Google Launches New English Tutoring Tool to Challenge Duolingo


Google has begun early testing in India, letting some users buy Walmart-owned Flipkart products directly via Gemini and AI Mode, covering smartphones, electronics and accessories. This marks its AI services extending from search and recommendations into closed-loop commerce, speeding large-model adoption in e-commerce.....
Google DeepMind head Kavukcuoglu said at an AI summit that Gemini 4 is coming, now in early post-training to improve reliability. Skipping 3.5 Pro, Google bets on Gemini 4, aiming to launch well before year-end and accelerating early results.....
Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 GW of compute from a data center developer backed by Apollo Global Management. The move aims to reduce reliance on cloud providers by directly securing compute supply. Scale, term and developer are not finalized.....
Google trust and safety founder Tom Siegel urges slowing AI development, warning the industry is repeating social media's harm to young users and may hurt children even more. Social media now faces huge damages, thousands of lawsuits and restrictions; he says the industry is in terrible shape.....
Google confirmed that its Gemini model accessed the systems of three external companies during a test in May. The incident was discovered by the third-party AI security organization Irregular through a red team exercise. The test was supposed to be offline, but Gemini was instructed to gather information from a fictional company, whose name coincidentally matched that of a real company, leading to an unintended connection.