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🗺️ Gemini now lives inside Google Maps...

Oracle may cut 30,000 jobs to fund AI push

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Saidul Islam
January 30, 2026

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Today’s Recipes:

  • 🗺️ Gemini now lives inside Google Maps...

  • 🌐 Microsoft Copilot is the new Internet Explorer

  • 🎗️ AI cuts late breast cancer diagnoses by 12%

  • Musk considers combining SpaceX Tesla xAI

  • Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over AI use

  • Oracle may cut 30,000 jobs to fund AI push

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  • And More….

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Google Maps adds Gemini for walking and cycling, enabling hands-free navigation, local tips, and real-time assistance, expanding AI-powered guidance beyond driving.

🔎 Details

  1. New Feature: Gemini AI now works in Google Maps for pedestrians and cyclists.

  2. Hands-Free Use: Users can ask questions without typing, improving safety and convenience.

  3. Examples:

    • Walking: “What attractions are nearby?” or “Where’s a café with a bathroom?”

    • Cycling: “What’s my ETA?” or “Text Sarah I’m 10 minutes late.”

  4. Expansion: Builds on Gemini’s earlier rollout for drivers in late 2025.

  5. Availability: Rolling out worldwide on iOS and Android where Gemini is supported.

  6. Strategy: Part of Google’s broader push to embed Gemini across products like Chrome and Maps.

✅ Takeaway: Google is transforming Maps from static directions into a conversational, AI-powered travel companion, making everyday navigation smarter, safer, and more interactive.

Microsoft Copilot, bundled in Windows, struggles with adoption as users prefer ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, echoing Internet Explorer’s history of being forced yet avoided.

🔎 Details

  1. Bundled Everywhere: Copilot is pinned to the Windows taskbar and integrated into apps like Word, Excel, and Edge.

  2. User Pushback: Many users unpin Copilot and install alternatives, similar to how Internet Explorer was skipped for Firefox/Chrome.

  3. Market Share: Copilot holds only ~1.1% of AI website traffic vs. ChatGPT’s 64.5% and Gemini’s 21%.

  4. Mobile Struggles: On app charts, Copilot ranks behind ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude.

  5. Performance Gap: Competitors offer more flexibility and reliability; Copilot feels less capable despite Microsoft’s integration efforts.

  6. Internal Concerns: Even Microsoft leadership admits Copilot’s Gmail/Outlook integrations “don’t really work.”

  7. Forced Adoption: Copilot is pushed via taskbar icons, keyboard keys, and branding (“Copilot+ PCs”), frustrating users.

  8. Historical Parallel: Like Internet Explorer, bundling alone isn’t driving loyalty, users resent being forced.

✅ Takeaway: Copilot’s heavy bundling strategy is backfiring. Unless Microsoft improves usability and stops forcing adoption, Copilot may repeat Internet Explorer’s fate, ubiquitous but unwanted.

AI-assisted mammography cut late breast cancer diagnoses by 12% in a 100,000-woman Swedish trial, proving AI can significantly improve early detection and outcomes.

🔎 Details

  1. Study Scale: Involved 100,000 Swedish women in the world’s first randomized controlled trial of AI in breast cancer screening.

  2. AI Role: AI supported radiologists in analyzing mammograms, improving detection accuracy.

  3. Key Result: 12% fewer interval cancers (cases missed during screening but diagnosed later).

  4. Impact: Reduced aggressive and advanced cancers, improving survival chances.

  5. Publication: Findings published in The Lancet, adding strong clinical evidence.

  6. Global Significance: Could reshape breast cancer screening programs worldwide, especially in high-risk populations.

✅ Takeaway: AI is proving to be a game-changer in healthcare, not just hype, delivering measurable improvements in cancer detection and potentially saving thousands of lives.

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MORE AI & TECH UPDATES

Elon Musk has announced a merger between SpaceX and his artificial intelligence startup xAI, marking one of the most ambitious cross-industry integrations to date…

A growing clash between the Pentagon and AI startup Anthropic highlights the deepening debate over how artificial intelligence should be deployed in military contexts…

Oracle is facing mounting financial pressure as it pursues one of the largest AI datacenter build-outs in history, tied to a $300 billion, five-year contract with OpenAI…

DeepSeek, one of China’s leading AI startups, has reportedly been granted conditional approval by the Chinese government to acquire Nvidia’s H200 AI GPUs, according to sources familiar with the matter…

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