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Google's Gemini is teaming up with Walmart to deliver AI-powered product recommendations based on purchase history, enabling tailored suggestions and rapid delivery, as part of a broader effort to close the gap with ChatGPT and advance a new Universal Commerce Protocol for shopping interactions.
Google Gemini Live has received its biggest update, enhancing its conversational abilities with better understanding of tone, nuance, and accents. The upgrade improves storytelling, educational explanations, and accent testing, making interactions more natural and engaging. The update is rolling out for Android and iOS, allowing users to explore new ways of interacting with the AI through voice.
Google's AI efforts, led by VP Josh Woodward, aim to catch up with OpenAI's ChatGPT through strategic leadership and innovative hardware like TPUs, with Gemini gaining significant user traction and targeting key demographics, but it still trails behind ChatGPT in global user numbers.
OpenAI faces intense competition from Google, which is rapidly advancing with its Gemini AI model, prompting a company-wide 'code red' to accelerate development and innovation to maintain its leadership in the AI industry amid market and technological threats.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faces significant challenges from financial pressures, safety concerns, and competition from Google's Gemini, prompting a company-wide focus on improving ChatGPT amidst rising industry and market pressures.
Google's Gemini app is undergoing a redesign inspired by ChatGPT, including a new tool menu, enhanced voice input capabilities, and expanded Maps features like detailed place info and list exports. These updates are not yet public but may be released soon, indicating Gemini's growing competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Google's rollout of its new Gemini voice assistant for Google Home devices is progressing slowly and with some issues, particularly in understanding queries and controlling smart home devices, despite Google's optimistic public statements. The new assistant aims to offer more natural conversations and better smart home control, but early user feedback indicates it is not yet fully reliable, and the full rollout is expected to take until next spring.
The article compares ChatGPT and Google Gemini in their ability to provide accurate information, highlighting ChatGPT's tendency to hallucinate or invent facts, and Gemini's more critical and sarcastic responses that often scold or correct ChatGPT's inaccuracies during fact-checking tests across various topics.
A travel writer tested five AI chatbots to plan a family trip to South Dakota, finding Deepseek the most effective for itinerary planning, while Google Gemini excelled at mapping, and others like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot were less practical.
Google Gemini's new Deep Research feature can now access users' emails, Drive documents, and chats to generate detailed research reports, enhancing productivity tools but raising privacy considerations. The feature is currently desktop-only and will soon be available on mobile.
Apple plans to enhance Siri with a custom version of Google's Gemini AI model, paying Google around $1 billion annually for access, while also developing its own AI technology to potentially replace Gemini in the future.
Apple plans to use Google's 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini AI model to overhaul Siri, aiming for a major upgrade next spring, with a $1 billion annual deal to access Google's technology while developing its own models for the future.
Apple's upcoming Siri update in iOS 26.4 is rumored to secretly use Google Gemini models, with Apple paying Google to develop a custom version that runs on its private cloud, while publicly branding the AI as its own.
Apple's upcoming Siri update, expected with iOS 26.4 in spring, will secretly utilize Google Gemini models on Apple’s servers to enhance its capabilities, including personal queries and general knowledge, while maintaining user privacy. The integration aims to fill technology gaps without overt promotion, similar to Samsung's use of Google Gemini features, and will be part of a broader AI-driven smart home device launch.
Apple is developing a new version of Siri that will rely more on Google Gemini, indicating a shift in its AI assistant strategy to incorporate or depend more on Google's technology.