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Search "app store" and Only Get Walmart? Judge Catches Google Playing Dumb
The judge overseeing the Epic antitrust case has determined that Google rigged the game on third-party app stores—search results got diluted and the "install" button got swapped for "view." Google now has one week to fix it.
Google Makes AI Watermarks Optional: You Can Now Turn Off That Sparkle Icon
Google VP Josh Woodward has announced that Nano Banana, Omni, Lyria, and other models will allow users to remove visible AI watermarks, leaving only the invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata mandatory. Regulated regions like the EU and South Korea remain unaffected.
Three-Week Iteration Cycle: Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Playing the Price War
Just three weeks after 3.6 Flash launched, Google rolled out 3.7 Flash, focused on software engineering and agentic tasks, priced well below Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra. Meanwhile, OpenAI is fighting a different battle with Sol Ultrafast, hitting 750 tokens per second.
New Model Every Three Weeks, Half-Price Through 2027: Gemini 3.7 Flash Puts the Price War on the Table
Just three weeks after its predecessor, Google rolls out Gemini 3.7 Flash with noticeably improved code and frontend generation—plus API pricing slashed in half through early 2027. For the developer community, it's not just about performance.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Goes Live Everywhere, While OpenAI's Speed Demon Stays on the Waitlist
Google and OpenAI both played the "speed" card on the same day—but one is already downloadable in 160+ countries, while the other remains locked behind an invite-only preview. Beyond the benchmark numbers, the real gap is who's actually putting it in developers' hands.
Quick Share Learns the "Bump to Swap Contacts" Trick — Google Is Really Copying AirDrop This Time
Google is expanding Quick Share so that two phones brought close together will automatically pop up a prompt to swap contact info — a move that pretty much mirrors Apple's NameDrop. The rollout starts with the Pixel 6.
That 2022 "Magic Text Editor" Experiment Just Turned 13 Authors Into a Blacklist, Four Years Later
Back in 2022, Google recruited 13 sci-fi and fantasy authors to test-drive a writing tool called Wordcraft, and nobody paid it much attention at the time. Four years later, the study resurfaced online—and now those authors are paying the price for signing on.
AI Floods Bug Bounty Inbox, Forces Apple to Cap Submissions
Apple has revamped its bug bounty program, capping submissions through its internal security portal and adding a 30-day cooldown period — all because AI is finding bugs so fast that human researchers' reports are getting buried in the flood.