New York Magazine

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

I ditched Google Maps for this free alternative that doesn't track me - or drain my battery

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...
CNET on MSN

OpenAI's Sora Is Now the No. 1 Free iPhone App. Get Ready for Lots More AI Slop

Sora is a brand-new app named after OpenAI's video generator. It has a similar setup to TikTok, with different feeds of ...

Google wants to 'break free app distribution,' says top open source library

Essentially the anti-Play Store, F-Droid is a volunteer-run catalog of free and open-source apps that are built from source, ...
9to5google

Google Gemini is the top free iPhone app

The Nano Banana image editing model has been a hit for Google, and presumably the reason that Gemini for iPhone is the top free app in the US App Store. As of Friday evening, Google Gemini is number 1 ...

Google Claims Android App Sideloading Won't Die, But Change

Google is addressing doubts regarding the upcoming developer verification for Android app sideloading. More details here.
BGR

Google Has A New Windows App That Lets You Search The Web, Google Drive, And More All At Once

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

I replaced the entire Google ecosystem with Microsoft apps for a month and here's what I learned

Apps like Outlook and OneNote delivered a more feature-rich experience than their Google counterparts, especially for anyone ...
Indiatimes

Nano Banana AI trend goes viral: Google shares 10 creative and free prompts in Gemini App; try now

Google DeepMind's Nano Banana model within the Gemini app is revolutionizing image editing. Users can now transform photos into stunning 3D figurines, video game characters, and fantasy maps with ...
Android Authority

Google's new app shows Microsoft how desktop search should work

Google has introduced a new experimental search app for Windows. You can press Alt + Space to bring up the new Google app for Windows to search your computer, Google ...
Indiatimes

Nano-Banana AI trend: Google Gemini overtakes ChatGPT in app rankings on iOS and Android

Google Gemini has surged past ChatGPT to claim the top spot on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, driven by the viral Nano-Banana AI image editing feature. This trend transforms photos ...
TechCrunch

Google rolls out new Windows desktop app with Spotlight-like search tool

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new experimental app for Windows that’s designed to help people find what they need faster. The app will allow people to use an Alt + Space shortcut ...