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Alongside its announcement of a new lineup of Pixel 11 smartphones, Google on Wednesday introduced its answer to Apple’s AirTag. At its Made by Google 2026 event, the company unveiled a new product designed for keeping track of your valuable items: the $29 Google Pixel Tag. Similar to how Apple’s AirTag leverages its network of […]
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab […]
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own […]
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell), an expansion of its Bright […]
At its Made by Google event on Wednesday, Google unveiled the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini experience, as well as advanced fitness and health monitoring. The new smartwatch, which starts at $399, can track blood pressure patterns and insulin resistance, as well as deliver personalized help and better sleep tracking. Google says it […]
Alongside its Pixel 11 product launches on Wednesday, Google announced it is making fast sharing between its devices easier, with an improved version of Google’s Quick Share feature (similar to Apple’s AirDrop), rolling out now. The feature will now allow Android users to send their contact information, photos, videos, and more with a tap. To […]
Bartesian’s cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks. The Bartesian Duet model that I tested certainly lives up to that description — it’s really easy to serve a bunch of different cocktails with the push of a button, plus your own liquor. But as I sipped […]