#google-gemini

#google-gemini

In addition to some new hardware changes, the Watch 8 Classic is loaded with AI -- the first new Google Wear OS watch to launch with Google Gemini, alongside Samsung's Galaxy AI. Also: Black Friday Smartwatch deals: I'm shopping sales on Apple & Pixel Watches live now The watch provides you with health insights that contribute to your Energy Score, as well as new AI coaches to help you achieve your running and sleep goals. Antioxidant levels, vascular load, ECG, sleep apnea detection, body composition, and more all help make the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic your personal health and wellness advisor.

Going a step further, users can now shop right inside Gemini and, when searching for products "near me" in AI mode, can access a "let Google call" button. As they browse, Gemini will prompt them for more specifics, and on the backend, call nearby stores to determine availability, price, and information on any special promos.

Now, I can do that thanks to the AI's latest skill. New skill available to all Unveiled on Wednesday, Gemini's Deep Research mode can now pull information from your personal or work Google account. Specifically, the AI can analyze and research your emails from Gmail, your documents from Google Docs, your files from Google Drive, and your conversations from Google Chat.

Clearly, it has a social consequence when you have fewer journalists; clearly, it has a social consequence if the ability to write books in a meaningful, sustainable way is undermined. And there are people who are aware of that, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai at Google, Tim Cook, you can talk with them in a way that they understand their business needs to have this constant creative flow,

Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues around WhatsApp on both Android and iPhone demonstrate how these interactions can go sideways, risking revealing chat conversations beyond what you intend. Users deserve better controls and clearer documentation around what these AI features can access.

GM announced that "eyes-off" highway driving is coming to its electric Cadillac Escalade SUV in 2028. The company is also integrating Google Gemini and conversational AI into its vehicles next year. GM said its eyes-off technology will allow drivers to read or respond to texts, and relies on LiDAR technology.

I trained a Google Gemini model on my most effective emails, giving it a large sample of my writing and Devpost context. When drafting important messages, I collaborate with the model to ensure I'm expressing myself as I intend. It's still my tone and ideas, but the model helps me deliver consistently strong communication. I also built a Google Gemini CLI "Executive Assistant" to replace my visual Kanban board with a markdown-based, conversational task manager.

People are already using AI to write emails and documents -- some even suspect their friends are using ChatGPT to write heartfelt texts, too. In that vein, Gemini is coming to Google Chat, Google announced on Tuesday. The AI assistant can refine messages and catch grammar or spelling errors for Google Chat users. Google also highlighted Gemini's usefulness when composing a message to a large group, a stakeholder, or someone communicating in a second language.

But it excels at something far more powerful, and potentially sinister-editing existing images to add elements that were never there, in a way that's so seamless and convincing that even experts like myself can't detect the changes. That makes Nano Banana (and its inevitable copycats) both invaluable creative tools and an existential threat to the trustworthiness of photos-both new and historical.

The new Androidify app lets you make your own bot avatar, but it does so based on your own photo or text prompt, meaning it has an incredibly deep level of customization. Google says the app uses a combination of tools to create your bot -- Gemini 2.5 Flash to caption the photo, Imagen to generate your custom Android bot, and Veo 3 to animate your bot with different vibes.

The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year, according to the latest stats from analytics provider Comscore. Though all three of the major AIs enjoyed growth, one left the other two in the dust. For the three months , use of Microsoft Copilot surged by 175%, making it the fastest growing chatbot of all. In second place was Google Gemini with a gain of 68%, followed by OpenAI's ChatGPT with an increase of 18%.

With the Galaxy Watch8 Series, Samsung is doing just that. For the first time ever, a smartwatch features Google's Gemini AI built in - not as a voice assistant you have to dig for, not as a cloud service that lags behind - but as a native, on-device intelligence layer that powers everything from workouts to grocery lists to urgent work messages.

Google's Veo 3 videos have blurred the line between truth and fiction, allowing users to create remarkably realistic AI-generated videos by simply describing content.