Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
It can edit images, curate albums and turn concert flyer photos into calendar appointments.
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.
It can edit images, curate albums and turn concert flyer photos into calendar appointments.
The rollout initially applies to paying Google AI subscribers on Android and iOS.
PAIR links compatible home PCs and uses them for local AI inference when they are idle.
The “Custom AI Behaviors” beta builds complex if-then rules from natural language.
Google Pics will roll out to most Workspace customers and Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks.
The feature is currently available as a lab feature on the Pixel 11 Pro running Android 17 and Gemini 3.7 Flash.
Version 1.1 now uses 10 seconds of video context instead of 1 second for extensions.
Claude will soon be able to read websites, click through them and fill out forms in a separate side panel.
Anthropic’s update lets Claude carry project details from conversations into Cowork without a fresh briefing.