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Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind

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Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind

The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.

Sean O'Kane 3 months ago

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‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

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‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

Amanda Silberling 3 months ago

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Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user

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Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user

Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.

Zack Whittaker 3 months ago

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Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem

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Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.

Connie Loizos 3 months ago

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From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

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From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Marina Temkin 3 months ago

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Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

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Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”

Tim Fernholz 3 months ago

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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

Lucas Ropek 3 months ago

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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

Rebecca Bellan 3 months ago

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

Rebecca Bellan 3 months ago

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How to use Google’s new information agents

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How to use Google’s new information agents

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Lauren Forristal 3 months ago

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Google Search as you know it is over

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

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Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

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Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

Aisha Malik 3 months ago

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Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

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Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.

Aisha Malik 3 months ago

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Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.

Aisha Malik 3 months ago

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Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

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Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Russell Brandom 3 months ago

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Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

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Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update

Ivan Mehta 3 months ago

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Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

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Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5X more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Ivan Mehta 3 months ago

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Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

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Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

Rebecca Bellan 3 months ago

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