Google is rolling out a search services history setting that controls whether Google Lens images, voice search audio and AI mode interactions are saved to train AI.

Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging misappropriation of its trade secrets as the artificial intelligence company seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the AI giant. The complaint, filed in a California federal court on Friday, alleges a coordinated effort to steal Apple's confidential information, including product designs, manufacturing processes and supply chain strategies. The lawsuit names Chang Liu, a former senior system electrical engineer, and Tang Yew Tan, a former vice president of product design for the iPhone and Apple Watch, as defendants, along with the OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI Group PBC and io Products. Neither defendant immediately responded to a request for comment. Apple alleged that Liu failed to return a company-issued work laptop and later used an authentication bug to access Apple's internal network, downloading "dozens of Apple's confidential hardware-related files".

If Google's AI tools are used, it will automatically be noted in My Ad Center. Google is adding more tools for transparency around generative AI use in advertisements. The My Ad Center panel now has a section with'How this ad was made' information. It will be accessible on ads globally on Google's Search, YouTube and Discover properties. When Google's own extensive AI tools are used to create or edit an ad, the disclosure will be added automatically to the panel.

Google's latest Chrome update fixes 27 vulnerabilities, including two critical use-after-free flaws, none currently exploited in the wild.

Phone cluster computing turns old smartphones into low-carbon data center servers. Google says UC San Diego plans to launch a 2,000 Pixel phone data center in Fall 2026.

Google announces new'Video Remix' feature its for AI subscribers Google announces new'Video Remix' feature its for AI subscribers It allows you to reimagine videos stored in Google Photos using Gemini Omni. Google is rolling out a new feature that allows you to edit and even transform your saved videos in Google Photos using AI. Powered by Gemini Omni, a recently announced model that Google says lets you create anything from any input, Video Remix is designed to save you from sitting through hours of Premiere Pro tutorials by just doing your editing for you. The new feature lives in the Create tab in Google Photos, where you'll find a library of templates that can be used to reimagine your videos. The examples Google provides in its blog post are all fairly subtle, but might actually prove pretty useful.

During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among senior DeepMind executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization. Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees over the possibility of unionization stumbled this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling they had wasted their time, WIRED has learned. In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later denied that request, but agreed to participate in negotiations arbitrated by a third-party body. An initial meeting on Wednesday was attended by union officers, DeepMind employees involved in the unionization push, the third-party arbitrator, and DeepMind HR representatives.

The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content. Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index websites for search engines and act as AI agents and trainers at the same time. The company previously offered its customers the optional ability to prevent crawlers from scraping their sites for AI chatbots, but now Cloudflare's stance is becoming more defensive by default. Now that the majority of traffic on the Internet is non-human, we must go further and act faster so that a sustainable ecosystem can emerge, Matthew Prince, Cloudflare's CEO and co-founder shared in a statement. Cloudflare's new tools and partnerships give website owners increased visibility and commercial opportunities and benefit AI companies that have bots with clear and transparent intent.

Google discovered 358 flaws internally while external researchers contributed additional findings, earning $90,000 in security bounties for their efforts. Users should manually update Chrome through'Help About Google Chrome' to ensure protection against these vulnerabilities if automatic updates haven't occurred. Chrome just released version 150.0.7871.46/47

Adjust your options for things like account recovery, ad personalization, and which parts of your Google profile are shared publicly. When you're jumping between the many different apps Google offers-- Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, and all the rest--you may not be giving much thought to the Google account that underpins them all or to the myriad settings you can access that help to define your experience across all these apps. If you've never opened up your Google account page on the web or on your phone, there are a host of options to browse through there. They cover everything from data security and browsing history to the backup email Google needs in case you ever get locked out of your account. Here we're going to focus on seven of the lesser-known settings: the ones that don't necessarily get a lot of attention but which are still an important part of how your account and your Google apps operate.