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Translate can now use Gemini to interpret the meaning of a phrase rather than simply translating each word. Credit: Google Translate can now use Gemini to interpret the meaning of a phrase rather than simply translating each word. Credit: Google Regardless of whether you’re using live translate or just checking…

Material 3 Expressive switched back to a shorter bottom bar, but not all apps — like Google Home — adopted that at launch. That has now changed. Update 12/12: The short Google Home bottom bar is now rolled out on Android — unchanged for iOS users — with version 4.3.56.2…

Photo Credit: Brian McGowan Disney issues a cease-and-desist to Google over allegations of widespread copyright infringement as the House of Mouse gets into bed with OpenAI. Disney has slapped Google with a cease-and-desist letter with allegations of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI to “commercially exploit and distribute”…

Google Translate is rolling out new features that leverage Gemini, including live translation with headphones. Google Translate is now leveraging “advanced Gemini capabilities” to “improve translations on phrases with more nuanced meanings.” This includes idioms, local expressions, and slang. For example, translating “stealing my thunder” from English to another language…

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Even using the word “general” has an air of aspiration to it. You would expect a general world model to be, well, one model—but in this case, we’re looking at three distinct, post-trained models. That caveats the general-ness a bit, but Runway says that it’s “working toward unifying many different…

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3…

Following years of regulatory wrangling, the European Commission is reportedly using Apple’s App Store changes as a reference point in its Google Play Store probe. Here are the details. Why can’t you be more like your brother? In an exclusive report, Reuters said today that Google ”is set to be…

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