launching Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor, two AI assistants powered by Gemini models that will roll out in early December to streamline digital marketing through conversational interactions in Google Ads and Analytics. Ads Advisor helps manage and optimize campaigns by offering perso...
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How AI Startups Are Powering Google Cloud's Massive Growth
Google Cloud is rapidly growing, driven by partnerships with AI startups like Lovable and Windsurf, positioning it as a key infrastructure provider and narrowing the gap with competitors like AWS and Azure. The division has achieved a $50 billion annual run rate and projects significant future re...
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NotebookLM adds chat history and new AI Ultra tier
Google's NotebookLM has introduced a full rollout of chat history functionality, enabling users to continue conversations seamlessly across web and mobile devices with timestamped responses. The platform has launched a new AI Ultra subscription tier for $250/month, offering dramatically h...
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Google's 2025 Algorithm Updates: 3 Core & 1 Spam Change
Google confirmed four major algorithm updates in 2025—three core updates and one spam update—a decrease from previous years, but the search landscape remained volatile with many unconfirmed changes. The three core updates in March, June, and December aimed to broadly improve search result relevan...
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