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Google’s new compute-based Gemini limits use a credit-style system that reportedly drained a user’s entire five-hour allowance after a single failed video-generation prompt. Google acknowledged the issue and said it’s looking into the complaint, as users push back against tighter caps despite some Antigravity plans getting higher quotas. The change makes predicting usage harder and has spurred calls for more transparency or looser limits.
Alphabet’s Gemini 3.5 Flash aims to deliver frontier-level AI at under half the price, with enterprises potentially saving about $1 billion annually by migrating 80% of workloads from Claude and ChatGPT. Gemini’s market presence is growing (about 27% of AI web traffic, 900 million monthly users), new pricing cuts (Ultra plan to $200/month) and the Gemini Spark 24/7 cloud capability bolster adoption. OpenAI’s dominance is waning while Google Cloud revenue rose 63% to $20 billion, and Alphabet posted strong earnings growth with ample cash, supporting a compelling AI-driven growth narrative and a roughly 30x earnings multiple. The article views these factors as making Alphabet a buy, though not based on AI alone.
Google is licensing its Gemini for Home stack to hardware makers, supplying blueprint references to simplify building Gemini-ready smart home devices. The program targets initial categories like smart cameras and smart speakers, expands partnerships with ISPs and carriers such as AT&T, and ties Gemini for Home to ongoing services and AI subscriptions, aiming to broaden adoption beyond Google's own devices.
CapCut announced a Gemini integration that lets users edit photos and videos directly inside Google Gemini using CapCut’s editing tools, joining Canva and Adobe as Gemini’s creator integrations. The rollout date isn’t announced, and while the integration could streamline workflows from ideation to export within Gemini, it may be affected by Gemini’s reduced usage limits.
A WIRED writer tests Google's Gemini Avatar, creating a lifelike digital clone to star in two AI-generated clips (singing to a dinosaur in Dolores Park and surfing under the Golden Gate Bridge). The avatar, powered by Google's Omni video model and gated behind a $20/month AI Pro plan, is impressively photoreal yet uncanny, highlighting safety concerns around non-consensual deepfakes even as Google says it aims to prevent harm.
Google announces its biggest Android Auto update in years, featuring an edge-to-edge Maps interface that adapts to any car display, native Gemini AI integration, home screen widgets, Dolby Atmos spatial audio, and Full HD 60fps video streaming (playback allowed only when parked) with a DoorDash in-car ordering option; the rollout begins later this year across multiple brands.
Samsung’s Bespoke refrigerators receive a major AI upgrade that expands food recognition from about 100 items to over 2,000 by integrating Google’s Gemini cloud models with on-device recognition, adds enhanced voice controls, better shopping-list and recipe suggestions, and a new Reliability AI for proactive diagnostics and remote servicing (with user consent for data sharing). The update requires Wi‑Fi and can still mislabel items, but overall moves the fridge closer to a truly useful AI-powered grocery tool.
The Verge reports that Walmart has listed an updated 2026 version of its Onn 4K Pro streaming box, adding Google Gemini voice search and Matter-over-Thread for smart-home control. The device, priced at around $59.88, carries 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 4K/Dolby Vision/Dolby Atmos, and Wi‑Fi 6 with Ethernet, matching or modestly exceeding the spec of competitors while keeping the remote look-alike design; the listing appears before an official announcement and follows Walmart’s recent CSA/Matter affiliation.
Meta unveils Muse Spark from its expensive Superintelligence Labs, but executives admit it likely won’t outpace rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, or Google’s Gemini. The model relies on distillation from third‑party open-source systems and arrives after Meta’s controversial Llama era, with mixed benchmarks—some placing Muse Spark in the top tier, others showing Meta still lagging behind leaders. Investors initially cheered the launch, yet skepticism persists about Meta’s ability to compete and potential monetization via a paywall.
Google expands Lyria 3 Pro to three-minute AI tracks, enabling prompts for intros, choruses and bridges, and integrates the model across Gemini, Vertex AI, ProducerAI and other Google products, while promising safeguards and watermarking to address impersonation and copyright issues.
Square Enix will embed Google Gemini in Dragon Quest X as Oshaberi Slimey, a chatty AI companion that talks and provides hint-based guidance with voice responses to help new players, in a collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at enhancing the MMO experience and signaling AI’s growing role in gaming.
TechRadar showcases five prompts that demonstrate Gemini 3.1 Pro’s versatility: using adversarial reasoning to stress-test plans, mapping video moods to real-world locations (cinematic geography), applying spatial reasoning to fix a Lego model, generating and previewing interactive SVG animations, and leveraging Deep Research to produce a practical, high-end guide for niche projects like removable book bindings.
Samsung's Galaxy S26 lineup and Google's Gemini integration push AI from chatbots to proactive on-device assistants, enabling features like pre-emptive task handling and automated app actions. The shift points to a future where AI does more behind the scenes on phones, but whether consumers buy in depends on price, camera quality and overall practicality.
Apple’s iOS 26.4 will overhaul Siri by building an on-device large language model core, enabling reasoning, personal context, screen-level awareness, and deeper app integration; it won’t be a full chatbot and will preserve privacy with on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, while relying on Google Gemini for several features. The update is slated for spring 2026 after beta testing, with a separate iOS 27 chatbot upgrade planned later.
Apple posted $143.8 billion in revenue and strong iPhone 17 demand, beating estimates, but shares fell as investors weigh supply-chain bottlenecks and potential margin pressure from memory costs, while analysts debate the strategic value and privacy implications of Apple’s Google Gemini AI partnership.