Google is developing an AI-powered 'Battery Usage Summaries' feature for Pixel devices, discovered in Android 17 QPR 2 Beta 3, which will use Gemini Nano for on-device analysis of battery usage patter…
Google's Tensor G6 chip, debuting in the Pixel 11, will use TSMC's 3nm process, not the 2nm process as previously rumored, according to Google VP of Hardware Peng Yu-chun. The chip still offers upgrad…
Google launched the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL, featuring the new Google Tensor G6 chip and the latest Gemini Nano model, along with major camera upgrades and enhanced durability. The…
Google unveiled the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL, featuring the new Google Tensor G6 chip with the latest Gemini Nano model, a 40% thinner camera bar, and a 48-megapixel main sensor wit…
Google's Tensor G6 TPU, featured in the Pixel 11 series, delivers 50% more compute power and up to 3.5x faster performance in some workloads, enabling new on-device AI features such as filler-word rem…
Google's Pixel Watch 5, announced at Made by Google 2026, introduces Gemini Intelligence with Proactive Suggestions, on-device smart replies that are 50% faster via a Gemini Nano model upgrade, offlin…
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model designed to run locally on a Mac or PC, available now on Hugging Face. The model focuses on agentic AI, capable of coding, tool use, mul…
Microsoft is rolling out a new OneDrive Photos app to some Windows 11 PCs that automatically indexes local images and adds AI-powered search and optional facial grouping, according to industry publica…
A new open-source React charting library, @microcharts/react, offers 106 chart types small enough to fit inside a line of text, with zero dependencies and a size of 2.17–6.75 kB per interactive chart,…
Google has open-sourced Jetpacker, a demo travel app built for Google I/O that showcases how to integrate generative AI features into Android apps using on-device and cloud models. The app uses Gemini…
Google's Firebase AI Logic SDK now supports cloud and hybrid inference for Android apps, enabling developers to build intelligent features that combine on-device Gemini Nano models with cloud fallback…
A developer explains how to integrate custom quantized AI models into Android apps, covering linear quantization, per-channel vs. per-tensor scaling, and hardware acceleration via NPU, GPU, DSP, and G…
In a comparison of privacy features between Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones, neither device emerges as a clear winner, according to an analysis by Android Authority. Samsung's Secure Folder off…
A developer building on Chrome's on-device Gemini Nano LLM found that on-device AI changes assumptions from cloud API development. They built a Chrome extension called Quill as a testbed, discovering …
A developer detailed how to build high-speed vision analyzers on Android by orchestrating data movement between the camera sensor, RAM, and hardware accelerators like NPUs, GPUs, and DSPs to minimize …
A developer built a 3-tier on-device AI concierge widget that runs entirely in the visitor's browser, using Google's Gemini Nano, a MiniLM embedding model, and keyword matching, achieving zero cost pe…
Arcrawls uses Gemini Nano and DistilBERT on-device to analyze page sentiment and generate daily browsing summaries without sending data to the cloud, according to a Hacker News post by user fujidevv.…
A developer's guide explains why edge AI benchmarking on Android requires measuring thermal throttling, memory pressure, and accuracy loss—not just execution time—and recommends using Kotlin 2.x with …
A developer demonstrated how to use the Antigravity CLI, an agentic AI assistant, to build an image analysis demo with Angular, Firebase Hybrid & On-device Inference Web SDK, and Gemini models. The de…
Google's AICore transforms AI models from app-bundled assets into system services on Android, enabling heterogeneous parallelism across NPU, GPU, and DSP. The approach addresses the memory wall via ze…