Contractors working on Google Gemini are comparing its responses to Claude's, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch.

Need a research assistant to help you distill dense, complex material? AI-powered Illuminate transforms published papers into audio discussions.

G oogle has expanded its AI-organized search results for local queries on restaurants. As a reminder, Google announced AI-organized search results back at Google I/O in May, then

Fast Company fed 188 reports looking ahead to 2025 from a variety of industries into NotebookLM (because the tool has a limit of 50 sources per notebook, we were forced to divide it into four separate ones), then asked the chatbot to help pick out patterns in the information. What follows is a human-summarized version of AI’s analysis.

Google has just dropped a significant new security feature for Pixel 9 users—and for once, there’s no mention of AI. Here’s what you need to know.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

Whisk is a “creative tool” for quick inspiration, Google said in a blog post, as opposed to a “traditional image editor.” In essence, Whisk is intended as a fun AI feature, rather than as something that’s supposed to be refined professional work.

Google has released what it's calling a new "reasoning" AI model to rival OpenAI's o1 — but it's in the experimental stages.

Google is planning to add a new “AI Mode” to its search engine, according to a report from The Information. The company will reportedly display an option to switch to AI Mode from the top of the results page, allowing you to access an interface similar to its Gemini AI chatbot.

Niantic, creators of Pokémon Go, have leveraged over 10 million real-world scans to develop an AI-based navigation system.

Google Search might get a Gemini-based AI Mode soon that lets you perform online searches similar to ChatGPT Search.