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Google Home gains more Gemini-powered camera features May 07, 2026

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Google is continuing to revamp its smart home app and the latest change includes an update to the camera experience.

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Samsung's Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy', Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead, and Google bought a stake in the maker of Eve Online to train its AI models May 07, 2026

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-The most common type of fainting called vasovagal syncope is normally not dangerous in itself, but it can cause sudden falls that results in severe secondary injuries like concussions.

-Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead

-The company behind the long-running space sim Eve Online has entered into a partnership with Google in which the search giant will take a minority stake. In exchange, Google's DeepMind will train its AI technology on the game.

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Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to provide US government with early AI model access. May 06, 2026

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Plus - Alexa+ is now available for a bunch of Bose products

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Anthropic will pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access, Meta may be using 'dark patterns' to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds, and Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI over chatbots pretending to be licensed doctors May 06, 2026

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-The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years.

-Irish regulators have opened two investigations into Meta over whether the company is sufficiently complying with a European law requiring platforms to offer users alternatives to targeted algorithmic feeds.

-Pennsylvania is suing AI startup Character.AI for offering chatbots that pretend to be licensed doctors.

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Amazon opens up its logistics networks to any business May 05, 2026

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Plus - Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million

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The White House considering tighter regulation of new AI models, cellphone bans do not improve test scores, and one of iRobot's co-founders is now making weird little robot companions May 05, 2026

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-The New York Times reports that the White House may create a new working group to oversee AI development.

-Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be.

-Colin Angle, the guy who co-founded iRobot and helped put robot vacuums in millions of homes, just unveiled his new venture called Familiar Machines & Magic and it's making robots for companionship, and not for sweeping floors.

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ChatGPT developed a goblin obsession after OpenAI tried to make it nerdy by May 04, 2026

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Plus - Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable.

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OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets, Meta acquired a robotics AI startup, and AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars May 04, 2026

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-OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding.

-Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets."

-On Friday, Reuters reported that AI-generated acting and writing won't be eligible for Academy Awards. The new rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take effect beginning with next year's presentation.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is working on AI agents for personal and business use May 01, 2026

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Plus - Google has begun rolling out an update that gives its chatbot the ability to generate files directly from the prompt bar.

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iOS 27 will reportedly come with new AI-powered photo editing tools Apr 30, 2026

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Apple will reportedly introduce new AI editing tools that will let users extend the background of photos, enhance image quality and reframe images.

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