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An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is going to combine "ChromeOS and Android into a single platform" (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i

'I think you see the future first on Android': Google's Android leader on what iPhone users 'realize they’ve been missing'
On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more

Google's "AI Overviews" are garbage. Sadly they are now becoming the main way people interact with the web.
(Original title: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destro…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/googles-ai-coding-agent-jules-is-now…

Google's AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta | TechCrunch
Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks.

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

"What you have is, in essence, a very grassroots and cheap approach to launder misinformation to the public.”
From @… - Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

Or worse: "Let’s be clear: no one is enjoying 3% inflation. Not if you’re struggling to stretch your paycheck. Not if you’ve lost hours, lost a job, or been forced to pick up a third one just to survive [or are on a fixed income]. The only people “enjoying” this are the ones who can sip $1,200 bottles of tequila like Lutnick bragged about just a week ago."
**Trump’s Economic Gaslighting Is Leading Us Straight Into Recession**
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trumps-economic-gaslighting-is-leading

Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/india-leads-the…

India leads the way on Google's Nano Banana with a local creative twist | TechCrunch
Indian users turning Google’s Nano Banana into a viral trend engine, from retro AI portraits to figurine-style selfies.

Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M MAUs, with daily requests up 50% from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M MAUs in the US and India (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/googles-a…

Google's AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India | TechCrunch
Google shared new stats about its AI features' adoption during its Q2 earnings.

Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/goog

Google's Jules enters developers' toolchains as AI coding agent competition heats up | TechCrunch
Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.