Hiker, 60, missing for days in California’s Desolation Wilderness

Authorities are searching for a 60-year-old man who went missing on Memorial Day while hiking in California’s Desolation Wilderness, southwest of Lake Tahoe. The hiker, Jason Coughran, was last ...

Troy bar The Ruck to open downtown Schenectady spot in June

The former Unbeetable restaurant-arcade space on Clinton Street in downtown Schenectady is being redeveloped as a second location of the Troy-based bar The Ruck. An opening in late June is projected.

Is Google a bigger threat to democracy than Trump? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Users are finding that the new Google is impossible to disregard. By which I mean, searchers find it impossible to ...
CNET

Google Search Is Becoming Something Fundamentally Different. Here's What That Looks Like

From a reimagined search box to AI agents that hunt for apartments on your behalf, Google Search is being rebuilt with AI at ...
LAist

Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box

Google is merging AI and traditional web search in a move Google says brings "the best of web and the best of AI together." ...
InfoQ

Google Open Sources Experimental Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
Engadget

Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3

When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company's proprietary large language models. Now, the company is bringing some of the same ...
Ars Technica

Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...
Forbes

Google Search Live Goes Global, Giving Users Real-Time Search With Voice And Video

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Preview Google search live on Google's official announcement blog, linked below. Google has ...
Wall Street Journal

AI Is Rewriting the Old Rules of Google Search and SEO

The rules of search are changing. And it’s forcing a lot of companies to ask themselves a fundamental question: How do we get noticed now? For two decades, companies have relied on search-engine ...
VentureBeat

Google PM open-sources Always On Memory Agent, ditching vector databases for LLM-driven persistent memory

Google senior AI product manager Shubham Saboo has turned one of the thorniest problems in agent design into an open-source engineering exercise: persistent memory. This week, he published an ...