Google Offers Students a Free Year of AI Pro
Google is offering eligible college students a free year of its paid AI Pro plan for the new school year. The company is also introducing study tools across Google Search and Gemini.
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Pixel Watch 5 Adds Health and Offline Gemini
The Pixel Watch 5 refines Google’s smartwatch formula with smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini support. The review presents it as a meaningful but incremental upgrade at a premium price.
Pixel 11 Pro XL Makes Gemini More Practical
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL offers incremental hardware upgrades, but its deeper Gemini integration is the main improvement for productivity users. The new Rambler feature converts natural, imperfect speech into cleaner written text, while Tensor G6 improves responsiveness and on-device AI performance.
Beijing AI Bar Bleeds Cash on Free DeepSeek Tokens
An AI-themed bar in Beijing offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with a drink priced at about $1.50. The owner says the business is losing money while running local inference on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
ChatGPT for Teens Learns When to Say No
ChatGPT for Teens is designed to refuse completing students’ homework outright and instead support them when they are stuck. The feature reflects a tutoring-oriented approach aimed at teenagers who may not have help available at home.
AI Slang Enters Japan’s Job-Hunting Lexicon
Mynavi has published a list of terms that became popular among Japan’s 2027 graduating class during job hunting. The list includes ChatGPT-related expressions such as “Chappy,” “chapiru,” and “gyurareru.”
HiLight Studio Unlocks Pixel’s Notification LED
HiLight Studio is a third-party app designed to expand the limited notification capabilities of Google’s HiLight LED on the Pixel 11 Pro. It can reportedly let users customize LED behavior for notifications such as Slack messages, beyond the phone’s default Gemini and favorite-contact alerts.
Why China Is More AI-Optimistic Than the US
Bloomberg reporters will host a live Q&A examining why Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans. The session is scheduled for August 21, 2026, at 10 a.m. HKT.