Amid growing concerns about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, Google says it has calculated the energy required for its Gemini AI service: Sending a single text prompt consumes as much energy as watching television for nine seconds.

The camera specs for the Pixel 10 series reveal only a small part of what's new for mobile photographers. I spoke with the head of the Pixel camera team to learn more.

For a while now, the tech industry has been shifting into the “agentic AI’ era. Simply put, it’s where an AI performs a multi-step task for you, like acting on a request such as “reserve a table for six at the nearest ramen shop with at least a 4-start rating on Wednesday.

AI is largely powered by data centers that field queries, store data and deploy information. As AI becomes ubiquitous, the power demand for data centers increases, leading to grid reliability problems for people living nearby.

The U.S. government struck a deal with Google to use its artificial intelligence and other applications for 47 cents, underbidding other AI partners.

Instead of heading straight to search engines or downloading content, buyers are now turning to AI for vendor comparisons, using Perplexity to summarize options or relying on Google’s AI Overviews for recommendations. Your next customer may have already “spoken” to an AI agent about your brand before they’ve ever spoken to you.

OpenAI continues to pay the Nvidia tax, but Google has launched its own competitive technology. Find out which company has the edge in the battle for AI dominance.

Alphabet’s Google introduced on Wednesday a new lineup of Pixel smartphones and gadgets, intensifying its efforts to embed artificial intelligence across a wide ecosystem of products.