After months of complaints, Google admits its Gemini-powered Ask Photos search was a miss and is adding a simple toggle to switch back to the classic search. A rare win for users who just want things to work.
Google is overhauling Gemini in Workspace, letting you generate Docs, Slides, and Sheets from a chat box, pull context from Gmail and Chat, and refine drafts with style matching. It’s convenient, but also a little too eager to do your thinking for you.
Google released a new CLI tool that bundles Workspace APIs for AI integration. It’s powerful, experimental, and not officially supported. Here’s what you need to know before letting an AI agent loose on your inbox.
OpenAI released an open-source PII detector on Hugging Face this week. I spent a few hours with it and built three real apps: a document scanner, an image anonymizer, and a pastebin for redacted text. Here’s what worked and what didn’t.
Practical lessons from building a browser extension with Transformers.js under Manifest V3, covering architecture, model loading, and messaging patterns.
Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live audio model aims for real-time, natural-sounding conversation. Faster speech and better cadence mean it’s getting harder to tell you’re talking to a machine.
Google Research’s TurboQuant compression algorithm cuts LLM memory usage by 6x and boosts speed 8x by optimizing the key-value cache, all while maintaining accuracy. Here’s why it matters.
Cindy Cohn, longtime head of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is handing over the reins as the digital rights group fights new battles against AI abuse and ICE surveillance. Her tenure saw the shift from worrying about government spying to taking on Big Tech—and now back again.
The European Parliament just voted overwhelmingly to ban AI nudifier systems, using Grok’s failure to block sexualized deepfakes as a prime example. Musk’s usual blame-the-user strategy won’t fly under the EU’s new approach.
The Galaxy S26 Ultra is predictably Samsung: big, expensive, and packed with features. But with AI shoved into everything, is it still a good buy at $1,300?
