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Google is adding Deep Research and more file types to NotebookLM. Google is pairing up two of its research products: NotebookLM and Gemini’s agentic AI tool Deep Research. On Thursday, the company announced that all users will have access to Deep Research in NotebookLM within a week.
After spending over three weeks with the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, here are my thoughts on its design and performance—and where it could do better.
Google is rolling out new shopping features, including agentic AI that can call stores for you and automatically buy items when prices drop.
At Google I/O in May, the company announced its intention to bring conversational shopping to AI Mode. According to Google, its enormous “Shopping Graph” or retailer data means its AI is uniquely positioned to deliver useful suggestions.
Google said the fake messages are part of a massive criminal network called "Lighthouse" that has stolen information through phishing and smishing scams.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it plans to invest €5.5 billion ($6.4 billion) into computing resources and operations in Germany over the next four years, joining a wave of spending pledges from technology companies in recent months.
According to Google, the Private AI Compute service is just as secure as using local processing on your device. However, Google’s cloud has a lot more processing power than your laptop or phone, enabling the use of Google’s largest and most capable Gemini models.
Google’s total electricity demand more than doubled from 2020 to 2024, according to its latest Environmental Report. As for that goal of 24-7 carbon-free energy? The company is basically treading water. While it was at 67% for its data centers in 2020, last year it came in at 66%.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is partnering with Turkey’s largest mobile operator to build the first hyperscale data center in the country, giving the tech giant an opportunity to expand its footprint in a fast-growing market.
Apple is inking a deal with Google to make a custom Gemini AI model to power the next version of its virtual assistant Siri for spring 2026, according to a Nov. 2 report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. A subsequent report on Wednesday states Apple will pay $1 billion a year for this new 1.2 trillion parameter model.
As for the additional support for more file types, you can now upload Google Sheets, Drive files as URLs, PDFs from Google Drive, and Microsoft Word Documents. The tech giant says this change will allow users to do things like generate summaries from spreadsheets and quickly copy-paste multiple Drive files as URLs.