11 published articles
Android Antitrust
Google's app store fight has come down to a search box and a button
Epic's lawyers showed the court that searching the Play Store for 'store for apps' surfaces Walmart, then a 'view' click, then a confirmation screen. A judge found each step unacceptable and ordered them changed within the week.
2026-08-23
Google AI
Turning off Gemini's watermark doesn't make it untraceable
AI content from Gemini and Flow can now drop its visible sparkle badge. Invisible SynthID and C2PA markers remain, so verification still works. The catch: it only works for people who think to ask.
2026-08-23
Cybersecurity
Google's cheap fine-tune found vulnerabilities that Claude Opus 4.6 missed
Google's lightweight Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber fine-tune outperforms Anthropic's largest model in vulnerability discovery, finding 55 unique issues in the V8 engine versus 36 for Claude Opus 4.6. The model is locked to governments via a limited pilot.
2026-07-24
Artificial Intelligence
Google's five-step side hustle guide skips the one step that actually makes money
Google's Gemini side hustle guide is a solid planning checklist, but it skips customer acquisition, sales, and the grind of execution. The real bottleneck isn't planning, it's doing.
2026-07-23
Gemini triple model launch lands July 21
Google ships Gemini models: cheaper Flash, faster Lite, and a vetted cyber variant
Google's three-model Gemini drop targets production AI with better token efficiency and lower latency. 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by 17% versus its predecessor. 3.5 Flash-Lite runs at 350 output tokens per second. A cyber-focused variant ships exclusively to vetted partners.
2026-07-22
AI regulation
Google bought itself a year of Android AI dominance, and Apple still can't touch it
Google secured a yearlong grace period to bring Android in line with the EU's DMA, giving Gemini more time to deepen its integration before rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic get comparable access. Apple, by contrast, was denied the same runway and still has no timeline for Siri AI in Europe.
2026-07-21
Intelligence Artificielle
Google tue NotebookLM pour le remplacer par un agent de code, et c'est un signal
Google renomme NotebookLM en Gemini Notebook, ajoutant un ordinateur cloud sécurisé pour l'exécution native de code. L'outil se synchronise désormais avec l'application Gemini et sera bientôt disponible dans AI Mode de Search, transformant un assistant de notes en hub personnel d'IA.
2026-07-17
Generative AI
An AI that can see its own mistakes and undo them mid-generation
Google introduces CO2Jump, a training-free sampler for joint text and image generation. It uses a self-correcting Markov jump process where each modality's confidence scores guide the other's updates in real time, catching cross-modal errors mid-generation.
2026-07-14
Pricing
Google just made the Pixel 11 more expensive, and AI is why
Leaked European pricing for the Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5 points to price increases of up to €100 and $50 respectively, as a global memory shortage forces Google to adjust its lineup.
2026-07-10
Transparency
Google ads now carry a mandatory AI label. The enforcement gap is the real story.
Google adds 'created or edited with AI' labels to ads across Search, Discover, and YouTube. Automatic for Google's own AI tools. For everyone else, it is an honor system.
2026-07-09
Mobile AI
Gemma 4 goes fully offline on mobile, no cloud required
React Native developers can now embed Gemma 4 for offline inference with hardware acceleration on both Android and iOS. The model handles vision and tool-use tasks locally, as demonstrated by reading a flyer and scheduling a calendar event entirely on-device.
2026-07-09