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Google Opens Early Access to ‘Willow’ Quantum Processor, Invites Experimental Proposals

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Insider Brief Google launched the Willow Early Access Program, offering selected researchers exclusive access to its not-yet-public quantum processor to run tailored experiments. Applicants must submit anonymized proposals by May 15, 2026, detailing executable quantum circuits, measurable outcomes, and a dedicated researcher to carry out the work. Selection will prioritize feasibility on current hardware, including … Read more

Google’s new Gemini API Agent Skill patches the knowledge gap AI models have with their own SDKs

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Google has built an “Agent Skill” for the Gemini API that tackles a fundamental problem with AI coding assistants: once trained, language models don’t know about their own updates or current best practices. The new skill feeds coding agents up-to-date information about current models, SDKs, and sample code. In tests across 117 tasks, the top-performing … Read more

Google’s new Gemini update makes it easy to import memories from ChatGPT and Claude

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Google is borrowing Anthropic’s memory import approach, letting Gemini users bring over saved reminders, preferences, and full chat histories from apps like ChatGPT and Claude. The process works by copying a suggested prompt into the previous AI app, generating a summary, and pasting it into Gemini, which saves the information in its own context. Users can … Read more

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

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When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just made it significantly easier for users of those other chatbots to defect to Gemini. On Thursday, the company announced what … Read more

Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

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Google is rolling out two new Gemini tools on Thursday which could attract users who are thinking about switching their preferred AI chatbot but don’t want to “retrain” a new AI. Gemini’s new “Import Memory” and “Import Chat History” features help users quickly copy over everything their current AI already knows about them with a … Read more

Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

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Google announced on Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to more countries. With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, … Read more

Meta and YouTube found liable in US social media addiction trial – The Irish Times

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Meta and YouTube have been found liable for negligence for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a US jury ruled on Wednesday. The tech companies have also been found liable for failure to warn users. The jury awarded the plaintiffs in the case compensatory damages of … Read more

Google closes Wiz deal & unveils AI security tools

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Google has completed its acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, bringing it into Google Cloud’s security division. The announcement came alongside a broader set of security product updates, including new AI-based tools for security operations, threat intelligence and cloud protection. Wiz will form part of a broader multicloud security offering for organisations running data and … Read more