
Hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after planning trip with Google Gemini
Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.
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Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.

The new model trains on live satellite data instead of physics simulations, cutting the six-hour lag that plagues traditional forecasting.

Google is offering Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal hundreds of millions to train Gemini on their libraries — with a per-character price tag.

Built on Gemini and Nano Banana, Pics ships inside Docs and Slides with 2K and 4K upscaling and object-level prompt editing.

The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.

AI Mode now handles trip planning end-to-end with 300+ airline partners and 10 hotel chains, pushing Google deeper into agent territory.

The London startup's Gemini-powered voice-to-text app ships today on macOS; the dedicated hardware follows in early 2027.

The new audio model handles specialized jargon, tags up to three speakers, and lands while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains overdue.

Google's Gemini app now houses three separately branded features — a pattern Anthropic and OpenAI repeat, and Apple deliberately avoids.

Adversa researchers bypassed xAI's guardrails with AES-256-GCM ciphertext; xAI was told in June and the flaw still works.

Mozilla is betting an opt-in, model-agnostic AI browser can beat Google's Chrome integration on privacy and user choice.

Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria outputs can now ship without the visible tag; invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata stay on.

The new workhorse model posts 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 and 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, with input tokens at $0.75 per million.

The Pixel 11 starts at $899, a $100 hike; Google finally answers Apple's AirTag with a $29 Pixel Tag tied to Find Hub.

The $399 watch keeps the hardware nearly static and bets on offline Gemini, insulin resistance trends, and breathing emergency detection.

The opt-out lives inside a Gmail setting that also kills spellcheck, smart compose, and autocorrect. A Chrome extension does it cleaner.

Gemini becomes the only option on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices as Google finally executes the long-delayed Assistant sunset.

Chrome 149 and 150 patched more security flaws than the previous 23 releases combined, as Google credits Gemini for the surge.

The iOS app builds a profile of the home from public data and manages maintenance schedules, with Stewart holding equity and shipping weekly product feedback.

A study of 15 million Gemini interactions finds AI use is shallow, collaborative, and concentrated on low-expertise tasks.

The chatbot is now available privately inside Threads direct messages, extending Meta AI's reach across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Bangor and Philadelphia sessions draw 70-plus attendees each — six times normal turnout — as patrons ask how to disable Apple Intelligence and Gemini.

Gemini tripled its user base in a year, and Sensor Tower says ChatGPT's assistant market share has dropped below 50% for the first time.

Alphabet's cloud backlog hit $514B and profit tripled to $112.1B, giving Sundar Pichai cover for $190B in annual capex.

Google DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3, AlphaEvolve, and Gemini for Government to all 17 US National Laboratories under the White House initiative.
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