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Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.
Google is testing a Buy button that drops Flipkart checkout inside Gemini and AI Mode for some India shoppers—commerce moving from recommend to complete.
Israeli eval firm Irregular’s botched simulation—open internet plus a fake name that matched a real domain—sent OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents at live targets.
A hands-on Verge test finds Apple Intelligence finally giving HomeKit Secure Video useful scene descriptions — but at a steep premium for thinner, less reliable alerts than Ring or Nest.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live adds a lip-syncing Live Avatar for Enterprise customers — a face on real-time multimodal chat, with SynthID and identity safeguards attached.
Google’s photo-built wardrobe is out of Android beta and into iOS across the U.S., Brazil, and India — a playful AI closet that still sits on a mountain of personal images.
Google DeepMind pairs Gemini 3.8 Live with streaming video avatars—lip-sync, 97 languages, async tools—shipped first to Gemini Enterprise with SynthID watermarks.
Pixel 11’s early Gemini experiment will dial local businesses, sit on hold, and talk through the ask — with a live transcript and a human takeover switch.
Google’s Call for Me lets Gemini dial businesses from your Pixel number — stock checks, reservations, holds — while you watch a live transcript and can seize the line.
Duplex’s sequel is live on Pixel 11: Gemini Call for Me books barbers and checks hardware stock in English, then politely hangs up when the shop can’t help.
Google’s Project Suncatcher puts TPUs on a Falcon 9 next week — a methodical first flight toward orbital AI compute, not a finished data center in the sky.
NVIDIA, DeepMind, and EMBL-EBI open predicted structures for 2,800-plus viral protein complexes — stockpiling structural knowledge before the next outbreak, not after.
New DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in refinement and should ship much earlier than year-end — Google’s bid to end a long flagship drought.