Avant de circuler dans les grandes villes américaines, les voitures autonomes de Waymo ont déjà accumulé une expérience hors norme, non seulement sur route, mais aussi -- et surtout -- dans des mondes virtuels entièrement générés par l’intelligence artificielle.

[Deal du jour] Vous souhaitez remplacer votre smartphone par un modèle plus récent, capable de vous accompagner pendant de belles années ? Ne cherchez plus : Google applique une réduction de 20 % sur ses Pixel 10 Pro et Pixel 10 Pro XL, et ce pour une durée limitée.

À l'occasion de la publication de ses (excellents) résultats trimestriels, Google a revendiqué avoir franchi la barre des 750 millions d'utilisateurs sur Gemini, quand ChatGPT plafonne à 900 millions. Problème : Google compte en utilisateurs mensuels, quand OpenAI parle d'utilisateurs hebdomadaires.

Alphabet is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India [non-paywalled source], with the possibility of taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bangalore, India's tech hub. From a report: Google's parent company has leased one office tower and purchased options on two others in Alembic City, a development in the Whitefield tech corridor, totaling 2.4 million square feet, according to people familiar with the deal. The first tower is expected to open to employees in the coming months, while construction on the remaining two is set to conclude next year. Options in the real estate industry give would-be tenants the exclusive right to rent, or in some cases buy, a property at a predetermined price within a specific time frame. It's also possible Alphabet will not exercise the option to use the additional towers. If it does take all of the space, the complex could accommodate as many as 20,000 additional staff, which could more than double the company's footprint in India, said the people, asking not to be identified because the plans aren't public. Alphabet currently employs around 14,000 in the country, out of a global workforce of roughly 190,000. [...] US President Donald Trump's visa restrictions have made it harder to bring foreign talent to America, prompting some companies to recruit more staff overseas. India has become an increasingly important place for US companies to hire, particularly in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

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Plusieurs utilisateurs ont remarqué que YouTube avait commencé à bloquer la lecture en arrière-plan sur mobile via des navigateurs tiers. Un changement confirmé par Google, rapporte notamment The Verge le 3 février 2026.

Comme le font remarquer plusieurs personnes sur les réseaux sociaux, Google, en tant qu'investisseur dans SpaceX, devient actionnaire de xAI grâce à la fusion des deux entreprises. Le créateur de Gemini étend sa domination sur l'IA : il détient des parts dans deux de ses rivaux.

Changer d'IA comme on change de smartphone, sans perdre ses souvenirs ? C'est le nouveau pari de Google pour 2026. Une fonctionnalité repérée dans le code de Gemini suggère l'arrivée imminente d'un outil d'importation d'historique pour faciliter la transition depuis ChatGPT.

Google Genie 3 n'est pas là pour remplacer les studios de jeux vidéo. Mais la Bourse ne l'a pas très bien compris et de grands éditeurs en font les frais.

Google DeepMind vient de lancer le « Project Genie ». Ce prototype de recherche permet de créer, modifier et explorer des « mondes virtuels » de façon interactive à partir de simples instructions.

Waymo espère déployer sa flotte de robotaxis à Londres dès septembre 2026, grâce à une modification de la loi par le gouvernement anglais. Londres deviendrait la première ville en dehors des États-Unis avec les taxis de Google.

L'intelligence artificielle Gemini est désormais pleinement intégrée à Google Chrome, avec un volet latéral pour la solliciter à tout moment. Gemini peut naviguer sur le web à votre place, remplir des formulaires, modifier des images et accéder à vos documents. Des fonctions déjà disponibles pour les abonnés aux États-Unis et qui arriveront dans un second temps en Europe.

Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Et voilà, ce connard de Google marque la *totalité* des applications sur le magasin alternatif IzzyOnDroid (similaire à F-Droid) comme malveillantes.
C'est censé être du "Safe browsing" pour vous protéger, mais Google vous ment. Ils censurent ainsi la concurrence.
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Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Quelques jours après le lancement de l'abonnement ChatGPT Go à 8 euros par mois, Google réplique avec Google AI Plus, une formule équivalente qui donne accès à la meilleure version de Gemini et à 200 Go de stockage. Le géant du web continue de mettre la pression sur OpenAI.

La Commission européenne annonce lancer deux nouvelles procédures contre Google. Le but : obliger le géant américain à partager les clés d'Android et ses précieuses données de recherche avec ses rivaux, pour empêcher Gemini de tuer toute concurrence.

Google is adding Gemini-powered "Suggested times" to Google Calendar, automatically scanning attendees' calendars to surface the best meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The feature also streamlines rescheduling with one-click alternatives when invitees decline. Digital Trends reports: According to a recent post on the Workspace Updates blog, Gemini in Google Calendar can now help you quickly identify optimal meeting times when creating an event, as long as you have access to the attendees' calendars. The new "Suggested times" feature scans everyone's calendars and highlights the best time slots based on availability, working hours, and potential conflicts, eliminating the need to manually check schedules. Google has also made rescheduling simpler. The company explains that if multiple attendees decline your invite, you'll see a banner in the event showing a time when everyone is available, letting you update the invite with a single click. The feature is being rolled out starting today to eligible Workspace tiers. It will be enabled by default and is expected to reach all eligible users over the next few weeks.

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An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed [which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Google app's homepage]. Google appeared to be backing away from the experiment, but now tells The Verge that its AI headlines in Google Discover are a feature, one that "performs well for user satisfaction." I once again see lots of misleading claims every time I check my phone... For example, Google's AI claimed last week that "US reverses foreign drone ban," citing and linking to this PCMag story for the news. That's not just false — PCMag took pains to explain that it's false in the story that Google links to...! What does the author of that PCMag story think? "It makes me feel icky," Jim Fisher tells me over the phone. "I'd encourage people to click on stories and read them, and not trust what Google is spoon-feeding them." He says Google should be using the headline that humans wrote, and if Google needs a summary, it can use the ones that publications already submit to help search engines parse our work. Google claims it's not rewriting headlines. It characterizes these new offerings as "trending topics," even though each "trending topic" presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right... The AI is also no longer restricted to roughly four words per headline, so I no longer see nonsense headlines like "Microsoft developers using AI" or "AI tag debate heats." (Instead, I occasionally see tripe like "Fares: Need AAA & AA Games" or "Dispatch sold millions; few avoided romance.") But Google's AI has no clue what parts of these stories are new, relevant, significant, or true, and it can easily confuse one story for another. On December 26th, Google told me that "Steam Machine price & HDMI details emerge." They hadn't. On January 11th, Google proclaimed that "ASUS ROG Ally X arrives." (It arrived in 2024; the new Xbox Ally arrived months ago.) On January 20th, it wrote that "Glasses-free 3D tech wows," introducing readers to "New 3D tech called Immensity from Leia" — but linking to this TechRadar story about an entirely different company called Visual Semiconductor... Google declined our request for an interview to more fully explain the idea. The site Android Police spotted more inaccurate headlines in December: A story from 9to5Google, which was actually titled 'Don't buy a Qi2 25W wireless charger hoping for faster speeds — just get the 'slower' one instead' was retitled as 'Qi2 slows older Pixels.' Similarly, Ars Technica's 'Valve's Steam Machine looks like a console, but don't expect it to be priced like one' was changed to 'Steam Machine price revealed.' At the time, we believed that the inaccuracies were due to the feature being unstable and in early testing.... Now, Google has stopped calling Discover replacing human-written headlines as an "experiment." "Google buries a 'Generated with AI, which can make mistakes' message under the 'See more' button in the summary," reports 9to5Google, "making it look like this is the publisher's intended headline." While it is obvious that Google has refined this feature over the past couple of months, it doesn't take long to still find plenty of misleading headlines throughout Discover... Another article from NotebookCheck about an Anker power bank with a retractable cable was given a headline that's about another product entirely. A pair of headlines from Tom's Hardware and PCMag, meanwhile, show the two sides of using AI for this purpose. The Tom's Hardware headline, "Free GPU & Amazon Scams," isn't representative of the actual article, which is about someone who bought a GPU from Amazon, canceled their order, and the retailer shipped it anyway. There's nothing about "Amazon Scams" in the article.

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[Deal du jour] La Fnac et Darty bradent le Google Pixel 10 à un très bon prix dans un pack avec une paire d’écouteurs Buds 2a incluse. Voici plus en détail le deal smartphone et écouteurs de cette 3e démarque.