Apple is reportedly working to shrink Google's Gemini models enough to power parts of a long-delayed AI-enhanced Siri on iPhones. But despite Apple's best efforts to run the AI locally, "the iPhone's Gemini makeover will lean heavily on Google and Nvidia in the cloud," reports Ars Technica. That could complicate Apple's privacy-first AI messaging, especially if more complex Siri requests are routed through Google infrastructure and Nvidia's encrypted cloud-computing platform. Ars Technica reports: After inking the Google deal, Apple apparently got to work distilling Google's giant cloud-based Gemini models. Distillation is a process in which a small, less resource-intensive model learns to mimic a large, expensive one. With enough time, this can reliably transfer useful capabilities while pruning less important weights from the model. That may enable Siri to handle some tasks with private local compute, but a cloud component looks inevitable. Processing users' AI data in the cloud could be a problem for Apple. At WWDC, the company will probably promote its years of experience designing chips and how well that positions it for AI. However, The Information claims that Apple has struggled to even get Google's massive undistilled Gemini models running on its custom Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, which is built on on M-series Mac chips. When the smarter Siri rolls out, it will probably route more complex tasks to Google's cloud infrastructure instead of Apple's, but it won't be running on Google TPUs. Apple has reportedly signed a deal with Nvidia to use its Confidential Computing platform for this purpose. Confidential Computing keeps data encrypted on Nvidia GPUs while it's being processed in the cloud, which could help Apple claim it's still sensitive to user privacy concerns. It might even retain its own Private Cloud Compute branding for the system. The iPhone probably won't tell you which version of Gemini is handling individual Siri requests. Device makers designing hybrid systems that rely on local and cloud-based AI like to talk about making the experience feel "seamless." There might be clues, though.

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En voulant forcer Google et Cisco à bloquer des sites de streaming illégal, Canal+ a utilisé un argument technique redoutable devant la Cour d'appel de Paris. Problème : cette déclaration vient saborder ses propres négociations anti-piratage en cours.

Waymo va commencer à déployer ses nouveaux taxis autonomes aux États-Unis. En plus d'être plus pratiques pour les usagers que les Jaguar I-Pace utilisés actuellement, ces véhicules embarquent la dernière génération du système de conduite autonome de la firme.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money laundering, commodities fraud and wire fraud. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, was unsealed on Wednesday. Spagnuolo was arrested Wednesday morning in New York, ABC reported. "Spagnuolo had access to Google's internal data systems, including a particular Google internal software tool that provided him access to confidential, nonpublic Year in Search data," the prosecutors said in their complaint. Some observers of the Polymarket platform flagged the user "AlphaRaccoon" back in December for suspicious trades on the most searched person contracts. The complaint Wednesday said that Spagnuolo was the person behind that account. "Google officially and publicly announced its Year in Search 2025 results on or about December 4, 2025. Soon after it did so, Spagnuolo's AlphaRaccoon account, profited approximately $1.2 million on his Google Year in Search 2025-related bets," the complaint said. [...] Spagnuolo is also facing a civil case from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he's charged with insider trading. The complaint detailed that Spagnuolo correctly predicted the outcomes of a slew of other search markets, including contracts like "Will Zohran Mamdani rank in the Top 5 most searched" and "Will Squid Game be the #1 searched TV show." "Spagnuolo misappropriated the material Confidential Information by knowingly or recklessly using it to trade the 2025 Year in Search List Contracts in breach of his duties of trust and confidentiality," the CFTC complaint alleged.

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Michele Spagnuolo, ingénieur logiciel chez Google, a été accusé d'avoir utilisé des informations confidentielles pour parier sur Polymarket et remporter 1,2 million de dollars. Il a été inculpé par le ministère de la Justice américain.

Google Health, le remplaçant de Fitbit, est sous le feu des critiques. Les utilisateurs historiques du service reprochent à Google d'avoir dénaturé ce qui faisait le charme de l'application, tandis que les nouveaux utilisateurs ne comprennent pas tout au fonctionnement de l'application de suivi de la santé. Google a publié un billet de blog avec de très nombreux correctifs à venir.

Dans un article de blog publié le 26 mai 2026, des chercheurs de Microsoft ont mis au jour une campagne malveillante d'un genre nouveau : des pirates détournent les résultats de recherche, et désormais les réponses des chatbots IA, pour infecter les PC puissants et exploiter leurs cartes graphiques à des fins de minage de cryptomonnaies.

Pour 99 euros, Google propose un bracelet connecté capable de suivre votre santé 24/7 avec une autonomie au-delà d'une semaine. Un produit estampillé « Google Fitbit » pour la première fois, compatible avec un abonnement « Health Coach » pour qu'une IA commente vos données de santé. Mais un produit aussi abordable peut-il être vraiment efficace ? Après deux semaines d'essai, c'est le moment du verdict.

Depuis les annonces de la Google I/O 2026, les installations de DuckDuckGo s'envolent aux États-Unis. C'est ce qu'a annoncé le moteur de recherche alternatif sur X le 26 mai 2026. Le signal est faible en volume, mais révélateur d'un rejet croissant de l'IA imposée dans les outils du quotidien.

Google a baissé le prix de son forfait AI Ultra à la I/O 2026. Au même moment, l'entreprise a discrètement durci les quotas de Gemini Pro, au point qu'un seul prompt complexe peut désormais grignoter 13 % de l'allocation hebdomadaire. Un utilisateur en a fait l'expérience.

Les températures grimpent en France lors de ce week-end de la Pentecôte. L'actualité de la semaine a été marquée par les ambitions lunaires chinoises et le nouveau design de Google Gemini.

Plus tôt cette semaine, Google a déployé une refonte de son moteur de recherche, mettant en avant l'IA et devant simplifier l’accès à l’information. Cependant, certains mots très simples semblent ne plus fonctionner comme des requêtes classiques.

Aikido Security found that deleted Google API keys can continue authenticating for a median of about 16 minutes and as long as 23 minutes, despite Google Cloud's UI claiming that once a key is deleted it can no longer make API requests. Dark Reading reports: Joe Leon, researcher at Belgian startup Aikido Security, recently analyzed the revocation window -- the time between a key's deletion and its last successful authentication -- for the cloud giant's API keys. In a blog post published today, Leon said Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers expect API access to end immediately after the key is deleted, but this is not the case. In a series of tests, Leon found that the median revocation window was around 16 minutes, while the longest window was up to 23 minutes, "an incredibly long time" for API keys to continue authenticating successfully, he said. And these windows have serious repercussions for organizations. "An attacker holding your deleted key can keep sending requests until one reaches a server that has not caught up. If Gemini is enabled on the project, they can dump files you have uploaded and exfiltrate cached conversations," Leon said. "The GCP console will not show the key, and it will not tell you the key is still working. You are trusting Google's infrastructure to eventually catch up." [...] Leon tells Dark Reading the revocation windows for Google's API keys, as well as the unpredictable authentication success rates, complicate matters for incident response teams that are dealing with a potential breach. "This breaks the mental model IR teams have when responding to leaked credentials," he says. "It's assumed that when you click 'Delete' or 'Revoke' that the credential no longer works. Now IR teams need to remember that for GCP credentials, a window exists when that 'Deleted' credential still works for attackers." To that end, Aikido recommended that security teams and IR personnel use a 30-minute window for Google API key deletions. Additionally, organizations should monitor their API requests by credential through the "Enabled APIs and services" portion of the GCP console, and review API requests by credential. "If you see unexpected usage from that credential after deletion, someone could be actively exploiting it," Leon wrote. Aikido reported the findings to Google, but the company closed the report as "won't fix," according to the blog post.

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À la Google I/O 2026, Numerama a pu essayer le modèle Genie 3 de Google DeepMind, désormais capable de générer un monde virtuel jouable à partir d'une simple image Google Street View. Une démo bluffante qui ouvre une porte vertigineuse pour le secteur du jeu vidéo… et qui pose aussi de très nombreuses questions.

À la Google I/O 2026, Numerama a eu la possibilité d'essayer en avant-première les lunettes « Project Aura » de Google et Xreal, les premières à projeter Android XR au milieu de la vision. Grâce à leurs verres transparents et électrochromes, elles éliminent les défauts principaux des casques comme l'Apple Vision Pro, le Samsung Galaxy XR ou le Meta Quest 3… mais à un coût. Il faudra accepter quelques compromis sur le design et l'interaction.

Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick," adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a new crackdown on long-standing G Suite Legacy accounts, with similar complaints now piling up on Reddit from users accused of violating Google's non-commercial use policy, despite insisting they use the accounts only for family email and personal domains. Reports have been stacking up on Reddit's r/gsuitelegacymigration subreddit from users who say their long-running personal G Suite Legacy accounts are suddenly being classified as "commercial use" accounts and pushed toward paid Google Workspace plans by May 2026. A lot of users have been through this before. Google spent part of 2022 trying to wind down free G Suite Legacy accounts, then changed course after users running family domains made enough noise. Now some of those same users are being told they have fallen outside Google's rules after all. Emails seen by The Register warn users their accounts have been "identified as being used for commercial purposes" and say Google may start suspending Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, and other Workspace services if they do not either win an appeal or begin paying for Workspace subscriptions. "Please upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to continue using your services. Look out for a notification regarding the appeal process in Google Admin console or email," the email reads. "If you don't take action during your 45-day appeal period, Google will begin suspending your Google Workspace core services, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Meet. As a result, you will lose access to these core services and data." One wrongly-flagged user said the company reversed its decision after they filed a GDPR data request seeking evidence. Others were less fortunate, with some reporting that family-only custom domains were permanently classified as commercial despite failed appeals.

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Merdification de la recherche Google : Fini les listes de liens en résultats. Désormais Google va vous imposer un agent IA.

EDIT: Un autre article sur le sujet : https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/

EDIT: Et la manière dont Google va monétiser cette nouvelle interface est encore plus malaisante (encore plus opaque que les précédentes) : https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum
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À l'occasion de la Google I/O 2026, l'entreprise a annoncé plusieurs changements importants pour son IA Gemini, qui va notamment bénéficier d'un design interactif totalement repensé. De quoi rivaliser un peu plus avec ChatGPT et Claude.

Annoncé à l’occasion de la Google I/O 2026, Gemini Spark est un agent personnel capable d’agir à votre place, en continu, sans que vous ayez à laisser une machine allumée chez vous. Dans un marché encore émergent, Gemini Spark se positionne face à Claude Dispatch d’Anthropic ou Perplexity Computer, avec un avantage infrastructure que ses concurrents peineront à répliquer.

En pleine messe Google I/O, l’entreprise a finalement révélé son plan pour mettre fin aux doutes que l’on peut avoir sur certaines photos générées par l’IA en utilisant SynthID.