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News on Google’s AI projects like Assistant, DeepMind, and AI tools.

Hikers Rescued From Mount Shasta After Relying on Google Gemini for Trip Planning

A Gemini rescue on Mount Shasta shows how AI trip planning can go wrong when hikers rely on chatbot advice instead of local experts.

Gemini Spark is coming to Google Photos, letting U.S. subscribers edit images, build albums and automate photo tasks.

Google’s Gemini voice modes are rolling out in Gmail, Docs and Keep, bringing hands-free search, summaries and drafting to mobile users.

Google’s new AI weather model WeatherNext 3 improves rain, resolution and hourly forecasts, and will soon power Search, Maps and Gemini.

Gemini 3.8 Flash adds stronger reasoning and agent skills, but Google warns the new model may use more tokens and raise costs.

Google’s Gemini partnership with MrBeast puts AI, health and Fitbit products into a wilderness survival video launching September 5.

Google’s Hollywood AI licensing push could bring huge payouts to studios — and help the company reshape public opinion about generative AI.

Google’s Android update adds motion sickness relief, Gemini-powered accessibility, item tracking and new Google Messages personalization.

Google’s AI design tool Pics is coming to Workspace, offering prompt-based image creation and editing for Docs, Slides and premium users.

Google Pics brings AI design into Workspace, giving users Canva-style image generation, editing and upscaling inside Docs and Slides.