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Malaysian national Ye Lin, 30, sent a colleague a Google Gemini-generated photo of a saltwater crocodile purportedly in Singapore's Pandan Reservoir. The image spread until it reached national water agency officials, prompting a days-long search that shut down the 435-acre reservoir and halted canoe and rowing club activities before authorities determined the photo was fake.
Google has rolled out Guided Vision, a feature in Gemini Live that uses AI to give real-time audio descriptions of whatever a user points their phone camera at, including reading small text and identifying objects. It's available through the Gemini app, Google TalkBack, or as an accessibility shortcut on devices running Android 9 and above, and supports follow-up questions about what's being viewed.
Micron Technology reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on both revenue and earnings, driven by an 11-fold jump in data center revenue. The chipmaker also issued stronger-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, though shares dipped slightly in premarket trading despite the beat.
A Samsung official told The Korea Herald that the company's first Intelligent Eyewear, built on Google's Android XR platform, will launch in November. The glasses lack a display and instead rely on cameras, microphones, speakers and Gemini AI, offloading heavier processing to a connected Galaxy phone. The devices have passed FCC filings under model numbers SM-O200J and SM-O200P, though pricing and an exact release date remain unannounced.
A CNET reviewer spent several months testing Amazon's Alexa Plus, Google's Gemini for Home and Apple's Siri AI for weather forecasting accuracy in a high-desert city with microclimates. The test found Alexa Plus gives the longest, most detailed responses—including wind, air quality and 'feels like' temperatures—but occasionally mispredicted rain and tended to overestimate high temperatures.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model built for deep reasoning in finance, coding, creative writing and cybersecurity tasks. Independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis found Argon matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on its Intelligence Index at roughly 60 percent of the cost, with a notably lower hallucination rate of 15 percent. Google says it is already using Argon internally for quantum computing research, codebase migrations, and data center memory optimization, where it freed up 300 TiB of memory.
Ye Lin allegedly used Google's Gemini to create a fake image of a saltwater crocodile in Pandan Reservoir and sent it to a colleague in August. The image prompted a crocodile sighting report to national water agency PUB, which suspended aquatic activities for two days while searching for the nonexistent animal before confirming the photo was fake and alerting police. Lin faces charges of transmitting false information and obstruction of justice after reportedly deleting the image and the Gemini app from his phone.
Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Buds On, its first open-ear, clip-on wireless earbuds, alongside the US launch of the Galaxy Tab S12 and SmartTag 3. The earbuds feature TwinBoost speakers, automatic volume adjustment, audio leakage reduction, and up to 9.5 hours of battery life, plus Galaxy AI tools like Gemini Live access and head-gesture controls. They go on sale in Korea on October 27 for 299,000 won, with a global release expected later.
Google has been expanding its AI tools into school classrooms, with students and educators reporting both benefits and drawbacks. Some students described AI assistance as slowing their own thinking, while reports point to falling test scores alongside concerns about cognitive and emotional dependence on the technology.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model it says excels at defensive cybersecurity work, including autonomously finding, validating and patching software vulnerabilities. The model is being made available initially only to select partners through Google's Fairwind security program, while Google staff are already using it internally for coding tasks like debugging and codebase migrations. Google says Argon also handles video and chart analysis and outperforms rival models from OpenAI and Anthropic on benchmarks cited from the startup Vals.
Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model it says tops or ties rivals GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmark categories. The model is initially limited to trusted cyber-defense partners and select pre-release testers, with wider rollout planned later. Google also says Argon supports up to 1 million output tokens, a sharp jump from the prior 64,000-token limit.
Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, describing it as its most capable AI model yet. Access currently is limited to a small group of testers focused on cybersecurity defense, with plans to later expand availability to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google released benchmark data showing strong performance across coding, legal reasoning, and business/economic tasks.