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Samsung teases Galaxy S27 plans as its phone business slips into the red again

Credit: Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung expects to ship fewer smartphones in 2027, particularly in the mid-range and entry-level segments, as higher memory and component costs push prices up. The company is banking on “Intelligent Eyewear” in Q4 and is researching Glass, TriFold, and other new form factors for 2027. Samsung is also prioritizing a more distinctive Galaxy S series, better battery life and…

Price hikes can’t stop YouTube Premium from hitting new subscriber records

Between YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, Google counts over 150 million subscribers.

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Apple fined $15.5 million as South Korea orders changes to App Store rules

Apple and Google were fined today in South Korea over their app payment practices, with regulators also ordering both companies to change several policies. Here are the details. more…

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s second new frontier model this month

Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model.

Android’s upcoming automatic backup tool might not play nicely with your PC

Got a Samsung Galaxy Book laptop? This Google tool may not be for you.

Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest

Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over

Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board

Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended agent workflows and the full cyber defense lifecycle. Because of those advanced security capabilities, access is limited to selected security experts at first. The article Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just…

This Xbox emulator makes Halo, Forza, and more actually playable on Android handhelds

Xbox emulation on Android just got better with this update.

Your public Discord messages may soon appear in Google search results – how to opt out

Discord announced a new feature that can make your server messages discoverable on Google. Here’s how to opt out.

Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use

Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.

Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099

In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs

Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro. Access starts with vetted cyber defenders, at $2/$10 per million tokens.

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model

As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms

Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced autofill will use Gemini with Personal Intelligence to suggest information sourced from your Gmail, potentially saving

Xreal Aura is a new wired headset powered by Android XR

Xreal Aura will start at $1,279 and will have multiple XR specific apps at launch.

The Xreal Aura smartglasses are now on sale for a discounted launch price

The new wearable is the first of its kind to run on the Android XR platform.

Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs

Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens. Android development is becoming agent-centric too. The article Google opens…

Trump DOE loans $5B to nuclear plants that will power data centers

Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.

TikTok expands into restaurant guides with ‘Must Eat’ feature

The move puts TikTok in more direct competition with platforms like Yelp and Google.

Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview. The real-time world model adds native audio, live dialogue and text steering, with Gemini 3.8 Flash planning events inside the simulation loop.