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Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Emma RothJul 24, 2025

Google AI Mode will generate fake clothes to help you buy real ones

Jess WeatherbedJul 24, 2025

Dominic PrestonJul 24, 2025

Gemini is ready for your Wear OS watch now.

Google’s AI is rolling out to more wearables, after the company announced it was coming at I/O in May, then debuted it on the Galaxy Watch 8 this month.

Gemini replaces Google Assistant, and should be available from the Play Store for any watch running Wear OS 4 or later that has Assistant. But if your watch doesn’t have Assistant already, you’re not getting the Gemini upgrade.

Google Gemini on Wear OS widely rolling out

[9to5google.com]

Thomas RickerJul 24, 2025

Improved Google Home this fall.

Increasingly frustrated users of Google’s smart home platform just got tossed a lifeline. After apologizing for Google Assistant’s reliability, the platform’s chief product officer offered this promise:

Jay PetersJul 23, 2025

Sundar Pichai thinks that phones will still matter for at least a few years.

Even though AI-focused hardware products like glasses are “an exciting new emerging category,” phones will still be in the “center” of the consumer experience for “the next two to three years, at least,” Pichai said during the Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings call today.

Google leaks its full Pixel 10 lineup

Emma RothJul 23, 2025

Google’s CEO says ‘AI is positively impacting every part of the business’

Jay PetersJul 23, 2025

Emma RothJul 23, 2025

Google DeepMind’s new AI model helps researchers understand ancient text.

The model, called Aeneas, is designed to contextualize Latin inscriptions by tracking down similarities across thousands of ancient texts. Google DeepMind says researchers can adapt Aeneas to other ancient languages, scripts, and media as well.

Already, Aeneas has explored the dating of the autobiography written by Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, determining the Latin text was most likely etched in stone between 10 and 20 CE.

A.I. May Be the Future, but First It Has to Study Ancient Roman History

[nytimes.com]

Google is bringing its AI-powered photo-to-video capability to more apps

Jess WeatherbedJul 23, 2025

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold might make blue the new black

Emma RothJul 23, 2025

Faster Qi2 charging is coming to iPhones and ‘major’ Android phones

Dominic PrestonJul 23, 2025

After six months, the UK confirms Google and Apple are both big tech companies.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed giving them “strategic market status” for iOS and Android, since over 90 percent of UK mobile devices run either OS.

It took the CMA since January to figure out what the EU did two years ago, and somehow it’s not done yet — it’ll take until October to confirm the proposal, around the same time it will “begin consulting” on its roadmaps to rein the two in.

CMA proposes action to drive more competition on mobile platforms

[gov.uk]

Richard LawlerJul 23, 2025

A few more updates from today about AI.

One Tuesday, the WSJ reported that Softbank and OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate project “has yet to complete a single deal for a data center.” Wednesday, OpenAI touted a deal with Oracle to develop 4.5 GW of data center capacity somewhere in the US, eventually.
CNBC says Microsoft’s hired “around two dozen” employees from the Google DeepMind team recently.
Pew Research dug into browsing data from 68,879 Google searches, finding “users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary,” despite Google’s claims.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

image: Pew Research Center

Pixel 10 Pro looks a lot like the base model in leaked renders

Dominic PrestonJul 22, 2025

The Pixel 10 Pro design has leaked too.

After sharing the first official renders of the Pixel 10 yesterday, today Android Headlines has images of the 10 Pro in a more muted set of colors.

With the 10 boasting a telephoto lens too, the only visible difference between the phones is the Pro-exclusive temperature sensor, the small dot below the flash. That detail gives away that yesterday’s official design reveal by Google is of the Pro too.