AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan to get to work on Google Chrome next.

Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves
Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves

Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for it straight away?

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won’t affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. 

I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach

A simple question about the freshness of chicken salad turned into a broader learning experience about AI’s own safety nets.

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok which sci-fi AI they’re most like — and their answers were surprisingly different
I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok which sci-fi AI they’re most like — and their answers were surprisingly different

Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like?

Gemini’s revamped Wear OS design is finally rolling out, and it was worth the wait

Gemini on Wear OS is trading its full screen app for a slick new overlay that finally matches Android phones, complete with live transcripts and a smarter mic indicator.