Gemini launches new smart speaker with advanced voice AI

At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concerns that the U.S. could cut off their countries’ access to top American AI models at any time. | The comments come a few days after the Trump administration blocked Anthropic from exporting its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds. The order came after Amaz… At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concerns that the U.S. could cut off their countries’ access to top American AI models at any time. The comments come a few days after the Trump administration blocked Anthropic from exporting its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds. The order came after Amazon flagged to the White House that certain safety gu… The episode has exposed a risk that many international companies have been grappling with : Any company…

Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same physics principles that power nuclear reactors can be misused for weapons development. As AI models become more capable, we need to keep a close eye on whether they can provide users with… | Now, we’re going beyond assessing risk to build the tools needed to monitor for it. Together with the NNSA and DOE national laboratories, we have co-developed a classifier—an A… Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same physics principles that power nuclear reactors can be misused for weapons development. As AI models become more capable, we need to keep a close eye on whether they can provide users with… Now, we’re going beyond assessing risk to build the tools needed to monitor for it. Together with the NNSA and DOE national laboratories, we have co-developed a classifier—an AI system that automatically categorizes content—that distinguis… Information relating to nuclear weapons is particularly sensitive, which makes evaluating…

We’ve just opened our Seoul office . Alongside it, we’re announcing new partnerships across the Korean AI ecosystem, with the enterprises, startups, and researchers behind some of the most ambitious uses of Claude. We’ve also signed a Memo… | Anthropic has signed an MOU with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT to support the safe and responsible adoption of AI across the public sector. Together, we’ll collaborate on… We’ve just opened our Seoul office . Alongside it, we’re announcing new partnerships across the Korean AI ecosystem, with the enterprises, startups, and researchers behind some of the most ambitious uses of Claude. We’ve also signed a Memo… Anthropic has signed an MOU with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT to support the safe and responsible adoption of AI across the public sector. Together, we’ll collaborate on AI safety and cybersecurity, including evaluating model safety… From WRTN to Law&Company , Korean organizations have been working with Claude for years.…

Gemini now powers a brand new smart home speaker with more natural voice conversations.

Gemini now powers a brand new smart home speaker with more natural voice conversations.

After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. | The new Google Home device is the first stand-alone smart speaker from the tech giant since the Nest Audio in September 2020 . That older device arrived at a time when smart speakers we… After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the first stand-alone smart speaker from the tech giant since the Nest Audio in September 2020 . That older device arrived at a time when smart speakers were thought of largely as handy controllers for your sm… Plus, the device will ship with 10 new voices that can have two-way conversations with you about topics…

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type | Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed | New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs…

Building on prior work , we introduce a framework for studying interactive agentic coding based on a privacy-preserving analysis of ~400,000 Claude Code sessions from between October 2025 and April 2026. We evaluate the composition of task… | The more domain expertise a person has, the more often the session ends in success—though the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest. Over the seven months we obse… Building on prior work , we introduce a framework for studying interactive agentic coding based on a privacy-preserving analysis of ~400,000 Claude Code sessions from between October 2025 and April 2026. We evaluate the composition of task… The more domain expertise a person has, the more often the session ends in success—though the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest. Over the seven months we observe, the share of sessions spent debugging fell by nearly half,… Agentic coding has taken off. The share of GitHub projects with coding agent activity has more…