Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model, able to answer questions by exploring and considering multiple ideas simultaneously and then using those outputs to choose the best answer. Subscribers to Google’s $250-per-month Ultra subscription will gain access to Gemini 2.5 Deep Think in the Gemini app starting …
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Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media …
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After previewing at I/O 2025 in May, Google is now rolling out the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think mode to AI Ultra subscribers. Google says “Deep Think pushes the frontier of thinking capabilities by leveraging parallel thinking techniques.” This approach enables Gemini to generate many ideas at once and consider them simultaneously, even revising or combining different ideas over time, before …
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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.” The original story follows. It’s a …
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Much like the Google Pixel 10 prices, the Pixel Watch 4 prices are also staying the same this year. The Google Pixel Watch 4 41mm will cost $349 for the WiFi version, and $399 for the LTE version. The larger 45mm model will cost $399 for WiFi and $449 for LTE. This does keep the Pixel Watch 4 pretty competitive …
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome on Android will let you require biometric authentication before autofilling passwords, adding a much-needed layer of security. This feature closes a loophole, as the existing biometric protection for autofill in Google Password Manager currently only applies to apps, not the browser. A newly discovered setting explicitly states this protection is “coming soon …
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Google’s been on a tear with visual updates for its apps lately. In June, some users started seeing changes in Google’s phone app, though that rollout was limited to beta testers. Today, it seems like the rollout is finally going wide: multiple members of AP’s staff (myself included) report that Phone by Google has a new look on their devices. …
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Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Google’s app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. Today, that appeals court affirmed the lower court’s decision in Epic v. Google, according to an full opinion you can read at the bottom of this story — and Google …
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The piecemeal beta rollout of M3 Expressive (M3E) in the Google Phone app continues with version 185. Google is using M3 Expressive as an opportunity to revamp how the Phone app is organized, with iOS 26 amusingly also doing the same thing with its big Liquid Glass redesign this year. The “Favorites” tab is being merged with “Recents” and is …
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Google AI Mode added the ability to upload PDFs and images for your queries. Google also added a Canvas feature to help you plan things while you are asking AI Mode questions. Finally, Google upgraded Search while browsing to add in AI Mode. This is all part of the announcements Google recently made, including Search Live with video. (1) Upload …
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