GOOGLE BRINGS AI EDGE TOOLS TO MACOS

AI Edge Gallery allows users to run open-source models directly on their laptops without cloud connectivity. AI Edge Eloquent provides on-device voice dictation powered by local processing. Gemma 4 12B is designed to deliver agentic, multimodal capabilities to desktop machines. The release follows Google's broader push toward on-device AI, competing with Apple's similar efforts to run intelligence locally. Meanwhile, Google and Nvidia are supporting Apple's new Apple Foundation Models, which power Apple Intelligence. Google also introduced DiffusionGemma, a 26B-parameter experimental model using text diffusion for faster generation—up to 4x speedier inference on GPUs compared to traditional autoregressive approaches. In regulatory news, a German court ruled Google is directly liable for false statements in AI Overviews, barring the company from making similar claims after the feature incorrectly linked two publishers to fraudulent activities.