eWEEK Staff

Google is bringing Gemini study notebooks into school-managed workflows, with Classroom assignments, teacher insights, and under-18 school account access coming soon.

Lloyds Banking Group’s hiring push shows how agentic AI is becoming a workforce and governance strategy for large UK banks, not just another model deployment.

Zoox’s updated robotaxi is built without steering wheels, pedals, or a driver’s seat. Its path to commercial service now depends on whether NHTSA grants an exemption from safety rules written for human-operated vehicles.

Adobe is expanding Firefly AI Assistant across five Creative Cloud apps, moving it from generative media into production tasks such as asset organization, file checks, layout updates, and workflow governance.

Google has lost high-profile AI researchers to OpenAI and Anthropic, raising new questions about Gemini’s talent pipeline. But Alphabet’s usage, infrastructure, and enterprise metrics show the race is more complicated than a talent-loss narrative alone.

Continuous glucose monitors are becoming AI-readable health data streams, but the strongest evidence still supports glucose forecasting — not broad diagnosis or consumer health profiling.

GO’s Japan IPO shows how robotaxi competition may hinge less on autonomous-driving systems and more on the operating layer: dispatch, fleets, payments, compliance, and local taxi partnerships.

Allbirds’ transition to Smartbird is now official after the company completed its footwear sale, named Nadia Carlsten CEO, and expanded its convertible financing facility to $100 million. The AI infrastructure plan now depends on securing GPUs, power, colocation capacity, customers, and the team needed to run the business.

Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap shows how advanced AI agents may need enterprise-grade safeguards, including monitoring, access controls, auditability, and real-time blocking for high-risk actions.

Disney and Adobe are bringing Firefly Foundry into Walt Disney Imagineering R&D for design and pre-production visualization, while Disney’s AI patent activity points to safety and operations use cases behind the scenes.

The base iPhone 17 supports Apple Intelligence, but Apple’s 12GB memory requirement blocks its most advanced Siri AI features.