A Google exec’s jab at Apple about texting issues between iPhones and Android drew cheers and applause at the conference.

A Google exec's jab at Apple about texting issues between iPhones and Android drew cheers and applause at the conference.

Google executives took a thinly veiled jab at Apple at the company’s Google IO conference. The company hopes every mobile operating system will adopt a messaging standard called RCS, the exec said. Google promoted Apple’s adoption of RCS to make texting between iOS and Android a better experience. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing … Read more

Google is giving its powerful search engine an artificial intelligence makeover

Google is giving its powerful search engine an artificial intelligence makeover

Google on Wednesday revealed plans to infuse its powerful search engine with more advanced artificial intelligence technology, a response to major threats to its long-established position as the main gateway to the Internet. The gradual change in how Google’s search engine operates is emerging three months after Microsoft’s Bing search engine began tapping the technology … Read more

Google Rebrands AI Tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI – Its Answer to Microsoft’s Copilot

Google Rebrands AI Tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI - Its Answer to Microsoft's Copilot

In March, Google announced a set of AI features for its Workspace suite of apps in an effort to keep pace with Microsoft’s rapid integration of similar tools. At Google I/O, the company has new branding for this effort — Duet AI — but the features aren’t yet widely available to the general public. The … Read more