The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required.”
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 acti…
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 prom…
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…
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 c…
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 jurisdict…
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.
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 […]
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…