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Google's Gemini assistant may soon be making personal phone calls on your behalf. An APK teardown by Android Authority reveals a new Gemini Calling feature, with examples like telling mom you're running late or checking if a friend is coming to dinner. It's a small but telling expansion of AI into our most personal conversations.
Meanwhile, Stellantis is pushing hands-free driving further into the mainstream, introducing new Fiat and Maserati prototypes powered by Wayve's AI driver system. The technology promises door-to-door hands-free capability at what the industry calls Level two plus plus. The first production vehicle carrying it is expected to arrive in two thousand twenty eight.
And from Finland, a significant policy shift that could reshape how data centers get built across Europe. The Finnish government is drafting rules that would end first-come, first-served grid connections, putting large facilities above ten megawatts into a separate, lower-priority queue. Smaller projects under one megawatt would move to the front. It's a deliberate choice to protect communities from being crowded out by industrial-scale power demand.
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