The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” – a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific time period – to obtain evidence used to convict a Virginia man of a 2019 bank robbery, they conducted a “search” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. By a vote of 6-3, the justices sent Okello Chatrie’s case back to the lower court for it to consider whether, as the Fourth Amendment requires, the search was “reasonable.”
Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan emphasized that “[a]n individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone’s location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information—even though for only a limited time, and from a third-party tech company.”
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For purposes of whether the government conducted a search, Kagan said, it does not matter that law enforcement officials “access[ed] only a short amount of cell-phone location information.” […] Nor does it matter, Kagan continued, that Chatrie gave Google permission to collect and use the location data.
O Google aproveitou o evento Galaxy Unpacked de hoje para anunciar novos recursos que chegarão ao Switch to Android, sua ferramenta que ajuda usuários a migrar do iOS para o sistema operacional do robozinho verde.
De acordo com a gigante de Mountain View, a solução agora também permite transferir contas do Google, senhas, credenciais de redes Wi-Fi e até mesmo eSIMs salvos em iPhones para dispositivos Android.
Antes disso, o Switch to Android já suportava a transferência de fotos, vídeos, contatos, mensagens e dados de calendário. Em qualquer caso, vale notar, é necessário que o iPhone envolvido na transferência esteja rodando pelo menos o iOS 26.3.
Essas melhorias serão integradas ao Android 17 e já começaram a ser liberadas para dispositivos Pixel. Os smartphones das linhas Galaxy Z Flip8 e Z Fold8, anunciados pela Samsung no evento supracitado, também serão contemplados por essa nova versão da ferramenta em breve, o que também vale para aparelhos de outras marcas.
Com o Switch to Android, pessoas que estão migrando do iOS para o Android podem transferir seus dados sem fio e sem baixar nenhum aplicativo separado — solução que surgiu após pressão regulatória, principalmente por parte da União Europeia e sua Lei dos Mercados Digitais (Digital Markets Act, ou DMA).
O Googleapresentou hoje novas variantes para a geração 3.0 dos modelos de inteligência artificial generativa do Gemini. Mais especificamente, foram lançados o Gemini 3.6 Flash, o 3.5 Flash-Lite e o 3.5 Flash Cyber.
A maior novidade é justamente o 3.6 Flash, que agora é o principal modelo “rápido” da empresa. Ele foi projetado com base em feedbacks dos usuários do 3.5 Flash e visa oferecer um equilíbrio ideal entre eficiência e qualidade.
Today we’re expanding the Gemini family with three new models built to be faster, more token efficient, and reliable at scale.
Hoje, estamos expandindo a família Gemini com três novos modelos criados para serem mais rápidos, mais eficientes no uso de tokens e confiáveis em escala.
Conheça os novos modelos Gemini. ↓
Na prática, o 3.6 Flash gasta 17% menos tokens de saída para tarefas semelhantes, bem como precisa de menos etapas de raciocínio e menos chamadas de ferramentas para concluir fluxos de trabalho compostos por várias etapas.
Essa eficiência também vem acompanhada de um preço menor. Custando US$1,50 por milhão de tokens de entrada e US$7,50 por milhão de tokens de saída, o 3.6 Flash reduz o custo total por tarefa executada por agentes, tornando-os mais baratos para desenvolver e operar.
Ele também é mais preciso em programação, avança significativamente em ML 1Machine learning, ou aprendizado de máquina., apresenta maior capacidade de interação com computadores e um melhor desempenho em tarefas envolvendo conhecimento.
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Além disso, o novo modelo tem proteções reforçadas contra usos indevidos relacionados a materiais químicos, biológicos, radiológicos e nucleares (CBRN) e ataques cibernéticos.
3.5 Flash-Lite e 3.5 Flash Cyber
Continuando os investimentos na família de modelos 3.5, o Google apresentou hoje o 3.5 Flash-Lite como o “modelo mais rápido da família”, desenvolvido para tarefas de baixa latência e alto volume de processamento.
Altamente superior ao Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, seu antecessor direto, ele gera 350 tokens de saída por segundo e custa apenas US$0,30 por milhão de tokens de entrada e US$2,50 por milhão de tokens de saída.
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O 3.5 Flash Cyber, por sua vez, é o 3.5 Flash rodando no sistema de IA do Google voltado à segurança (o CodeMender) e ajustado para encontrar e corrigir falhas de cibersegurança com um baixo custo por token.
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Ele será disponibilizado inicialmente apenas para governos e parceiros confiáveis por meio de um programa piloto de acesso limitado para que eles encontrem e corrijam possíveis vulnerabilidades críticas.
Além disso, o Google também afirmou que sua equipe de desenvolvedores já está focada na construção do Gemini 4 — o pré-treinamento mais ambicioso para essa nova geração, inclusive, já começou.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, the AI for newbies who don’t know better alternatives exist, is stepping into consumer hardware with its first device: a movable, screen-free smart speaker designed as an always-on AI companion for the home. According to a Bloomberg News report, the product — still in development — aims to control smart-home devices, play media, answer questions, handle messages, and leverage ChatGPT’s capabilities.
This sounds innovative on paper, especially with the promise of a more “humanlike” AI presence. But let’s be clear: Amazon, Google, and Apple pioneered this category years ago. OpenAI isn’t breaking new ground here — it’s trying to catch up to a market these giants have dominated for nearly a decade.
Apple’s HomePod mini
The Smart Speaker Revolution Started Long Before ChatGPT
Amazon lit the fuse in 2014 with the original Echo and Alexa. What began as a cylindrical speaker that could play music, set timers, and answer basic questions quickly evolved into a full ecosystem. Echo devices now control lights, thermostats, door locks, and more — exactly the smart-home hub role OpenAI envisions. Amazon iterated relentlessly with cheaper Dots, portable versions, and premium models, shipping hundreds of millions of units and embedding Alexa into countless third-party devices.
Google followed in 2016 with Google Home (later Nest Audio and similar), emphasizing superior search integration and natural language understanding powered by its vast data resources. These speakers became central to many households for information, entertainment, and automation. Apple entered the fray in 2018 with the HomePod, focusing on premium audio quality and tight integration with its ecosystem, later adding the more affordable HomePod mini.
By the time OpenAI is targeting a potential 2027 launch for its device, smart speakers will have been mainstream for over a dozen years. The core features OpenAI highlights — voice interaction, media playback, smart-home control, and AI assistance — are table stakes that consumers already expect.
What’s New (or Not So New) with OpenAI’s Approach?
The Bloomberg News description by Mark Gurman positions OpenAI’s speaker as a “new type of home computer for the AI era,” movable and screen-free for ambient use.
Earlier reports suggest possible camera integration for environmental awareness, object recognition, and even facial recognition for purchases — features that echo (pun intended) what existing devices already offer or are evolving toward. Many current smart speakers and displays already include cameras, microphones that listen continuously (with privacy toggles), and advanced AI for proactive suggestions.
OpenAI’s edge is presumably its cutting-edge language models, potentially enabling more conversational, context-aware interactions than today’s assistants. Yet even here, competitors aren’t standing still: Google has integrated Gemini, Amazon continues enhancing Alexa with generative AI, and Apple is finally significantly deepening Siri with on-device intelligence in its ecosystem.
Privacy Concerns Loom Large, Especially Versus Apple
One area where OpenAI’s entry raises fresh questions is privacy. An always-listening, camera-equipped AI companion that processes conversations, surroundings, and potentially personal interactions could amass intimate data about users’ daily lives. OpenAI has faced broader scrutiny over how it handles training data and user inputs with its models, and a device that lives in the home would amplify those risks — including potential data sharing, advertising uses, or breaches.
In contrast, Apple has long positioned itself as a privacy leader in the smart speaker space. HomePod devices prioritize on-device processing where possible, use randomized identifiers instead of linking data to user accounts, and offer straightforward controls to delete Siri history. Apple’s ecosystem design generally minimizes cloud transmission and avoids using customer data for ad targeting in the same way its competitors do. OpenAI, as a newer hardware player heavily reliant on cloud-based AI, will need to earn similar trust — something that could prove challenging given the always-on nature of the proposed companion.
Challenges Ahead for the Newcomer
OpenAI enters a crowded, mature market where hardware margins are thin, privacy concerns run high, and user loyalty to existing ecosystems (Amazon for shopping, Google for search, Apple for seamless device handoff) is strong. Building reliable hardware at scale, managing always-listening microphones and potential cameras responsibly, and competing on price (rumored $200–$300 range) won’t be trivial.
History shows that smart speakers succeeded because they solved simple, everyday problems affordably and reliably — not because they promised revolutionary AI companionship. OpenAI’s version may feel more “alive” thanks to advanced models, but it risks being perceived as a me-too product unless it delivers truly standout experiences that justify switching or adding yet another device to the home.
MacDailyNews Take: In the smart speaker space, OpenAI following well-trodden footsteps laid by Amazon, Google, and Apple. The real test will be whether ChatGPT can make the familiar feel fresh enough to stand out — while addressing privacy headwinds that Apple has long navigated more cautiously.
Our prediction is that it won’t.
OpenAI has always been skeevy, from eschewing its open source roots to Sam Altman to desperately overpaying for a washed Jony Ive. Just plain skeevy.
If ever a Skynet would arise, we expect it would spring from the diseased loins of OpenAI. – MacDailyNews, July 13, 2026
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Após atingir três valores recordes só nesta semana, as ações da Apple [$AAPL] mantiveram a ascensão nesta sexta-feira e, graças a uma alta de 0,14%, elas valem agora US$333,74 — US$0,48 a mais do que o valor registrado ontem e um novo recorde histórico.
Já o pico do pregão foi de US$334,98, o que também representa um recorde em relação ao penúltimo valor máximo registrado (US$334,68).
Com relação ao ranking das empresas de capital aberto mais valiosas do mundo, a Apple segue na segunda posição, agora com um market cap de US$4,902 trilhões. Porém, algo interessante aconteceu hoje: ela ultrapassou brevemente a NVIDIA [$NVDA] durante o pregão, assumindo a posição de empresa mais valiosa do mundo por algum tempo; no fechamento da Nasdaq, porém, ela acabou voltando ao segundo lugar.
Isso foi facilitado após mais um dia de queda nas ações da fabricante de GPUs (o segundo seguido), desta vez de -2,21%, o que fez com que os papéis da empresa fechassem valendo US$202,81. Já o market cap está agora em US$4,912 trilhões — ou seja, apenas US$10 bilhões a mais do que o da Apple.
A Alphabet [$GOOG], empresa-mãe do Google, segue na terceira posição desse ranking, agora um market cap de US$4,224 trilhões. Assim como a NVIDIA, as ações da gigante de Mountain View também recuaram hoje, fechando o dia valendo US$346,12 (-2,17%).
A Apple e o Google foram intimados por um procurador de San Francisco a remover aplicativos que gerem imagens de nudez não consensuais.
As notificações extrajudiciais foram enviadas pelo procurador David Chiu, que exigiu a remoção de 13 aplicativos de troca de rostos (face swap) os quais permitem que usuários criem imagens de nudez sem o consentimento das pessoas envolvidas, com o auxílio da inteligência artificial (IA). Ele solicitou ainda o rompimento das relações comerciais com os desenvolvedores desses apps.
Chiu comentou o conflito com esse segmento de apps e a problemática da relação desses aplicativos com grandes empresas de tecnologia:
Gerar imagens íntimas não consensuais é ilegal, prejudicial e completamente inaceitável. […] Essas empresas têm a responsabilidade de garantir que os aplicativos em suas plataformas não facilitem abuso sexual. […] O fato de algumas das maiores e mais consolidadas empresas de tecnologia do mundo estarem facilitando isso precisa acabar.
Pesquisadores das universidades de Cornell e Georgetown descobriram que, de 155 apps de criação de deepfakes, 70% deles permitiam gerar conteúdos com nudez sem quaisquer restrições — demonstrando que mesmo os apps que não são promovidos como tal não impedem práticas criminosas. Uma investigação da Tech Transparency Project (TTP) revelou números parecidos.
A Apple possui um histórico delicado com o tema: embora esses estudos apontem leniência com a existência desse tipo de ferramenta na App Store, a Maçã possui um rastro de combate a esse tipo de prática — ainda que sob pressão governamental —, a exemplo da ameaça de remoção do X em meio à polêmica com a geração de imagens de nudez com o auxílio do Grok.
Representando o Google, Dan Jackson afirmou que centenas desses aplicativos foram excluídos da loja do Android:
O Google Play não permite aplicativos que contenham conteúdo sexual, e tomamos continuamente medidas proativas para detectar e remover apps com conteúdo prejudicial. […] Quando recebemos denúncias, investigamos e agimos rapidamente, o que, nesses casos, incluiu suspender centenas de aplicativos que violavam nossas políticas e restringir termos de busca relacionados, como “nudify”, em nossa loja.
A Apple, por sua vez, optou por não comentar o caso.
Embora costume dar mais foco aos seus próprios sistemas operacionais, a Apple também lança esporadicamente recursos para as versões de seus aplicativos em plataformas concorrentes, como o Android.
O aplicativo Apple TV, por exemplo, está ganhando widgets para a tela inicial do Android — o que permite que usuários acessem ou visualizem informações sem precisar abrir o aplicativo.
Além dessa novidade, o aplicativo também está ganhando suporte ao recurso “Continue Assistindo” (“Continue Watching”) no sistema operacional do Google, juntando-se a outras tantas plataformas de streaming populares do mercado.
A novidade, semelhante ao recurso disponível no aplicativo Apple TV nas plataformas da Maçã, permite continuar assistindo a produções a partir do hub unificado de serviços de streaming do sistema operacional.
Ainda na seara dos updates, o 9to5Google revelou que o Apple Music também está sendo atualizado no sistema concorrente, agora com suporte ao compartilhamento via WhatsApp.
The European Commission just told Google to stop giving its own artificial intelligence assistant special treatment on smartphones. Regulators declared that the company must give competing software the same system permissions currently used by Gemini. This order falls under the Digital Markets Act, forcing the tech giant to open up deep phone controls that were […]
The Pixel 10a shipped with a last gen processor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappointment since, typically, the Pixel a lineup kept the modern processor, but cut corners in other places to keep costs down.
The Tensor G6 is rumored to feature the same PowerVR DXT-48-1536 GPU as the G5, but it should still be an improvement over the Mali-G715 in the Tensor G4. The big upgrade is that the G6 moves on from Samsung's Exynos modems and instead uses a MediaTek M90 modem. Tha …
Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when you're talking about a 3D model. Is a smiley face a sphere? A mask? A flat disc?
In addition to offering a behind-the-scenes look at Google's design process, it also announced that it would be completely open-sourcing the emoji set:
We're handing over raw .OBJ files to the community so they can use them to build immersive VR worlds, …
A pesquisa de imagens no Google já começou há 25 anos, com a evolução do motor de busca de pesquisas simples em texto para uma exploração mais visual da informação. Agora o google Images ganhou novos truques.
As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the end of the year.
The launch of the microsatellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 7, 2026 marks a transition to “initial operational capability” for the FireSat constellation managed by the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance. After a three-month testing period, the three satellites will begin actively providing data to fire agencies while covering every fire-prone region on Earth at least twice per day.
FireSat represents the first satellite constellation purpose-built for detecting wildfires, including spotting smaller fires that other satellites may miss. The satellites were designed by California-based satellite manufacturer Muon Space and have received over $15 million from Google to support initial deployment. Other notable financial supporters include the Bezos Earth Fund that committed $26 million.
In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.
Google ha annunciato importanti novità per Google Vids, la piattaforma dedicata alla realizzazione di video inclusa nell’ecosistema Workspace, introducendo Gemini Omni e una nuova tipologia di avatar alimentati dall’AI. L’obiettivo è rendere la produzione di contenuti più semplice, divertente e maggiormente accessibile.
La funzionalità di maggior rilievo riguarda la possibilità di creare un alter ego digitale in grado di sostituire l’utente in qualsiasi video generato. Attraverso gli avatar personali, Google permette infatti di creare una versione digitale di sé stessi, che replica sia l’aspetto che la voce di una persona. Per ottenerla è sufficiente fornire un selfie e una breve registrazione vocale al sistema.
This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported.
Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change a person’s features, place them in sexualized positions, and swap victims’ faces onto other people’s naked bodies.
Chiu's letter warned that app stores were violating "California’s laws that prohibitsupporting servicesthat create deepfake pornography," Wired reported.
Intel and Google Cloud broadened their multi-year strategic collaboration with plans to deploy Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud infrastructure across the chipmaker’s global operations as part of a wider AI-driven transformation.
Under the expanded partnership, Intel will roll out Gemini-powered generative AI tools across engineering, supply chain and corporate functions, aiming to scale workforce capabilities through agentic workflows.
The hyperscaler’s infrastructure will also support Intel’s semiconductor development environment, with custom agentic workflows intended to speed up the chip design lifecycle and improve cross-functional execution.
Intel CIO Cindy Stoddard stated the collaboration gives employees a central hub to build and deploy agents through Gemini Enterprise, alongside elastic cloud infrastructure to scale silicon development, as part of the company’s push to move faster and more efficiently.
Karthik Narain, chief product and business officer at Google Cloud, described the partnership as an effort to pair Intel’s engineering expertise with agentic AI tools to create what he called an autonomous foundation for how the chipmaker designs, operates and scales its business.
The companies stated the deployment moves Intel beyond isolated AI pilot programmes. Through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Intel’s business units will be able to build and run tailored line-of-business agents aimed at automating core processes and speeding up data-driven decision-making.
Gemini’s reasoning capabilities will also power dedicated coding assistance and engineering automation tools designed to streamline software development pipelines and automate multi-step workflows.
Intel is separately piloting Google Cloud-powered tools for marketing and communications, including agents that can identify relevant subject matter experts, draft executive-ready messaging, and generate supporting content across communications channels.
On the infrastructure side, Intel is extending its on-premises compute capacity into Google Cloud’s C4 and N4 instances to support silicon development simulations and core engineering workloads, letting engineering teams run high-performance computing simulations concurrently to shorten chip development cycles.
The tie-up builds on a partnership which has deepened steadily this year. In April, Google committed to using multiple generations of Intel’s Xeon processors, including the 18A-manufactured Xeon 6, to support AI training and inference in its data centres, alongside a plan to co-develop custom infrastructure processing units.
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options
Google workers on Thursday delivered a petition calling for layoff protections as tech giants continue to slash their workforces while pouring billions into AI.
“Make no mistake: this is a company that is enjoying massive, unprecedented success,” Parul Koul, Google software engineer and Alphabet Workers Union president, said outside the company’s California headquarters after delivering the petition to the office of the CEO, Sundar Pichai’. Koul pointed to Google’s $4tn valuation, which has quadrupled over the last six years: “These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run.”
Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try to rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices since the law came into force in 2024. And the hits keep on coming for Big Tech in Europe. After several months of consideration, the European Commission has announced new DMA measures that will force Google to support interoperability and competition in the European Union, and Google is not happy about it.
The new "specification measures" cover two elements of Google's business: Android phones and search. Both changes could theoretically increase competition and give users more choices, but Google claims they will undermine privacy and security. But as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA, Google has no choice but to comply. As the European Commission points out in its announcement, these decisions are legally binding.
On Android, Google will have to open up access to competing AI platforms. Currently, Google's Gemini gets preferential access to the system. Gemini is preloaded on all Google-certified Android phones and can wake up in response to the "Hey Google" hot word. Google's AI also includes system and app automation features, screen content access, and more.
The European Commission (EC) ordered Google to ensure rival AI platforms can compete better with the company’s own services on Android and laid out data sharing requirements for its search engine.
The EC stated the measures fall under its Digital Markets Act and are the result of a six-month probe against the company to ensure compliance with the legislation.
In the field of AI, the EC noted competing AI assistants currently have only restricted access to key functions on the current Android OS. This means systems including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude “are not competing on an equal footing” with Google’s own services such as Gemini which have full access.
As a result, third party AI assistants are 60% less attractive to EU users who have an Android device, the EC stated.
The EC stated the measure means users would be able to activate their preferred AI assistant through voice commands.
Third-party users would also be able to employ AI assistants to perform actions in apps on their behalf.
The EC also included safeguards to ensure privacy, device integrity and security.
In total, it will open 11 features on Android to rival AI companies.
Google is also required to share data it collects from its search services with rivals including OpenAI, allowing “for the development and optimisation of third-party search engines”.
The EC stated the move would create a more level playing field with Google Search, although it will be allowed to assess whether rivals pose cybersecurity and data protection risks before opening data to them. The EC stated the measure provides “a fair formula to calculate the price of the shared data”.
Google is required to begin implementing the search measures by January 2027 and the changes to Android from July 2027.
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