The essence of the change is that Gemini is becoming better at understanding the user’s intent. While room-level targeting is the headline feature, Kattukaran also hinted at broader updates rollingout ...

David Greene, the former host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” claimed in a lawsuit that Google stole his voice to train its AI audio tool to produce audio clips using his voice. Greene told the Washington ...

David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on Greene, according to The Washington Post.

Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) unit Google agreed to pay $68M to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated assistant spied on smartphone users, violating their privacy, Reuters reported. A ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...

The top talent behind yet another promising AI startup has been gobbled up by an incumbent. As part of a new licensing agreement, Google DeepMind is bringing on the CEO and several of the top ...

Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a new licensing agreement, WIRED has learned.

Google’s convenient, hands-free voice search on Android is getting a major UI overhaul, proving that even subtle refinements matter. For years, voice search was the quiet workhorse of the Android ...

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The Google app’s voice search interface has been updated with a new look. This new appearance is more in line with Gemini and Search AI Mode. The update is live for some users across multiple versions ...

A noindex robots directive is one of the few commands that Google must obey, one of the few ways that a site owner can exercise control over Googlebot, Google’s indexer. And yet it’s not totally ...

Google Voice might finally be getting a new and useful feature in the upcoming updates. A latest report suggests that the Gemini-powered Notes feature may be coming to Google Voice. It will enable ...