The workers focused on Gemini, AI Overviews, and other products, and the news came amid conflicts about pay, working conditions, and the workers’ concern that they’re training AI to replace their own jobs, Wired reported. And at Elon Musk’s xAI, more than 500 data annotation staffers were let go on Friday, per Business Insider.
Google says the change is due to “your favorite watch brands offering their own default weather apps on Wear OS.” If you have a Pixel Watch, you’ll use the Pixel Weather app. With watches from other companies, new users will have to use the default or download a new app.
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Google Tables won’t be supported after December 16th, TechCrunch reports. (I admittedly didn’t know Google Tables was a thing.) The tool came from Google’s Area 120 incubator, according to TechCrunch.
The Verge and other outlets have periodically called Elon Musk’s DOGE “fake” or “not real,” because its status in the government is bizarrely ambiguous. As discovered by Bluesky user iucouno and verified by us, Google’s AI search apparently ingested this and concluded... well, something pretty weird.
After Google donned its hot dog suit in court to complain that the open web is in decline, one commenter argues that’s where we see Big Tech’s true colors:
trifge01:
Increasingly with these companies, if you want to know how they really feel- look not at the lofty public pronouncements of their leaders, but at their official statements in court.
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Just days after Google leaked its own new Nest Doorbell and Cams with Gemini, a Redditor spotted all three new products in the wild at Home Depot. 9to5Google points out that stock arriving so early probably means they’ll go on sale immediately after the October 1st launch.
