Google announced the launch of its new Skilling Africa with Google website designed to expand access to digital and AI skills across the continent and help address the growing demand for AI-ready talent. The offline-capable Skilling App will enable users from all over Africa to access over 15 Google training initiatives – including Hustle Academy,…
Google parent company Alphabet reported third-quarter financial results that missed Wall Street targets, driven by slowing search advertising growth and a sharp acceleration in capital expenditure for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The results prompted a 10% decline in after-hours trading, reflecting growing investor concern over elevated spending timelines and core revenue pressure. Read: Apple unveils 2026…
Google has officially begun deploying Google Beam, its 3D holographic video conferencing platform, to 20 United Service Organizations (USO) centres worldwide. The deployment aims to help active-duty service members stay connected with their families through real-time, lifelike communication channels. Read: Anthropic files for historic Nasdaq IPO The global expansion follows a successful pilot program that…
Google has announced a long-term strategic partnership with female health platform Flo Health to integrate comprehensive menstrual cycle tracking data into the Google Health ecosystem and inform the development of future wearable hardware. Read: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Review: Two-screen titan The collaboration will first surface early next year through a direct integration between the…
Google Japan has continued its annual tradition of absurd hardware concepts by unveiling the “Conveyor Belt Keyboard”, a mechanical input device combined with a miniaturized industrial treadmill designed to rotate keys directly to the user’s fingers. Read: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Review: Two-screen titan The concept device replaces the traditional static key matrix with a…
Former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warned that “misaligned” artificial intelligence could prove more dangerous than China’s aggressive development push during a New York City Council meeting on Monday. “China is not our only potential adversary,” he said. “With reasonably high chance, we are racing to build and grow our own adversary here at home,…
Google has announced Argon, a new top-tier AI model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation, in a fresh bid to catch up with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. Argon is larger than Google’s previous line of advanced “Pro” models, a company spokesman said. “It’s our most performant model yet built for complex workloads, and we see…
When great teams and exceptional software work together, the result can be more than just world-class systems – it can pave the way for business growth and innovation. This is according to Japie Saunders, managing executive for Google solutions at Argility/Smollan Technologies, who says the successful completion of Smollan’s group-wide migration from Microsoft 365 to…
Google on Friday disclosed the first known instance of its artificial intelligence software, Gemini, carrying out an undirected computer hack, weeks after similar disclosures by AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI raised security alarms about AI models going beyond the instructions of their human creators. Google said in a statement that in May its AI model…
Google has unveiled a comprehensive suite of new software features arriving on Android this September, headlined by an AI-powered expansion of the Find Hub platform. Designed to help users keep track of misplaced personal belongings without needing physical Bluetooth tracking tags or extra hardware accessories, the update allows individuals to instruct the Gemini assistant to…
