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Elissa Welle is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The…

DirecTV will begin replacing your TV's screensaver with AI-generated ads thanks to a new partnership. The entertainment brand is working with Glance, an AI company that has received backing from Google and developed an on-device AI tool alongside the tech giant. The new AI-powered screensavers will begin rolling out to…

In order to avoid paying billions of dollars in fines for violating the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Google is considering changing how search results are displayed, Reuters reports. EU regulators first took issue with Google's Search and Play Store businesses in March 2025, claiming it favored its own services…

Google is tweaking how sponsored results will appear in Search. Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the screen. The size of the ads is unchanged and Google says there will never be…

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Security experts are sounding a warning for Android users who may have installed a phone app to access free IPTV and VPN services but are instead in danger of malware that can access their bank accounts or take over their device. According to a report from Cleafy, an app called Mobdro…

(Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft Copilot can now access Gmail, Google Drive, and other third-party services Users can search across personal data with a single prompt A new native document export feature allows Copilot to instantly generate Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF files from user commands The update is rolling out…

After a protracted wait, we now have Google’s latest smartwatch. With so many similarities with the Pixel Watch 3, where does the Pixel Watch 4 improve or enhance? Find out here. Table of contents Design changes and enhancements Wear OS 6 and Material 3 Expressive Fitness and health tracking Lifespan…

Google designed the Pixel Watch 4 to be serviceable (or repairable) and an iFixit teardown today shows how easy it is to do so. In all, you just need three screwdriver bits (1IP, 2IP, and 5IP), a spudger, and tweezers. Access into the Pixel Watch 4 starts by removing each…