Waze Adds AI Boost with Gemini Integration
Waze is integrating Google's Gemini AI assistant into its navigation app to enable voice-based traffic reporting and destination search, aiming to reduce distracted driving. The conversational reporti…
Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
Waze is integrating Google's Gemini AI assistant into its navigation app to enable voice-based traffic reporting and destination search, aiming to reduce distracted driving. The conversational reporti…
Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist for 21 years, retired on July 7, 2026, warning that natural language is not a suitable protocol for multi-agent AI systems. Speak…
Apple shares have rallied 15 percent since June 25, adding nearly $600 billion in value and returning the stock to record territory, as traders sour on AI spending and view Apple's decision to avoid t…
Agentic commerce infrastructure, not ChatGPT ads, represents the real shift in AI-powered buying, according to a Search Engine Land analysis. Google, Amazon, and OpenAI are building transaction layers…
Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026 that he is more excited about automated patch verification tools for C than about Rust, which he said fixes only easy bugs and does not prevent log…
OpenAI is temporarily removing the 5-hour usage limit restriction for GPT-5.6 on Plus, Business, and Pro plans, following record-breaking usage that reached 6 million active ChatGPT users. Thibault So…
Elon Musk admitted Anthropic is winning the AI race, reversing his earlier criticism, after SpaceX signed a $1.25 billion monthly compute deal with Anthropic for its Colossus 1 data center. SpaceX, wh…
Google is embedding generative AI into Google Sheets to make spreadsheets more accessible to non-expert users, according to Eric Birnbaum, director of product management for Google Sheets. A company s…
Google announced five new Waze features rolling out now, including Gemini-powered Conversational Reporting for map updates and voice search for destinations like coffee shops or parking. Waze also add…
Residents of Boxtown, a historic Black community in southwest Memphis, are confronting the impacts of the Colossus AI data center complex built by xAI and now leased to Anthropic and Google, raising f…
AutoBacklinks launches an all-in-one link building outreach tool that replaces multiple services like Ahrefs, Hunter, and Instantly, offering AI-powered prospect discovery, contact finding, email gene…
Anthropic and OpenAI warn that China is stealing their cutting-edge AI through a technique called distillation, enabling cheap, open-source chatbots that threaten US national security and its lead in …
Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who left Google DeepMind, has launched Elorian AI to build visual reasoning models that think in images rather than words, betting that visual data is as fundamenta…
Raxio Group, the pan-African colocation operator, has raised its total funding pool to $380 million from shareholders Meridiam and Roha Group and is entering Tanzania with a planned Tier III carrier-n…
Google Research's SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of Fitbit and Pixel Watch data from five million users, beats existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health and behavioral ta…
Google Research's SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, outperforms existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health an…
Anthropic's proposed $21 billion investment in Australia is contingent on the Australian government providing clarity on copyright laws related to AI training data, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Am…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data, has surpassed 97 million monthly SDK downloads and 81,000 GitHub stars as of early 2026. Supp…
Waze is rolling out a major update powered by Gemini and AI, introducing personalized route recommendations that learn driving preferences, an AI-enhanced Motorcycle mode with bike-specific routes and…
Google Health Premium, offered free with the Google AI Pro plan, makes the Google Health app worse for subscribers than free users, according to an Android Authority review. The Gemini-powered Health …