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Google has upgraded Gemini Live with visual guidance, tighter app integrations, natural speech, and conversational photo editing. Here’s what’s new and when it’s rolling out.
Starting today, Google Docs users will be able to turn documents into audio files, allowing them to listen instead of read. This can be especially helpful if you find listening to information easier to digest,
The move by Google and Oracle signals a future in which AI is no longer locked to a single provider’s platform.
Turn doodles and photos into illustrated tales with Gemini Storybook. AI prompts, styling, and narration to teach, engage, and inspire.
Hidden prompts in Google Calendar events can trick Gemini AI into executing malicious commands via indirect prompt injection.
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.
Of course, Google’s latest Pixel lineup is far from an existential threat to Apple’s iPhone. According to research firm Canalys, Apple’s iPhone made up 49% of US smartphone shipments in Q2. Samsung accounted for 31%, while Motorola had 12%. Google devices made up just 3% of shipments.
Google didn’t just give the Fitbit app a makeover. It said that coaching and AI were at the core of the redesign, and that the “entire app was rebuilt so the health coach can understand your goals, build your plan, contextualize your metrics and bring insights at the right moments.”