Alphabet’s selloff puts AI spending and search economics under scrutiny
The BBC reports Alphabet losing over $500 billion in value after earnings. Revenue, profit and cash flow tell different parts of the AI-investment story.
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Meta’s Style Sketch builds outfit ideas from a digital wardrobe
Meta’s Style Sketch uses an uploaded wardrobe to suggest outfits and packing plans. TechCrunch reports access in three markets, with wider plans unknown.
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe targets multilingual recorded audio
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe offers open weights for audio in up to 40 languages. Translation and speaker limits differ; live streams are excluded.
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon with a restricted cyber-defender rollout
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon for restricted cyber-defender access. External benchmarks omit guardrails; wider product availability remains forthcoming.
Gemini adds a library of interactive explorations to its student hub
Gemini’s student hub adds labelled interactive scenes across topics. Direct chat access and audio narration remain planned, with language support varying.
Chrome begins suggesting Gmail details through enhanced autofill
Chrome’s enhanced autofill suggests Gmail booking and order details. The US rollout requires Gemini in Chrome with Personal Intelligence enabled.
Meta’s Waddle World combines a pixel pet with a spoken daily journal
The Verge reports Meta’s Waddle World blends a pet, conversation and journaling. Its reported adult-only Philippines launch has no wider release date.
Microsoft brings the Copilot agent harness to Foundry developers
Microsoft opens its Copilot orchestration layer through an SDK and Foundry service. Model choice, permissions and task acceptance still need testing.
UCSB funds five early projects targeting computing’s energy costs
UCSB seeds five projects spanning AI reasoning, task-sized inference, cooling and computing hardware. Projected energy savings need demonstrations.
Google expands AI Mode ads to ten markets, including Canada
Google expands AI Mode ads to ten markets including Canada. US follow-up-query ads have a separate rollout; click rates do not establish campaign returns.
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