Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says the Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies
Here's What They Can Do Ivan Jovin / Gadgets & Wearables : Pixel Watch 4 gets new gestures as Google rolls out Wear OS 6.1 Nina Raemont / ZDNET : Google took notes from Apple with its latest Pixel Wat...
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app
except when it gaslit me Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica : Google's new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images Robert Hart / The Verge : Google's new AI image creator too...
Sources: Apple has developed an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, code-named Veritas, to help test and prepare for a major Siri overhaul next year
Likely—Never Get to Use José Adorno / BGR : Apple Built A ChatGPT-Style App To Test The New Siri, But We'll Probably Never See It Amber Neely / AppleInsider : Apple's secret Veritas chatbot could be t...
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models
by default for consumer versions … John Dolman : So the last bastion of not training on your data as a default falls. — Whilst I understand the use of user interaction to refine the model … Bluesky:...
Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025
Here's How to Check Yours Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal : Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service Shira Ovide / NZ Herald : Google plans to delete millions of “goo.gl” short links,...
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI
Qwen 39.4k — Text Generation Transformers Safetensors qwen3_moe conversational Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : Alibaba upgrades flagship Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, c...
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys
Upgrade Your Email Account Today Vinayak Guhanarayan / MakeUseOf : You'll Never Have to Create a Microsoft Account Password Again Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : Microsoft makes passwords a thing of t...
Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features like Cursor and goes further than its current coding assistant, Amazon Q Developer
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : Bluesky: @quinnypig.com Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : Ooh, just like Cursor except two years late, with a worse UI, a pile of confusing billing dimensio...
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas
without reading them Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privat...
Amazon launches Nova Sonic, which can generate natural-sounding speech and that it claims is “the most cost-efficient” AI voice model on the market, via Bedrock
but how you say it Ashish Singh / Digit : Amazon launches Nova Sonic, a fast and natural-sounding AI voice model Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine : Amazon Rolls Out Nova Sonic and Nova Reel...