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Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.
llm-d 1.0 is unglamorous plumbing, and that is the point: agents are making inference a routing problem, and an open, multi-vendor answer just reached stable.
Google's annual Southeast Asia report says AI adoption is racing ahead of the mobile internet; the numbers are striking, and so is what people say they still need to trust it.
Letting Gemini read your calendar and photos to get you to the doctor is genuinely handy in a car. It also puts your account data on a shared screen.
With TorchTPU, Google joins Amazon in going after Nvidia's quietest advantage, which was never just the chip but the default assumptions baked into PyTorch.
Mistral's first forecasting models are small, run on ordinary CPUs and carry a permissive license. The leaderboard wins are thin, but the practical package is the real story.
OpenAI, Meta, and Google sell agents that roam the web for you — and banks, airlines, and retailers are quietly slamming the door.
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can read your open tabs and — in Work — drive the browser like a junior assistant sitting in your sidebar.
A Truth Social “before and after” of a White House column carries OpenAI’s SynthID watermark — politics meeting generative edits in plain sight.
Google's Universal Cart is live in the US, turning Search and Gemini into a persistent cross-retailer shopping list wired into its own agent checkout standard.
Timed for Black Friday, Google's Universal Cart arrives in Search and Gemini — with Gmail and YouTube next — as Big Tech bets bots will do our shopping.
In a few days, Google's Gemini 4 Argon and Meta's Muse Wonder Full crashed the OpenAI–Anthropic duopoly — and the giants' distribution may matter more than benchmarks.
White Circle says off-the-shelf tools broke image safeguards on leading OpenAI and Google models about 13% of the time—and newer releases look worse, not better.