Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required.”
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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already being exploited, the sixth such flaw this year. Eight days later the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of becoming aware. Google patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome on 3 September, […]
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AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but none of it applies to an American liquidation. An […]
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Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather […]
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Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commission the only regulator still arguing that a breakup is the fix. A year after its €2.95bn fine, the Commission is still assessing a compliance plan Google filed in November 2025, and the complainants who brought the case […]
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Google brings its Lyria 3.5 music model to every Gemini user
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdiction over training done outside the EU. Google has put its Lyria 3.5 music model […]
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Google to fix citation bug with Gemini 3.8 Flash in AI Mode
The latests Gemini model was unlikely to link or cite its sources. Google has confirmed the issue and will push a fix soon.
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Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature
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Google says its AI weather model is getting better
Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that’s supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announcement today, the company says it’s now able to make forecasts with “unprecedented resolution” using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model. It can produce a global picture that’s five […]
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The first thing Apple’s new CEO did was rename a Canadian lake
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. […]
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