WhatsApp launched Bill payments in India, letting people find, manage, and pay household bills inside the app. Powered by the Bharat Connect (BBPS) network, it covers 22,722 billers across 30 categories including electricity, gas, water, FASTag, insurance, and credit cards. The rollout is gradual for Android and iOS users over the coming weeks.about.fb.com ↗
Google officially launched Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, bringing Gemini Audio models into Workspace. People can conversationally search their inbox, draft documents by voice, and turn spoken brain dumps into organized notes. The features are rolling out this week for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in Gmail and Keep, and for Pro and Ultra in Docs, with Workspace business customers next.blog.google ↗
Spotify identified five songs that defined the summer of 2026 using streaming data, cultural impact and editorial assessment. Ariana Grande’s “hate that i made you love me” was the platform’s most-streamed song of the season, while tracks by Ella Langley, Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, Shakira and Burna Boy, and Yung Miami also made the list.newsroom.spotify.com ↗
The University of Cambridge and its partners published the first complete central-nervous-system connectome of a male fruit fly, covering both the brain and ventral nerve cord. Comparison with female connectomes identified 262 sex-specific and 114 sexually dimorphic cell types, together representing 4.8% of the central brain. The dataset is openly available for research into how neural circuits produce behaviour.zoo.cam.ac.uk ↗
Huawei introduced the Watch D3, its new smartwatch capable of 24-hour ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring. Using a mechanical airbag built into its strap, the device can measure blood pressure at rest and before or after exercise while generating detailed reports. It also features a 1.92-inch AMOLED display, ECG and sleep tracking, with up to six days of battery life.consumer.huawei.com ↗
Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini models. Instead of a fixed frame rate, the model dynamically scans the frames, audio, and transcript it needs, cutting token use by up to 88% and analysis cost by up to 66% on long video. It is live via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform on 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite.blog.google ↗
Google donated its Longfellow Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) library, open-sourced last year, to the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance under Linux Foundation Europe. Combined with digital IDs, ZKP can prove facts such as being over 18 without sharing other personal data. The move puts the library under vendor-neutral stewardship as a quantum-safe standard for digital identity.blog.google ↗
