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Google's watch calls an ambulance if you stop breathing.

Google's Pixel Watch can now call emergency services when it detects you have stopped breathing, the Gemini app passed a billion people a month, and the Department of Agriculture put AI drones over three banana farms in Davao.

01Top Story

Google's watch calls an ambulance

Pixel Watch 4 and 5 can now catch a dangerous drop in your blood oxygen, and if you do not answer within 30 seconds it calls emergency services and your emergency contacts by itself. Live now in 10 European countries.

why it matters
If you go down with nobody around, the thing on your wrist is what raises the alarm.
Read at Google
02Google

1 billion people now open Gemini

Google says more than 1 billion people now use its Gemini app every month, on phones and on the web, which is roughly one in eight people alive.

why it matters
The free assistant on your phone is now at the scale of the apps you already have.
Read at Google
03Jobs

Oracle cuts jobs again to pay for AI

Business Insider reports that Oracle is cutting jobs again this month, some teams by double digits, after its headcount already fell by 21,000 in a single year while the company borrowed $43 billion to build AI data centers.

why it matters
This is what the AI jobs story actually looks like: not a robot in your chair, a budget moved away from it.
Read at Quartz
04Privacy

Twitch is feeding your streams to Amazon

Twitch now lets Amazon train its AI on your streams, clips, chats and channel pictures, and every account is switched on by default until you open your security settings and turn it off yourself.

why it matters
One toggle at the bottom of the security page, and nobody is going to remind you it is there.
Read at 404 Media
05Philippines

Drones start hunting pests on Davao farms

The Department of Agriculture is testing a system from E-SupportLink that photographs crops from a drone and uses AI to predict disease before it spreads, already flying over three banana farms in Davao del Norte and Davao de Oro.

why it matters
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. says it only counts if small farmers can afford it, not just the big plantations.
Read at Inquirer

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