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Google has updated its Search services privacy settings to allow the company to store and use uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and video, to train its AI models, a change that was communicated to users via a low-profile email in June and applied by default. The update introduced two new settings, Search Services History […]

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In June 2026, Google introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification for how AI agents organise and exchange knowledge. An OKF bundle is just Markdown files, lightweight YAML metadata, and links between concepts, yet it challenges the assumption that every AI application needs embeddings and vector databases. Because the knowledge base is plain […] The post OKF: Redefining Knowledge Bases for AI Agents appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Google has released a Fourth of July advertisement imagining the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace and Gemini to draft the Declaration of Independence, blending historical fiction with a relatively understated pitch for the company’s AI tools. The commercial, taglined “Group project, but make it 1776,” depicts a fictionalised Thomas Jefferson collaborating with Benjamin Franklin and […]

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I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and then Nano Banana whips up a seal for the United States featuring a turkey ( … Read the full story at The Verge.

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?