Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2, an open-weight multimodal embedding model with 740M parameters that maps text, images, video frames, and audio into a single unified vector space for local, …
GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings used custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, built on the lab's open source Taskflow Agent to find and report 24 vulnerabilities in Android a…
Meta's Muse AI agent reached 560,000 daily active users 11 days after launch and topped both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. A hands-on t…
Cybersecurity researchers at Zimperium's zLabs discovered a new Android malware strain called RatHat, linked to threat actors based in China, that uses generative AI to control an infected device's ac…
Zimperium researchers Gianluca Braga, Vishnu Pratapagiri, and Fernando Ortega disclosed RatHat, a new Android malware attributed to China-based threat actors that uses an AI-powered system to navigate…
Google's Find Hub app is rolling out a new 'Remembered' tab that lets users manually or via Gemini AI note the location of any object, joining the existing Devices and People tabs. The feature, announ…
Google is rolling out version 3.1.732-02 of its Find Hub app via the Google Play Store, adding a new 'Remembered' tab that lets users ask Gemini to remember where they put everyday belongings. The tab…
Google has upgraded its Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) with Expert Intelligence, a feature that lets users load ebooks purchased from the Google Play Store into their notebooks for interactive …
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, an autonomous consumer agent that performs online tasks such as filling out forms, making purchases, and booking restaurants, with unreleased materials revealing a b…
Luanti's Android app was removed from the Google Play Store after a DMCA notice filed by Tracer.AI on behalf of Microsoft alleged copyright infringement of Minecraft, a claim the Luanti project calls …
Google's Play Services v26.33 and Play Store v52.9 updates add a feature allowing users to access their phone's apps from Googlebooks, ahead of the platform's September launch. The Play Store update a…
A free Apple iOS app called Zuckoff, developed by Pawel Szydlowski, detects nearby Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, Snap Spectacles, and similar hardware by sweeping Bluetooth frequencies for vendor IDs an…
A developer at Ubisoft Milan built and shipped an Android phone-tracking app, MobTracker, entirely from a mobile browser using Google Jules, an AI coding agent. The developer directed Jules to generat…
WhatsApp is testing a new Meta AI-powered photo expansion tool for Android that automatically stretches photos to fit a 9:16 frame by generating matching content around the borders, as spotted in the …
ZDNET reports that Dicio, a free and open-source Android voice assistant, serves as a viable replacement for Google Assistant, which Google is discontinuing next month. Dicio handles basic tasks like …
Sherlock, an AI-powered face search app developed by Popy Akter, has been released on the Google Play Store, allowing users to search for faces using artificial intelligence. The app, available at the…
Global downloads of Korean mobile apps on the Google Play Store reached 1.8 billion in 2025, 2.5 times higher than the 730 million domestic installs, according to a report by Public First cited by Goo…
Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app despite 800,000 pre-orders, opting to integrate the developer tool's capabilities directly into its Gemini platform. The company confirmed the m…
NordVPN launched a free Android app called HangUp that screens incoming calls and texts for scams using Hiya's call protection technology. The app, available in the Google Play Store, warns users abou…
Google Play Protect, launched in 2017, detected over 27 million new malicious apps in 2025 and blocked 266 million side-loading installation attempts of risky apps, according to Google. Disabling the …