UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.
Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
Google has cut ties with the company behind the botnet campaign.
Googling “Zelda” today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
"The flow of time is always cruel."
When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
There’s a Free Video Editor Inside Google Drive That Anyone Can Use
You may not have noticed everything Google’s free software suite offers—especially a web app called Google Vids.
Best Chromebooks and Googlebooks (2026): Laptops With a Google Touch
While Google is heralding a new series of laptops called Googlebooks, Chromebooks are sticking around—for now. These are the ones to consider.
Google Pixel Watch 5 Sale: Its Lowest Price Yet (2026)
Google’s latest smartwatch packs great new health and fitness features, and it's already on sale ahead of Black Friday.
Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms
It was an ambitious notion – now Californians will vote on a one-time 5% billionaire tax, and state’s super rich have pulled out all the stops in oppositionOne year ago, the idea of a billionaire tax in California was still in its infancy.It wasn’t yet…