As AI takes over search, Google is saying that users want summaries over the traditional “10 blue links,” all while a new lawsuit targets AI Overviews for their harm to the rest of the web. Over the past couple of years, Google Search has put increasingly heavy emphasis on summaries generated by AI, in turn taking some of the focus …
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So, I don’t want to speak about the specifics of the lawsuit, but I can speak to our philosophy here, which is, look, we want a healthy ecosystem. The 10 blue links serve the ecosystem very well, and it was a simple value proposition. We provided links that directed users free of charge to billions of publications around the world. …
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By BRITTANY CHAIN, US SENIOR REPORTER Published: 23:37, 14 September 2025 | Updated: 10:22, 15 September 2025 A mom’s quick thinking decision to Google her son’s symptoms after he was diagnosed with the flu saved his life. Witten Daniel, six, was rushed to hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on April 28 after his medical condition deteriorated. Doctors initially suspected he had …
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More than 200 contractors who worked on evaluating and improving Google’s AI products have been laid off without warning in at least two rounds of layoffs last month. The move comes amid an ongoing fight over pay and working conditions, according to workers who spoke to WIRED. In the past few years, Google has outsourced its AI rating work—which includes …
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Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines. Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as a way to “transform images in amazing new ways” inside the Gemini app. To get the “perfect picture,” you simply pop an …
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Google Gemini Nano Banana AI saree trend Google launched Gemini Nano Banana AI tool last month. It has now taken the inetrnet by storm with users creating 3D figurines to Gemini Nano Banana AI Saree trend on Instagram with users turning their ordinary photos into dramatic 90s Bollywood-style portraits. The trend, however, has sparked fresh warnings about privacy and security …
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A newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, named VoidProxy, targets Microsoft 365 and Google accounts, including those protected by third-party single sign-on (SSO) providers such as Okta. The platform uses adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics to steal credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, and session cookies in real time. VoidProxy was discovered by Okta Threat Intelligence researchers, who describe it as scalable, evasive, and sophisticated. The …
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is hosting a number of birthday deals on the Google Store. The company will celebrate its 27th birthday on September 27 this year. Offers include a $100 prepaid Mastercard with Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL purchases, money back with the Pixel Watch 4, freebies with the Pixel 8 Pro, $100 …
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In addition to Miami, a new Google Store is coming to Washington, DC. Meanwhile, the Google Store has kicked off a 27th birthday promo. The last Google Store opening was in Austin, Texas this May. Miami is opening later this year, and we now have a retail location coming to Georgetown: 3235 M St NW, Washington, DC. If it’s opening …
Read More »What factors do you weigh when mulling a job change? A better salary? Greater work-life balance? A fancier title or more direct reports? Google’s Yulie Kwon Kim always had one other key consideration before making any job switches. “Every change that I made was not about ‘what is the next big job?’, but ‘what is the next thing I want …
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