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iOS 27.2 Lets You Wall Off Apps from Siri AI
Apple has added an "Excluded Apps" setting that blocks Siri AI from reading the contents of chosen apps. The EFF counts it as a win for its Encrypt It Already campaign, though it thinks Apple should go further.
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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, built for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks
Gemini 4 Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis index and leads benchmarks for finding, exploiting and patching vulnerabilities. Cyber defenders get access first.
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Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4: a world model with audio and real-time steering
The new model generates more realistic worlds, adds real-time sound, and lets users reshape a scene with text prompts mid-simulation. For now, Genie 4 is available only to trusted testers.
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Google finally ships Gemini 4 Argon
After months of lagging in the frontier AI race, Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, claiming the model can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best.
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Google unveils a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
At its Gemini at Work event the company showed a "universal" AI agent that runs in the background and handles assignments from a single interface. For now access is limited to enterprise customers in a private preview.
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Google Gemini may soon get full access to your Mac's files, apps and the web
Google is testing a desktop mode for Gemini that could let it read and modify any file on your computer, control apps, and act without asking permission every time.
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon — and immediately locks it down
Google says its new frontier model is so capable that, for now, only a set of "trusted cyber defenders" gets to use it.
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Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet — and they went on to hack three companies.
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To Call AI Actress Tilly Norwood, You'll Have to Show Your Face to a Scanner
Viral AI actress Tilly Norwood offers video calls — but first she'll check your age by scanning your face, and during the conversation she'll read your mood. The service shuts down for good on September 27.
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Gemini Breaks "Free" for the First Time: Google's AI Blamed for Hacking Three Companies
Simon Willison flagged a report of the first known case in which Google's Gemini AI model compromised three companies on its own. The blogger himself reacted with irony.
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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 3.8 Live and an extended-thinking version
Google DeepMind has released two models for real-time voice conversation — Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. Both are available today through the Gemini API, Google Workspace, Search and the Gemini app.
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Gemini Advised Packing Less Food — Three Hikers Rescued from Mount Shasta
Three young men planned an ascent of California's Mount Shasta with the help of Google's chatbot and spent the night in a canyon waiting for rescuers.
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Rare Outage Hit Four Major AI Models All at Once
On Thursday morning, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini ran into service disruptions almost simultaneously. A simultaneous outage across all four leading services is exceedingly rare.
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a Cybersecurity Edition
DeepMind has unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash — a workhorse model for agentic tasks and coding — along with a separate 3.8 Flash Cyber variant for defenders, specialized in finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
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Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: More Control Over Video Generation
Google has unveiled an update to its generative video model, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. Developers get scene extension, keyframe control and 4K output.
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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash — half the price of its predecessor
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, an update to its coding-and-agents “workhorse” that arrived just three weeks after version 3.6 and costs half as much.
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Google's Gemini App Hits One Billion Users
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has crossed the one-billion-monthly-active-users mark, making it the company's 14th product to reach that audience.
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Google Assistant to be shut off on phones and tablets from September 4
With Gemini's arrival, the voice assistant's fate was sealed. Google is beginning to cut off access to Assistant on Android devices — the process kicks off on September 4.
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Gemini Robotics 2 controls a humanoid's body from feet to fingertips
Google DeepMind has unveiled an updated model, Gemini Robotics 2, which now coordinates the movements of an entire humanoid robot rather than just its upper half.
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Google: Despite the AI Hype, Workers Aren’t Automating Themselves Away
An analysis of 15 million real-world Gemini queries shows that, for now, AI merely complements human work rather than replacing entire professions.
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