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Google brings Gemini to Messages and adds AI text summaries for Android Auto

Google announced a slew of Android updates at MWC 2024, including the addition of Gemini to the Messages app and AI summaries for texts received while using Android Auto. There are also new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.

After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Amazon will pay out $1.9 million to settle claims that migrant workers suffered human rights abuses due to exploitative labor contracts in Saudi Arabia. The biggest news stories this morning: ‘Nanosphere’ paint could reduce a plane’s CO2 emissions, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review, Framework's new sub-$500 modular laptop has no RAM, storage or OS.

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