Huge congrats to @jparkerholder and @shlomifruchter and the Genie team + our amazing Labs and Creative Lab teams!! Access here: https://
labs.google/projectgenie Blog here:
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Google Launches Project Genie Creative AI Tool
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Waabi secures $1B as robotics startups challenge Waymo
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Top stories in robotics today: – Waabi lands $1B to take on Waymo, Tesla
– Tesla kills flagship EVs to bring in robots
– Figure's Helix 02 unified robot brain – Fauna’s ‘friendly’ humanoid is here
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
robotnews.therundown.ai/p/waabi-nabs-1
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Genie AI Tool Launching on Google Labs Platform
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It looks like Genie is getting ready to launch on Google Labs.
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Chrome Gets Agentic AI Upgrade and Weekly AI Innovation Roundup
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Top stories in AI today: – Chrome's big agentic AI upgrade
– DeepMind’s science behind AlphaGenome
– How to install and use Moltbot (Clawdbot)
– New labs raise big to rethink how AI learns
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/chrome-gets-
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Google to Release Genie 3 Soon
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BREAKING : Google is planning to release Genie 3 to the public soon! Genie 3 is a world model from Google DeepMind which lets users generate and explore AI-generated 3d experiences. It is likely to arrive as a labs experiment.
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China’s LimX Deploys 18 Autonomous Humanoid Robots
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China’s LimX deploys 18 humanoid robots without human control! https://
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Google tests voice cloning on AI Studio for Gemini 3 Flash
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BREAKING 🚨: Google is testing Voice Cloning on AI Studio, potentially ahead of the anticipated Gemini 3 Flash Native Audio upgrade.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 28 janvier 2026
Users will be able to record and upload their own voices to let Gemini clone them.
Soon? 👀 pic.twitter.com/AW9aIGSBhGBREAKING : Google is testing Voice Cloning on AI Studio, potentially ahead of the anticipated Gemini 3 Flash Native Audio upgrade. Users will be able to record and upload their own voices to let Gemini clone them. Soon?
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Anthropic accused of destructive book scanning and shadow library access
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Damning from @aaronjschaffer
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* Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of books
* co-founder Ben Mann downloaded the shadow library LibGen
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Voice dictation on Google apps needs UI/UX improvements
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Same questions But tbh, I never use native voice dictation on Google apps. It is not there yet on Gemini for example. And their models are good, I feel like it is just a UI/UX part which needs to get better.
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Human Ambition and AI-First Differentiation Driving Microsoft Customer Success
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How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping @Microsoft customers go further with AI https://
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/2
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… @AiqIntelligence @BlackRock @dentsu_global @Ecolab @HeyEpic @harvey_ai @InSilicoMeds @KraftHeinzCo @ManusAI @MercedesBenz @Nasdaq @RalphLauren