Weāre still waiting on Googleās upcoming Gemini-powered autofill for Android, but for now Chrome can automatically fill forms across mobile and desktop using your Google Wallet data, including your Known Traveler Number, driverās license, and passport. Autofill for flight details and vehicle information has also expanded to iOS and Android.
A new āFixā button gives Workspace users an option to have Gemini to diagnose and automatically resolve formula errors in Sheets.
As Android Police highlights it will pop up any time you click on a cell with an error in it, and show Geminiās fix in the chatbotās sidebar.
John Jumper, who has worked as a researcher at Google DeepMind since 2017, announced his departure from the company on X. In 2024, Jumper and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an open-source AI model that predicts protein structures.
āThink of it like a driving instructor with dual controls,ā Googleās blog post stated. āThe instructor trusts the student but stays ready to take the wheel or hit the brakes if a mistake occurs.ā Google DeepMindās plan itself lays out āinternal guardrails designed to catch potential adversarial behaviour by AI agents, even as they become increasingly harder to oversee and contain,ā naming methods like chain-of-thought monitoring, asynchronous alerts, real-time access control, and shutdown infrastructure.
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When the Google Meet UI for Apple CarPlay launched in April, Google said Android Auto would follow soon, and now itās here, with the rollout set to finish by June 26th. If you want to take a work call while in the car, you can see your schedule, dial colleagues, or join calls (audio only, both ways) without picking up your phone.
Noam Shazeer spent twenty years at Google before returning in 2024 after the Big G reportedly paid Character.AI ā a company co-founded by Shazeer in 2021 ā $2.7 billion to bring him and a team of researchers back home.
As we discussed, Epic and Google will be back in court July 16th to answer six specific questions from the court ā as it decides whether to force Google to carry rival stores inside its own app store, or let it adopt āRegistered App Storesā in the US instead. What do you think of the embedded arguments?
Pixel foldables get the new feature first, which is being added to Android 17 alongside native controller remapping, but only rolls out āin the coming months.ā Weāve seen control options like this in other foldables before, but itās welcome to see Google bake it into the OS.
