Google Vids Just Got a Major AI Upgrade — Here’s What’s New

Google Vids adds AI avatar controls, custom music, and YouTube publishing, positioning itself as a powerful new competitor in ...
Mashable

Google Maps receives major upgrade with 3D redesign, AI feature

AI features and a brand new way to view Google Maps are currently rolling out in the app for its biggest upgrade in a decade. Credit: Google Maps Google Maps just got a major upgrade. A really major ...
Engadget

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how third-party app stores and alternate billing systems will be handled by Android. Some ...
TechCrunch

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users (MAUs), according to the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings. This figure illustrates the rapid consumer adoption of Gemini ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Analytics To Become A Growth Engine For Business

SEJ STAFF Brooke Osmundson Director of Growth Marketing at Smith Micro Software On the first episode of the Google Ads Decoded podcast, host Ginny Marvin sat down with Eleanor Stribling, Group Product ...
Digital Trends

Google app leak gives us a glimpse of life with smart glasses and meaningful controls

Ahead of Google’s smart glasses launch, a Reddit user appears to have gained access to the unreleased Glasses companion app via an Android Studio preview build (also accessed by folks at Android ...
Ars Technica

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the ...
ExtremeTech

Google Retires Classic Android Weather 'App,' Rolls Out Redesigned Search-Based Experience

Google is shutting down its Weather shortcut for non-Pixel Android users. While Pixel smartphones will retain the Pixel Weather app, other Android users will be directed to a new Google Search ...
autoevolution

Google Is Building the Navigation App Everybody Will Use

The battle in the navigation software space has gotten fiercer in recent years, primarily because other companies, including navigation specialists like Sygic, TomTom, and HERE, have become more ...
Android

Android's Google App to Finally Get Dedicated Incognito Search Mode

Google is testing “History Off Search,” a new, prominent “incognito mode” toggle in its Android app that finally enables fast, one-tap private searching, mirroring a feature long available on iOS. The ...
CNBC

U.S. Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Alphabet's Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in ...