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Gemini will auto-summarize your PDFs now and tell you what to do next

VINCENT FEURAY / Contributor / Getty Last year, Google introduced the ability for Gemini in Drive to interact with PDF files, summarizing a long document into digestible paragraphs. Gemini now has some new tricks related to PDFs stored in Drive, going beyond just a basic summary. Google introduced PDF summary cards for Gemini, Thursday. When you open a PDF stored in Drive, Gemini will proactively summarize the file's contents and suggest next actions like "Draft a sample proposal" or "List int

Apple @ Work: What’s new for IT teams with Apple’s fall software releases?

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Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research. This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally optimal solutions within seconds for problems that were out of reach a decade ago. The versatility of these solvers allowed successful applications in many areas, such as transportation, logistics, supply chain management, revenue management, finance, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Despite the impressive succes

Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each

Gemini in Google Drive gets right to the point with automatic PDF summaries

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini can now read PDFs in Google Drive and create a summary card for quick viewing. The feature comes with buttons users can click to make Gemini take action on the PDF, such as creating a draft proposal. The update is rolling out now to all Workspace users. Google Drive has been getting a lot of Gemini love recently. Google added the ability for Gemini to browse your files and even watch videos for you. Now, Google is rolling out a new feature that gi

Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them

Google is rolling out new Gemini AI features for Workspace users that make it easier to find information in PDFs and form responses. The Gemini-powered file summarization capabilities in Google Drive have now expanded to PDFs and Google Forms, allowing key details and insights to be condensed into a more convenient format that saves users from manually digging through the files. Gemini will proactively create summary cards when users open a PDF in their drive and present clickable actions based

Google is prepping a more compact look for Gemini Live, and here’s how it works (APK teardown)

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is prepping a new compact Gemini Live overlay that will let you start a conversation without opening the full-screen interface. The overlay will give you access to all four shortcuts available on the full-screen interface and even feature a similar background animation. We spotted the new Gemini Live overlay in the latest Google app beta release, and it could reach users with a subsequent update. After giving the Gemini overlay a much-needed de

Google may declutter Gemini’s compose box with a new Tools button (APK teardown)

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Gemini interface on Android may soon get a new tools button for Gemini’s Canvas, Deep Research, and Video tools. Currently, shortcuts for these tools appear within the text box next to the microphone and Gemini Live buttons. With an upcoming update, Google may replace these shortcuts with a single “Tools” button. Google is prepping a minor tweak for the Gemini interface on Android to give it a cleaner look. We’ve spotted the change in the latest Goog

Gemini's new free feature can save you hours of tedious PDF analysis

ZDNET Those of you who use Google Gemini for free can now take advantage of a feature formerly limited to paid subscribers. On Thursday, the Google Gemini account on X announced that the document upload capability is now available to all Gemini users. How it works Using this option, free users can upload a variety of file types to Gemini for analysis. These include PDFs, text files, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Google Docs files. After Gemini processes your uploaded file, you

Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Procrastinating about patching has killed more networks and damaged more companies than any zero-day exploit or advanced cyberattack. Complacency kills — and carries a high price. Down-rev (having old patches in place that are “down revision”) or no patching at all is how ransomware gets installed, data breaches occur and companies are