Google rolls out AI voice control
Gmail, Docs and Notes can be searched, summarized and created using natural language.
Models, agents, applications: artificial intelligence put to work on real problems.
Here, artificial intelligence is judged on the evidence: what it does, for whom, at what cost. The section follows models and their measurable progress, agents doing real work, and above all deployments — a hospital screening more patients, a power grid better balanced, a public service answering faster. AI-as-spectacle, productless funding rounds and prophecy get no space.
We favour documented use cases with the numbers attached: how many examinations, what error rate, what savings. Non-Western players — Chinese, Indian, Emirati labs — are covered on the same footing as American ones, because much of the real deployment happens there. Every article cites its sources and separates the prototype from the service in production.
Gmail, Docs and Notes can be searched, summarized and created using natural language.
The rollout initially applies to paying Google AI subscribers on Android and iOS.
Gemini can save an item’s location and photo when you put it away.
The feature is currently available as a lab feature on the Pixel 11 Pro running Android 17 and Gemini 3.7 Flash.
The migration replaced Xamarin with native Swift and Kotlin after Microsoft support ended sometime in 2024.
Motion Assist places dots at the screen’s edge and moves them with a vehicle’s turns, braking and acceleration.
The Google app will let users describe the topics and content they want in Discover.
Reddit is testing AI voices that read posts and comments in video form.