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… A Fitbit Air purchase also includes three months of Google Health Premium replacing Fitbit Premium , which now features Google’s new AI Health Coach. Goodbye, Fitbit… Hello, Google Health The Fitbit app is getting a major makeover and a new name. …
… While most of the newly announced AI features will roll out soon, Google is still seeking partners to support one of them. Google is seeking publishers that are interested in testing a new form of subscription integration. …
… Gemma allows users to tinker with AI on their hardware rather than sharing all their data with a cloud AI system from Google or someone else. Google also changed the license for Gemma 4 to Apache 2.0, which is much more permissive than the custom Gemma license Google employed for previous releases. …
… According to Google, Home users who have signed up for the early access channel should already have the update to Gemini 3.1. Google initially released this AI model on other platforms in February, but that rollout didn’t include Google’s smart speakers. …
… Fenris CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said in an open letter addressed to players that “ EVE is one of the few environments where questions about intelligence can be explored inside something that already behaves like a living world.” Studying EVE will allow Google DeepMind’s models to explore “diffic… …
… If it’s a Google website, that data ends up on Google’s servers. If it’s a non-Google site, Google doesn’t see any of that data. …
… Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out across a wide range of Google products starting today, and Google again claims this model is even better than its last-gen Pro model. That has been a trend with Google’s tick-tock model updates over the past year, but the team says this release is special. …
… But Sahana Mysore, senior product manager for Google Home, told Ars Technica today that Google didn’t kill the devices, saying: Earlier this week, a technical issue temporarily disrupted casting for some Gen 1 Google Chromecast users. …
… Google says Autofill with Google will soon plug into Gemini’s Personal Intelligence, allowing it to fill in more information when you encounter an online form. …
… You activate it like most digital assistants, either with a button on the steering wheel, an icon on the infotainment display, or with a trigger phrase—in this case, “Hey Rivian” or “OK, Rivian.” Because the assistant runs within Rivian’s private cloud, it has a deep integration into the EV’s subsy… …