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Google has added flight price tracking, hotel booking, and loyalty points display to AI Mode, its conversational search experience, positioning it as an end-to-end travel planning tool.
Nvidia is building hardware optimizations for Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen, even as it warns regulators that US restrictions on such models could hurt its business.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model supporting 85+ languages that cleans up filler words and self-corrections, ranking fifth on an independent accuracy leaderboard.
Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal system it would call AGI by year's end, built on its unreleased Astra model, though the claim rests on a contested definition.
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