Google’s Gemini is already winning the next-gen assistant wars
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google Gemini
At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of Android updates, including key updates to its AI assistant,
Samsung's Galaxy S25 supports Google's multimodal Gemini Nano AI model
Google reportedly worked directly with Israel’s military on AI tools
In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, employees at Google’s cloud division worked directly with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — even as the company told both the public and its own employees that Google only worked with civilian government ministries, the documents reportedly show.

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Court says Google doesn't have to pay preposterous Russian fine (that it never could have anyway)
Indonesia fines Google $12.4 million for unfair business practices
Google hit with $12.6M fine in Indonesia for monopolistic practices in payment system
Indonesia’s antitrust agency KPPU fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, equivalent to $12.6 million, on Wednesday for antitrust violation related to its payment system services for the Google Play Store.
Google makes Circle to Search more helpful
At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced that it's updating Circle to Search to make it easier for users to find information and get things
Google Steps Up AI Race With Fresh $1 Billion Investment in OpenAI Rival Anthropic
The AI contender to the apparent market leader finished a $2 million funding round and now has a $60 billion valuation.
Google’s Gmail Upgrade—Why You Need A New Email Account
Republished on January 22 with a new warning about the Generative AI tools now coming as standard from Google, Microsoft and others, and critical mitigation, as well as new security advice for those running Microsoft’s email platforms, including confirmation on end-of-support dates this year.
Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion
The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8 billion from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.
3 exciting AI features coming to Google Pixel and other Android phones
Google today has announced that several features introduced at Samsung Unpacked will also be heading to other Android phones soon. Some of these are specific to the Pixel 9 lineup, but most are coming to all recent Android phones. Here's a look at what's on the way.
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Galaxy S25 Phones First to Feature Google's Project Astra AI Tech
Project Astra uses a person's phone camera or camera-equipped glasses to see the world around it and analyze what it sees.
For the first time ever, I wish Google would act more like Amazon
In June, Mihail Eric, a former machine learning scientist at Alexa and founding member of its “conversational modelling team,” said publicly that Amazon had “dropped the ball” on becoming “the unequivocal market leader in conversational AI” with Alexa.
Samsung confirms it's working with Google to develop AR glasses
The two tech giants are entering the race to create a pair of augmented reality glasses, competing with Apple and Meta.
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Google Adds AI Shortcuts, Lock-Screen Updates, More to Galaxy S25 Series
Android features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event narrow some of the gap between Samsung’s flavor of Android and Google’s.