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Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
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Google lost half a trillion dollars in a day for admitting its own AI is eating its advertising
Revenue grew 25% to $127.6bn. The market punished the company anyway, because of one sentence about where search advertising goes next.
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Google will now install an app you described in plain language straight onto your phone, and it never appears in the Play Store
Apps built in Google AI Studio can now be installed through Google Play into a private collection — no USB cable, no debugging. Initially…
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Google has opened its AI-detection portal to everyone, and the thing it actually checks is narrower than the headline suggests
The synthid.com portal is now globally available in English, with OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao as partners and Apple expected. It finds a…
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The crying face is now the world’s most used emoji, and laughing-crying has become the one that ages you
Google told the New York Times the single-tear crying face is now the most popular emoji worldwide. It is used for good news, bad news and…
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Google released Gemini 4 Argon to a handful of security firms. It lost two of its own four coding benchmarks
Google calls Argon its largest and most powerful model, matching OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Opus on coding and security tests…
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Gemini will ring the shop for you — from your own number, on your own network, with a live transcript on screen
The “Call For Me” feature has Gemini phone a business to check stock, book a table or move an appointment. It says whose number it is…
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Three rivals who are suing and outbidding each other want to jointly write the safety rules they will be judged by
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are setting up an independent body, provisionally SAFA — the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. They have…
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"Turn the cameras off": London pubs and theatres are banning smart glasses, and the consent problem has no easy fix
Seven million pairs of AI glasses sold in 2025, and now Wetherspoons has banned recording, anti-glasses posters are on London bus shelters…
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Googlebook is real: five Android laptops from $899, Gemini built in, ten years of updates. What it is, and whether Bangladesh will see one
Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo ship the first Googlebooks on 4 October: OLED screens, Intel or Qualcomm chips with 45-TOPS NPUs, your…
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Feel sick reading your phone in a car? Android's Motion Assist is now on non-Pixel phones. Here is how to turn it on
Google's feature puts small moving dots at the edge of the screen that follow the car's movement, so your eyes and inner ear stop arguing…
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Google fined €403m over location tracking: the three Android settings the case was about, and how to check yours
Ireland's data watchdog says Google collected and kept users' location data unlawfully for almost two years through Web & App Activity…