Honor has integrated Google’s new Veo 2 AI image-to-video generator into its upcoming Honor 400 and 400 Pro smartphones, launching May 22nd. As reported by Dominic Preston, the feature converts static images into five-second videos within the phones’ Gallery app. The tool processes requests in one to two minutes and works with both portrait and …
A federal judge’s antitrust case against Google has evolved into a debate about the future of artificial intelligence, according to reporting by David McCabe in The New York Times. The lawsuit, originally focused on Google’s search monopoly, now centers on whether the tech giant could leverage its dominance to control the emerging AI landscape. During …
Google is introducing an AI Mode tab in Search for a small percentage of US users in the coming weeks. This new feature will move from Google’s experimental Labs environment to the main Search interface, as reported by Jess Weatherbed. The AI Mode tab will appear first in the Search tab lineup, positioned to the …
Google has expanded its AdSense for Search network to include advertisements within AI chatbot conversations, according to reporting by Julia Love for Bloomberg. This move is part of Alphabet’s strategy to maintain its digital advertising dominance as generative AI technology grows. Google tested the approach with AI startups including iAsk and Liner before wider implementation. …
Google DeepMind’s David Silver and Richard S. Sutton predict a major shift in artificial intelligence development, which they call the “Era of Experience.” In a preprint paper for MIT Press, the researchers argue that AI will increasingly learn from its own experiences rather than human-generated data. The authors suggest that current AI systems, particularly large …
Google has made its NotebookLM Audio Overviews feature available in more than 50 languages, expanding accessibility globally. Michael Chen and Arielle Fox from Google Labs announced the update in an official post. The feature transforms source materials into podcast-like conversations and now supports languages ranging from Afrikaans to Hindi to Turkish. Users can select their …
Google has released new versions of its Gemma 3 AI models that can run on consumer-grade graphics cards through a technique called Quantization-Aware Training (QAT). This development makes powerful AI models accessible to users without high-end hardware. The company announced that QAT dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining high quality performance. Gemma 3’s largest 27B …
Google has released Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, offering developers unprecedented control over the AI model’s reasoning capabilities. This new version allows users to toggle “thinking” on or off and set specific “thinking budgets” to balance quality, cost, and response time. The pricing structure reveals the cost impact of reasoning: input costs $0.15 per million …
Google is leading the AI race with its Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental model, which currently ranks as the best performing AI model across multiple benchmarks. According to Alberto Romero in his newsletter The Algorithmic Bridge, Google now dominates on every AI front. The model tops leaderboards including LMArena, GPQA Diamond, and Humanity’s Last Exam, outperforming …
Google has officially launched a feature that adds links in AI Overviews directing users to Google’s own search results. Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Land reports that this update aims to help users explore topics more easily. According to a Google spokesperson, the links appear when their systems determine it might be useful for users. …