Google announced a suite of AI‑driven enhancements for Gmail, including a new AI Inbox that surfaces suggested to‑dos and topic updates, AI Overviews that answer natural‑language search queries, and a Proofread tool that offers writing suggestions. The AI Inbox adds two sections—Suggested to‑dos and Topics to catch up on—while AI Overviews let users ask questions like “Who was the plumber that gave me a quote?” and receive concise answers from their email history. Proofread operates like a built‑in Grammarly, proposing word‑choice and clarity improvements. These features roll out to paid subscribers first, with many previously limited tools now available to all users. Leia mais →

Google Photos has introduced a suite of AI-powered features that let users edit objects and people in images through voice or text prompts, add AI-generated templates, and use a new Ask button for instant assistance. The updates also bring the app's natural‑language search to more than 100 countries and support dozens of new languages. The enhancements are available on iOS in the United States and are expanding to Android users, leveraging Google’s Nano Banana model to transform photos into styles such as Renaissance portraits or cartoon strips. Leia mais →

Sydney‑based startup Alloy is creating a data‑infrastructure platform tailored for robotics companies. The system encodes, labels and makes robot‑generated multimodal data searchable with natural language, while allowing users to set rule‑based alerts for anomalies. Founder and CEO Joe Harris, a former Atlassian and telehealth employee, launched Alloy in February 2025 after identifying data‑handling as a common pain point among robotics founders. Since then, Alloy has signed four Australian robotics firms as design partners, raised over AUD $4.5 million in a pre‑seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, and is preparing to expand into the U.S. market. Leia mais →