Google’s GenAI-powered virtual assistant, Gemini, can work with various first-party, as well as third-party services and apps, such as Google Maps and Spotify, with the help of their extensions. Well, Google has now decided to stop calling them extensions. Instead, the brand is now calling them apps. That’s right. Not extensions, which they are, but…
Google has made a subtle but useful change to Gemini by rebranding “Gemini Extensions” to “Gemini Apps.” This shift, already showing up in the latest beta version of the Google app (version 16.8.31.sa.arm64), looks to be the beginning of a move towards a more integrated and user-friendly experience when using Gemini with existing apps. The…
Google is making another play to get iPhone users to turn to its AI instead of ChatGPT for their assistant needs. The latest update for the Google Gemini app on iPhone brings six new lock screen widgets and direct access through the Control Center. These new widgets are a welcome addition to the app, as…
Google removed its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini from the Google app for iOS devices, telling customers they can access the AI assistant by downloading the Gemini app from the App Store. The company delivered the news to customers in an email, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Feb. 19). Customers who try to access Gemini through the…
Google is pulling its AI assistant Gemini from the main Google app for iOS devices. The move is meant to encourage users to download the standalone Gemini app instead, which would allow Google to more directly compete with other consumer-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. However, the change could also risk reducing Gemini’s…
Google Gemini features will no longer be available in the iOS Google app. As AndroidCentral spotted, the company emailed Gemini users to highlight this change. “We’re making some changes to create an even better Gemini experience on iOS,” the email said. “Gemini is now available as its own app, and that’s now the best place…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s chatbot app has dethroned OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the top spot on the US iOS App Store, a development that could potentially change the AI landscape due to its open-sourced approach. DeepSeek’s namesake AI chatbot, which was released in the US App Store on January 10 and is free…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is no longer tied behind a paywall and can now be accessed by all users for free. Grok was first launched by Musk’s xAI in 2023 and was closely integrated with X (formerly Twitter), but users had to purchase an X premium subscription in order to get access to the…
iPhone users wondering what Apple Intelligence might become in a few months don’t have to look far or need to own the latest iPhones to see what the hubbub is about. On Thursday, Google launched the Gemini app on iOS, bringing the company’s chatbot and Gemini Live to your Apple phones for conversational AI. You…
When ChatGPT went viral a couple of years ago, some law enforcement agencies warned that AI would make it even easier for hackers to develop dangerous tools. We even saw concepts of undetectable malware created with the help of chatbots despite the protections that are typically built into these programs. More recently, we heard about…