Launched last year, Preferred Sources allows you to customize the outlets you see the most often in Google Search’s “top stories” section. Now, this feature is available in “all supported languages globally,” according to Google.
Users in the US have been able to shrink YouTube videos while they access other apps for some time now, but now Google is expanding the feature to more regions in the coming months. It’s only available for long-form, non-music content on Android and iOS.
Mark your calendars for September 29th. Last year the company used the event to launch “apps” inside ChatGPT.
The Financial Times reports Alphabet’s president of global affairs, Kent Walker, responded to employee opposition to the deal Google signed with the Pentagon in a memo on Tuesday, saying, “Staying engaged with governments, including on national security, will help democracies benefit from responsible technologies.”
Alongside Quips, Patreon is also getting collaboration posts, a redesigned Home feed, and a feed just showing creators that you follow. The company initially introduced the features last year, but now they’re available to “the majority of creators and fans.”
The ecommerce giant confirmed that it will hold the deals event one month early this year, offering discounts to Prime members in 26 countries. Amazon hasn’t revealed an exact date for Prime Day yet, but rumors suggest it could occur in “late June.”
[Amazon News]
Users can now generate and download files directly in Gemini without needing work-arounds like telling it to export to Google Docs first. Google says the feature is available to all Gemini users and is ready to create files in Workspace apps (Drive / Docs / Sheets) or “.pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .csv, LaTeX, Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF) and Markdown (MD).”
