Google is holding an 'Opening Night' celebration event on October 5 in New York City to showcase its new Googlebooks, Android-based AI laptops that will begin pre-orders on September 21. The devices, made by partners like Acer and Dell, feature Gemini AI integration, a 'glowbar' design element, and AI-powered features like Magic Pointer for contextual actions.
macOS 27 Golden Gate is now available with Apple's new AI-powered Siri developed in partnership with Google's Gemini, refined Liquid Glass design improvements, and a cleaner Safari interface. The update includes revamped app icons, standardized window corner radius, and removal of excessive menu icons that cluttered the previous version.
Robinhood Chain community celebrates the minting completion of CCFF00 Squares. Discussion highlights new tokens launching on the chain, including $IDX (an investment index token), $AGI (Alphabet Inu paired with Google), and other meme coins, with traders sharing portfolio strategies as market conditions shift.
Cloudflare announced a new Disallow AI Training setting that allows website owners to prevent AI model training on their content while remaining discoverable in search results. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to honoring this setting. Cloudflare also introduced an 'Accountable' designation for crawler operators that meet transparency and opt-out requirements.
Google is rolling out a September 2026 Wear OS update to Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 devices, introducing Gemini Personalization that uses offline profiles and online data from Gmail, Calendar, and other Google apps. The update adds new gesture controls like double pinch and wrist turn navigation for Pixel Watch 3 and newer models, plus improved voice activation on Pixel Watch 4 and later.
Google rolled out its September Pixel Drop with updates across Pixel phones, tablets, and watches. The update enhances VIP contacts with one-tap calling and texting, expands Scam Detection to more languages and regions, and adds new smartwatch gestures. A Harry Potter Audiobook partnership offers wallpaper and icon customization with a two-month Audible trial.
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models, designed for intuitive AI conversation. Extended Thinking offers enhanced reasoning for complex tasks across Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, while the base model provides conversational intelligence with visual processing and support for 97 languages. Both models demonstrate strong benchmark performance in speech quality and agentic task completion.
Google released new Pixel features including expanded VIP contact widgets, enhanced Scam Detection across messaging apps and Gboard in multiple countries, Wear OS 7 update for Pixel Watch 5 with improved Gemini and gesture controls, and Harry Potter Audiobook Pack customization options with free Audible trial.
Samsung Gallery is replacing its OneDrive integration with Google Photos backup support, allowing users to securely sync photos, videos, and albums across devices. The feature is rolling out through updates to the Gallery Cloud Sync app and will maintain OneDrive support through September 30. Google Photos integration has already been adopted by OnePlus, Xiaomi, and other brands in recent years.
Relay, an AI workflow automation startup, shut down after five years as larger platforms like OpenAI and Google integrated similar features. The article documents a growing "AI graveyard" of abandoned projects and failed initiatives, noting that about 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned due to funding, competition, or weak demand. Major tech companies including OpenAI, Apple, and Microsoft have also faced significant stumbles with AI products like ChatGPT Atlas, Siri AI delays, and Microsoft Recall privacy concerns.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been coordinating on AI safety measures for weeks, including efforts to embed third-party evaluators and potentially establish an industry standards body. The initiative follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for the industry to slow frontier AI development to mitigate catastrophic risks, though President Trump has dismissed such concerns as overblown.
Gossip Goblin hackathon at Google DeepMind in San Francisco on October 20 brings together founders building generative AI entertainment infrastructure to showcase their work.
Social media discussion from September 2026 about AI capital expenditure trends, focusing on rising GPU prices (B200s up 21% monthly to $7.19/hr), strong AI infrastructure demand for inference workloads, and concerns about whether major tech companies can sustain massive capex investments without guaranteed revenue returns.
Google shared blueprint-style wallpapers for the Pixel 11 series through its Japan Twitter account, displaying the phones' internal components from front and rear views. The wallpapers show details like the camera, vapor chamber cooling, USB-C port, and battery, continuing Google's tradition of offering similar creative wallpapers for previous Pixel models.
Google is rolling out Android 17 QPR1 to Pixel devices with the September 2026 Feature Drop, featuring UI improvements including enhanced blur effects, updated volume and power menus, new Material 3 carousel media player, bouncy Quick Settings animations, and reorganized homescreen app menus with shortcuts and system actions.
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new AI models designed for real-time voice conversations and complex reasoning tasks. The models deliver near real-time processing, multi-language support, and tool execution capabilities, with 3.8 Live Extended Thinking achieving top scores on Speech to Speech Quality benchmarks while maintaining competitive pricing.
Creative experts ranked AI image and video generation models across multiple use cases and capabilities. ByteDance's Seedance dominated video rankings while OpenAI's GPT Image 2 led image generation, with performance varying by specific applications like ads, film, animation, and graphic design.
After a year wearing an Oura Ring for health tracking, the author abandoned it due to practical downsides: fingers change size with weight loss and temperature, rings must be removed during weightlifting, and they trap moisture during daily hand washing. Two devices failed within months, prompting a switch to a wrist-based Google Fitbit tracker.
Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold is the company's fourth-generation foldable phone, featuring a traditional closed shape with an almost-square open display, IP68 water resistance, and an excellent triple camera system. Priced from £1,799, it runs Android 17 with AI tools and offers extended support until 2033, though battery life is slightly shorter than rivals and the display crease is more visible than competitors.
A developer modified a 2013 Google Glass into a thin SSH client for remote development by stripping unnecessary software and using tmux to create a persistent terminal session on their workstation. The setup allows hands-free voice input and seamless reconnection despite network interruptions, eliminating the need for local compute-intensive tools.