Amazon is making a major push into AI-powered retail with a new feature that allows customers to design custom merchandise simply by describing an idea. Integrated into Alexa for Shopping, the tool uses generative artificial intelligence to transform text prompts into unique designs that can be printed on products such as T-shirts, hoodies, tumblers, and water bottles. By combining AI-generated artwork with its existing print-on-demand infrastructure, Amazon is making persona

Google is expanding its Gemma 4 family with Gemma 4 12B, a new open model designed to bring powerful multimodal AI directly to laptops and everyday devices. The model sits between Google’s smaller edge-friendly E4B model and its larger 26B Mixture of Experts model, offering stronger reasoning and agentic abilities while keeping memory requirements low. Google says Gemma 4 models have now passed 150 million downloads, showing strong interest from developers building everything

Google has quietly entered the fast-growing AI dictation market with a new iPhone app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, and its biggest advantage is that it works offline. The free iOS app uses local speech recognition models from Google’s Gemma family, letting users speak into their phones and receive polished text without needing a constant internet connection. That makes the launch especially notable in a market crowded with startup products, because Google is bringing a maj

Voice AI startup Subtle has introduced a new pair of wireless earbuds designed to make voice a practical everyday interface, even in environments where speaking aloud has traditionally been unreliable or uncomfortable. Unveiled ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the earbuds, called Voicebuds, aim to solve two persistent problems with voice technology: background noise and lack of privacy in shared spaces. By combining proprietary noise isolation models wit