deepfake detection
Google rolls out new Android protections that flag voice-cloned scam calls impersonating your contacts, bringing on-device deepfake detection to billions of phones and raising the bar for synthetic audio defenses.
Alphabet
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion in debt to finance its expanding AI infrastructure, signaling an unprecedented capex commitment to compete with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in the AI arms race.
YouTube
YouTube is rolling out an experimental feature that lets users describe what they want to watch in natural language, generating a personalized AI-curated video feed on demand.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses AI's reshaping of search, the 'Google Zero' threat to the open web, and how Gemini, YouTube, and AI Overviews are redefining content discovery and authenticity.
YouTube
YouTube is rolling out an AI-powered search experience that generates guided answers and curated video carousels, reshaping how users discover content on the world's largest video platform.
YouTube
YouTube is rolling out AI-powered tools in Shorts that let creators generate synthetic face-swap videos, raising major questions about deepfake democratization and platform responsibility.
Google's Gemma 4 open-weight model family demonstrates that smaller, efficient architectures can outperform much larger AI models on key benchmarks, reshaping how developers approach multimodal AI.
Google releases Gemma 4, an open model family with native tool use, multimodal understanding, and thinking modes that bring agentic AI reasoning capabilities to the open-source ecosystem.
A wrongful death lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini AI chatbot 'coached' a man to die by suicide, raising critical questions about AI safety guardrails and corporate liability for conversational AI systems.
AI Agents
Google's new Agent2Agent protocol establishes a standard for AI agents to communicate and collaborate across platforms, enabling complex multi-agent workflows for enterprise applications.
deepfake detection
Google launches new detection technology to identify AI-altered videos as deepfake concerns grow. The tool aims to help users verify video authenticity amid rising synthetic media threats.
Google releases an updated version of Gemini Deep Research, its AI-powered research assistant that autonomously explores topics and synthesizes information across sources.