AI News (Page 6)
Latest models, products, research, and AI industry developments; updated every half hour.
Senators are looking into 'serious privacy risks' with Meta's AI glasses
US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.
You can now easily find and add textbooks in Gemini Notebook
TL;DR Google has added a new “Textbooks” feature to Gemini Notebook. It lets users add textbooks from OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S. Chand Publishing as sources. The feature is rolling out to users in the US and India. Google is making Gemini Notebook ( previously called NotebookLM ) even more useful for people looking to use textbooks as reference sources. The company announced “ Expert Intelligence ” last…
Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
Google could upgrade Pixel 11 Pro’s HiLight with Highlight
Credit: Shimul Sood / Android Authority TL;DR Android 17 QPR3 Beta 3 code reveals Google is working to connect the Pixel 11 Pro’s rear HiLight LED array to its upcoming Notification Rules system. Users may soon be able to assign the “Highlight” action within Notification Rules to specific apps and contacts, or even let on-device AI automatically highlight urgent messages and deliveries. The Highlight action can…
Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web. In an amicus brief filed Friday, the nonprofit…
Community safety report and new protections for teens
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
This Google Photos bug made edited photos disappear, and there’s finally a fix
TL;DR Google Photos has fixed a bug that made edited pictures disappear from other Android apps. The issue affected photo pickers and apps like Google Messages, Gemini, and WhatsApp. The fix is available in Google Photos v7.97. Your perfectly edited photo is ready for its grand WhatsApp debut. You open the app, tap the image picker, and suddenly your masterpiece pulls a disappearing act. No warning, no error…
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling , a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning , a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark , it scores 58.9%. Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.9%. Each Sterling question costs $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1. For developers, the takeaway is a concrete recipe: co-train…
Google is giving Gemini’s overlay a literal sparkle on your Android phone
TL;DR Google is rolling out a new Gemini overlay animation to all Android phones. The animation uses Google’s Neural Expressive design language and gives Gemini an ethereal look. The redesign is rolling out as part of a Google app update. Google loves redesigning things, and Gemini is one of the things it loves redesigning the most. We’ve already seen the company experiment with new animations for Circle to Search…
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic , an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0 . For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size that is cheap to fine-tune and…
Gemini’s latest integration can tell you if you’re getting faster, one run at a time
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Strava subscribers can now connect their accounts to Google Gemini for personalized fitness and training insights. Gemini can analyze race performance, compare personal records, track activity streaks, and assess how weather affects workouts. The integration is read-only and rolling out in the US, with no confirmed availability date for other markets. Strava is…
You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
Fair use benefits everyone
OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
Reddit’s CEO says Google’s AI Mode ‘does not drive traffic’
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an earnings call today that Google's AI-powered search modes do not help with traffic to the platform, echoing problems facing other websites and publishers . As part of its Q3 2026 earnings, Reddit revealed that search traffic in October has "dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week," and he attributes part of the company's struggles with Google traffic to how AI…
VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that
Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy.
Google is cleaning up Home’s messiest bugs, with fixes for cameras, Matter devices, and more
TL;DR Google is updating the Home app and Gemini with all its latest smart home fixes. Gemini should no longer complain about misunderstanding commands you never issued. A number of fixes aim to resolve performance problems with cameras in the app. As anyone who has seriously built up a household around Google Home can attest to, the service can feel like it’s constantly in a state of flux. New fixes are arriving…
Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens
Baseten has released joey-1 , a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a label and a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It targets high-volume routing, classification and guardrail checks. Baseten prices it at $0.01 per million input tokens , with open weights on Hugging Face under MIT. TL;DR Size: 2B parameters, post-trained from Qwen3.5-2B. 16,384-token…
Strava adds Google Gemini integration with personalized workout insights
Strava expanded its AI integrations with Google Gemini this week, allowing subscribers to get personalized insights based on their workout history. Here are the details. more…
Reddit will move to logged-in only as AI eats search traffic
The company is starting with tests outside of the US.
Google brings AI Mode advertisements to more countries
Adding sponsored content in more markets could make the feature profitable.
As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Reddit will force everyone to log in
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I'm not the only person who appends "reddit" to a lot of Google searches to find answers to things written by actual humans instead of robots . But that openness has made…
Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.