4 highlights from Google Beam in 2025
Google Beam, our first true-to-life 3D video communication platform, made great progress in 2025.
Google Beam, our first true-to-life 3D video communication platform, made great progress in 2025.
After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to the always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record quick notes and reminders with a press of a button […]
India has given OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms 30 days to respond to its proposed royalty system for training on copyrighted content.
Jina AI has released Jina-VLM, a 2.4B parameter vision language model that targets multilingual visual question answering and document understanding on constrained hardware. The model couples a SigLIP2 vision encoder with a Qwen3 language backbone and uses an attention pooling connector to reduce visual tokens while preserving spatial structure. Among open 2B scale VLMs, it reaches state of the art results on multilingual benchmarks such as MMMB and Multilingual MMBench. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04032 Architecture, overlapping tiles with attention pooling connector […]
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.
BBVA is expanding its work with OpenAI through a multi-year AI transformation program, rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 employees. Together, the companies will develop AI solutions that enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and help build an AI-native banking experience.
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. Stop watching 20 minutes of “Hey guys, welcome back!” just to find one function. I have a confession. Image generated using AIThe article discusses the author’s development of a tool that efficiently extracts code from YouTube coding tutorials by utilizing the hidden transcripts that accompany the videos. The author details the motivation behind creating this tool, the technical stack used, and provides an overview of its efficacy, demonstrating significant time […]
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Google will compete with Meta with its own line of AI-powered smart glasses.
Scientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.