Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind’s chief technology officer, will work to combine Google’s AI models with its products “with the goal of more seamless integration, faster iteration, and greater efficiency,” according to a memo seen by Semafor. Kavukcuoglu will reportedly remain Google DeepMind CTO while in his new role.
Vivo claims its X Fold 5 has achieved an Android first: interoperability with the Apple Watch. According to product manager Han Boxiao the watch can display calls and texts from the X Fold 5, and sync health data. The phone can also receive calls and texts sent to an iPhone, access iCloud, and extend the display of a Mac.
How? We have no idea, but hopefully we’ll find out when the phone launches this month.
AI tools from companies like Google and OpenAI are replacing traditional web searches, starving news sites of traffic. Similarweb data reported by The Wall Street Journal shows that HuffPost’s organic search traffic fell by just over half in the past three years, and by nearly that much at The Washington Post.
Business Insider, which laid off 21 percent of its staff last month, also saw its organic search traffic decline by 55 percent between April 2022-2025 according to Similarweb.
Yesterday the official Android Developers account interrupted the WWDC hubbub to tease that the “final release” of Android 16 should arrive today, after seven months of testing. Don’t expect it to include the Material 3 Expressive design language though, which is coming later this year in a quarterly feature drop.
