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Google's Gemini AI app currently has over 400 million active users per month, CEO Sundar Pichai said in a press conference ahead of Google I/O 2025. Google's AI Chatbot app is approaching a similar scale to Openai's ChatGPT app. According to a recent court filing, Google estimated in March that ChatGpt had around 600 million Mauss, while Gemini only had 350 million Mauss. The rise of ChatGpt poses a major threat to Google's search business, providing users with a new, more interactive way to access information on the web. The Gemini app is Google's most direct challenge to compete with…

At Google I/O 2025, the company announced new AI workspace features to be released in Gmail, Google Docs and Google Vids. Most notably, Gmail has got personalized smart replies and new inbox cleaning features. VIDS is getting a new way to create and edit content. Gmail's personalized smart replies help you draft emails that fit your context and tone. This feature displays past emails and Google Drive details, and provides a response suggestion with relevant information. Google says this feature removes the need to dig into your own inbox and files. Personalized smart replies can be adapted to tone, whether…

Google has launched a new subscription plan called Google AI Ultra, providing more AI products under one roof. The new plan, announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, will provide “highest level of access” to Google's AI-powered apps and services, Tech Giant says. AI Ultra comes with a price of $249.99 per month, and includes Google's VEO 3 video generator, the company's new flow video editing app, and a powerful AI feature called Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think Mode (not yet launched). “[Ultra is] “For those who want to be at the absolute cutting edge of Google's AI,” said Josh…

At Google I/O 2025, Tech Giant has announced a new feature that will be coming to NoteBookLM, an AI-based note-taking and research assistant. Most notably, the company has released a video overview. According to Google, users will soon be able to turn dense multimedia like Raw Notes, PDFs, and images into digestible visual presentations. Notebooklm has been around since its launch to help users understand and interact with complex documents. With this new feature, NoteBookLM takes a more visual approach to help users understand a variety of topics and ideas. NoteBookLM already has an audio approach to help users understand…

Google today announced new features for Wear OS 6 at Google I/O 2025, offering the operating system a design makeover using Material 3 Expressive, a design language announced by the company earlier this month. Google released a developer preview for Wear OS 6 based on Android 16 for testing on Tuesday. With Wear OS 6, app tiles adopt the default system font, as Google is trying to make your apps look more cohesive. Additionally, the Dynamic Themes Library adjusts the color of your app or tile to match the color scheme of your pixel clock face. The core promise of…

Android Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, has obtained an AI upgrade. Google announced it at Google I/O 2025, a developer meeting on Tuesday. In addition to deploying the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro models, Android Studio acquires a new “agent AI” feature called Journeys, and quickly introduces “agent mode” for more complex development tasks. With Gemini, Journeys allows developers to test their apps by explaining actions and assertions in natural language for the user's journey across the app. Gemini then runs the test. Image credit: Google This feature, Google said, makes it easier for developers to…

Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it will bring real-time voice translation to Google Meet. The feature leverages a large-scale language audio model from Google DeepMind to allow for naturally free conversations with someone in another language, Google says. Meeting voice translation translates spoken words into the listener's preferred language in real time. Voice, tone and expression are all preserved in the translation. The high-tech giant says the new features have a variety of use cases. For example, English-speaking grandchildren can be used to speak to Spanish-speaking grandparents. Alternatively, it can be used by businesses operating in different regions…

At the Google I/O 2025 Developer Conference, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered tool that helps you generate the required UI elements and code to design front-ends for web and mobile apps. Stitch will be asked to create an app UI using several words or images and will provide HTML and CSS markup for the design you generate. Users can select Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash AI models to select Stitch code and interface ideas. Stitch allows users to choose Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro model image credits: Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch Stitch arrives as so-called vibe coding…

Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of fresh-faced hackers and software engineers — has now collided with the U.S. federal government. The dozens of individuals who work under, or advise, Musk and the Trump-ordered Department of Government Efficiency — individuals who TechCrunch has identified or confirmed independently — reflects more than the billionaire’s proclivity to collect talent. They…

Apple has sent an invitation to the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), a developer-centric event that will be held at the catchphrase of “Horizon” from June 9th to June 13th. The company may announce new versions of its operating system: iOS 19, iPados 19, Watchos 12, Macos 16, and Visionos 3. Developer Conferences are both in-person and online, and Apple will be introducing online group sessions for the first time, according to the announcement page. The company will also announce a number of features related to Apple Intelligence. The report suggests that these include intelligent battery management and virtual health assistants.…