In a recent all-hands, Google leaders told staff it was keeping its work policy flexible, but warned staff to be productive at home.

Google has assured employees that there are no immediate plans to require a five-day return to the office, addressing concerns stemming from Amazon's recent decision to mandate full-time office attendance.

Google has made it clear that the current system of three days in office worked well and the company had no plans to change.

Google's Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL are great phones, packing plenty to get excited about from the refreshed design to the plethora of fancy new AI skills. And while many of its AI tools are based around imagery -- including the wild generative AI Pixel Studio-- Google's Gemini Advanced is capable of providing deep (although sometimes inaccurate) answers to almost any questions you may have.

Render of the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL in hazel against a white background. Nearly 8 years removed from the series' introduction, the Pixel 9 Pro XL represents the most complete, refined smartphone Google's ever released.

However, my perceptions changed when a friend showed me his Google Pixel 2 XL. The photos were outstanding, and I couldn’t believe that Google could produce such fantastic and sharp portrait images from a single lens.

Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles the human ability to reason, similar to OpenAI’s o1, marking a new front in the rivalry between the tech giant and the fast-growing startup.

Google (GOOGL) reportedly wants to bring its artificial intelligence rivalry with OpenAI to the next level of AI models: those that can “reason.”

Google researchers are busy developing artificial intelligence models capable of mimicking human reasoning, according to a report by Bloomberg. Read more here.