Windsurf's CEO and several key researchers at the AI coding assistant startup are headed to Google.

OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire the Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees from the company to join DeepMind, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.

At the same time, most of Google’s Gemini-powered tools are still free on Samsung devices. New Gemini-powered tools are also free for the next six months for early buyers of the Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7. For now, Samsung is keeping core Galaxy AI tools free and giving users more certainty about what they can use without extra cost.

If you do a lot of your work using Google apps like Google Docs and Sheets, Gemini could help increase your productivity.

One aspect of AI that is rapidly developing is video generation, and Google has developed its Veo 3 model to focus on that. The tech giant has just added a new trick to Gemini and Veo, and that's the power to generate videos, eight seconds long, from a still image. It's not a new concept, but this is arguably the best execution of it yet.

Gemini on Android can now view your WhatsApp texts. If you don't like the sound of that, see here what you can do to protect your privacy.

Google made Veo 3 available for free to Pixel 9 Pro, added Gemini support to Pixel Watches, and brought gaming support to Circle to Search.

AI is becoming a go-to tool for PPC. But a test shows a 20% error rate across platforms. Advertisers need to vet their advice carefully.

As AI agents move from sidebars to the heart of the web experience, brands will need to rethink trust, data, and discoverability in a new era of marketing.