Google wants to kill your expensive voice transcription subscription

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free dictation app for Mac that transcribes and polishes your speech on-device, no subscription, no cloud, and no privacy concerns.

Leaked Pixel 11 wallpapers hint at what color options you’ll likely get to choose from

Leaked wallpapers for the Pixel 11 lineup reveal a more muted color direction for Google’s next smartphone lineup, with soft greens, beiges, and pinks replacing the bolder tones of recent years.

Google’s new AI app wants to replace endless scrolling with stories about your own life

Google’s new Dreambeans app works while you sleep and delivers a small collection of AI-illustrated stories about your life each morning.

Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history
Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history

The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity o…

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet’s record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.

The best Qi2 batteries for iPhone and Pixel
The best Qi2 batteries for iPhone and Pixel

Compact power banks have gotten a lot faster in the past year — and it’s not just their USB-C charging speeds that have received a boost. The newest Qi2.2-certified models can wirelessly charge an iPhone 16 or later at up to 25W. Combine that with their ability to magnetically snap on via MagSafe, and you’ve […]

Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation

U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the UK then rolled out globally.

Google wants you to 3D-print your own Fitbit Air bands

Google is opening up the Fitbit Air ecosystem in a surprising way, giving creators the tools needed to design and even 3D-print their own custom bands.

Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers
Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers

The Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software by c…