Microsoft follows Google with price bump, forced AI 365 bundles
Two days ago, Google announced that it was doing away with a separate upcharge for its Gemini AI features in Workspace and forcing you to pay for it instead whether you want AI or not.…
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Google Workspace price increase bundles Gemini AI
The big tech giants are all-in on AI. Regular users and corporate customers…not so much. But Google isn’t letting a little thing like reality stop it from injecting its Gemini AI product into every nook…
Google Drive now synchronizes files faster and uses less data to do it
Google recently announced a new update to its Google Drive cloud storage service that will make it much faster to synchronize your local copy of files on your computer with those stored in the cloud.…
Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the browser extensions they submit are presented in the Chrome Web Store. The policy specifically calls…
Phew! Widespread Google Nest speaker issues appear to be fixed
Has your Google smart speaker been giving you the silent treatment lately? Join the club. Over the past several days, owners of Google’s Nest and Nest Hub devices have been reporting that Google Assistant has…
Cue the confetti: Apple has 20 billion reasons to celebrate Google
You’ve gotta love these court cases against major tech companies if only for the discovery and testimony that come out because of them. Turns out Eddy Cue still works at Apple. A few years of…
The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Over the past month, we’ve seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it’s been making the AI community’s head spin. It has also poured fuel on…
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
Google DeepMind’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, says that the model receives extra computing power, writing on X, “we see promising results when we increase inference time computation!” The model works by pausing to consider multiple…
Google Gemini on your Nest speaker: How to give it a try
Both Amazon and Apple are playing it safe when it comes to allowing generative AI on their respective smart speakers. On the other hand, you can already chat with Google’s Gemini AI on a Nest…
Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features
On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release called Gemini 2.0 Flash. The model family can generate text, images, and speech while processing multiple types…