If you're an Android smartphone user, you're probably aware of the existence of the Google Search widget in the centre of your home screen. This search widget is included in the "Mobile Application Distribution Agreement" (also known as MADA) and its location and appearance is the same on all devices that come with the Google Play Store. But Google may soon make changes to the appearance and its functionality if a recent survey from Google is any clue.

Google is making changes to its payment policy for the US and announced it yesterday, on its blog.

This week's news concerning Google is not exactly going in Google's favour. This is due to criticism of their chatbot Gemini. As it turned out, it wasn't quite correctly generating images of people, such as historical figures, resulting in the resulting images being ethnically diverse. And Google has made a statement to that effect.

Google has announced an extension to Help Me Write, a generative artificial intelligence feature that is now available to users in the Google Chrome web browser. Previously limited to select apps and Google Workspace subscriptions, the feature is now available to everyone in Chrome M122.

As you know, the possibility of seamless updates was announced by Android a long time ago. This feature first appeared in Google's Pixel smartphones back in 2016. But Samsung has been trying hard all this time to avoid the new update system. Despite the South Korean manufacturer taking so long to accept the new rules without adopting the update method, it might be too difficult for Samsung to continue denying it in the near future.

Google announced the launch of Gemma, a new family of compact, open-access artificial intelligence language models. The first models introduced were Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B.

Google has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, which the tech company claims performs better than rival designs in a number of benchmark tests.

Google has published an updated privacy policy for its chatbot Gemini. According to the document, some user data, including deleted data, may be stored on the corporation's servers for three years.

Google has joined the Coalition for Content Validation and Authenticity (C2PA), a group of technology and media companies including Adobe, Intel and Microsoft that are developing a way to label content created or modified with artificial intelligence.

Google has announced a rebranding of its artificial intelligence technologies. All of them will now be united under the name Gemini.

According to Caroline Yap, top manager of Google Cloud, Singapore has great prospects to become one of the world's centres for artificial intelligence. In an interview with CNBC, she noted the favourable atmosphere for innovation in the city-state.

Google plans to rename its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard to Gemini and release a separate mobile app for Android. The changes will take effect as early as this week, according to documents leaked online.

Google's Bard chatbot has received a major update - the company has integrated its latest language model, Gemini Pro, and added Imagen 2-based image generation.

Google has announced Lumiere, a next-generation video content generator powered by neural networks.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated an investigation into major technology companies that have invested billions of dollars in promising artificial intelligence startups.