Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

Apple just walked down the AI aisle with Google and said "I do" as the company picked Gemini AI technology to power Siri.

Google executive Sameer Samat sees the past year as one of curiosity about AI. This year, he's focused on its utility.

This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.

Evidence of this wider rollout appears in Google’s latest Android “Canary” build (ZP11.251212.007), which, according to the report, adds new AirDrop-related system files for the Pixel 9 series (excluding the budget Pixel 9a model for now).

Google patched high-severity CVE-2026-0628 in Chrome 143 and added Push API rate limits to curb notification spam, with penalties up to 14 days.

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Google has a serious update problem. But if you’re affected, take some comfort from the fact that it’s even worse for hundreds of millions of Samsung users. Some of these problems have been months in the making, and there’s no sign of any fix yet.