Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

If you want to try Deep Research for yourself, you’ll need to sign up for Google’s One AI Premium Plan, which includes access to Gemini Advanced. The plan costs $20 per month following a one ...

Google, in a last-ditch effort, is trying to say the DOJ's actions somehow affect user privacy. Ironically, user privacy is precisely why these remedies are necessary.

Its user interface lacks some of the slickness and accessibility of Google Gemini, and it’s not quite as obvious how you’re supposed to use it, or what it can do.

The Android mascot at Google's pavilion during the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2025. Credit: Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

In Google’s example of this functionality, the user asks for AI Mode to find tickets to a baseball game, specifying that the tickets should be affordable and “in the lower level” of the park.

For Google, today’s updates — which also included a new AI model, Gemini 2.0, and Jules, another research prototype agent for coding — are a sign of what it dubs the “agentic era.” ...

Google announced today that passkeys are now available for high-risk users when enrolling in the Advanced Protection Program, which provides the strongest level of account security.