Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
… Each phone came with access to a live concierge service. …
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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
… They're submitted in a never-before-seen frequency and put us under serious load.” And at the end of April, Google announced that it was overhauling its Vulnerability Reward Programs for Chrome and Android and lowering payouts for some classes of bugs, while increasing others. “As the security rese… …
I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
… Neither of OpenAI’s main competitors features sponsored ad buttons in the outputs, though Google recently said it’s not ruling it out. …
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026
… Google tested out a similar feature in its experimental Google Labs in December. The company is also adding new Gemini-powered features to its other services. …
Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses
… Google says the glasses don't have GPS and rely on your phone's GPS, but the cameras on the glasses utilize Google's Visual Positioning System to identify surroundings and ensure your blue dot is in the right spot—something you can currently do in the Google Maps app to calibrate your compass. …
Google's AI Search Results Love to Refer You Back to Google
… Goodwin has experienced the “loops” before firsthand. “Google may think that's great, but I've gone into those loops where I'm trying to find an answer, and the only option is to click on a Google search result that takes me to another search result,” he says. “But, it still doesn't answer my quest… …
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
… Google’s unchecked progress on AI development had sparked concerns for both OpenAI cofounders, and they wanted to create a competing lab with a greater focus on safety. “My perspective is OpenAI exists because Larry Page called me a speciesist for being pro-humanity,” Musk said, referring to the Go… …
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
… The defendants include OpenAI, Google, and Character.ai, a company that lets its users create chatbots with customized personalities. Google is part of the case because it is connected with Character.ai through a $2.7 billion licensing deal. …
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
… Google is now upgrading it with Gemini's Personal Intelligence, where Gemini can source your information from a myriad of first-party Google apps like Gmail and Google Photos. …
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
… They're asking for that anger that perhaps distracts from the fact that seven service members have died thus far, distracts from the fact that this doesn't appear to have an end in sight, that Trump actually changes his mind with every other press conference, as does Pete Hegseth. …