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Google launched AI Core, an Android system app that lets users download and run AI models locally, advancing a strategy to reduce reliance on cloud inference and bolster privacy through on-device compute. YouTube added Google Lens into Shorts, enabling real-time visual search during playback to recapture discovery and intent flows. Google Photos updated its editor with AI-generated suggestions, further embedding generative tools into daily-use consumer apps. Overall, reviews have been positive, but mixed. Separately, Google began live-testing Veo 3’s audio generation capabilities, hinting at an end-to-end synthetic content pipeline across video, sound, and language.
Google expanded access to Veo 3, its new video model capable of generating high-fidelity clips with sound effects, through its Gemini app. People are being surprised by how far AI video has come, but the process remains tedious. In a public interview, Sundar Pichai doubled down on AI-first search, affirming the company’s shift from link distribution toward direct answers and multimodal output. Legal matters ended the week with Google finding out that a ruling in the antitrust trial is likely in August, much sooner than a lot of people expected.
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