Android 17, AI’s Optical Backbone, and Long-Conversation Safety Gaps | UpNext AI – June 17, 2026
A quick catch-up on today’s AI news: Google rolls out Android 17 and Wear OS 7 with a Pixel Drop full of new Gemini features, Coherent expands a Texas optics facility that feeds the AI infrastructure boom, and a new paper argues that chatbot safety can degrade over the course of long, emotionally sensitive conversations.
Covered in this episode:
- Google releases Android 17 and Wear OS 7, alongside a Pixel Drop with new Gemini-powered features for Pixel devices
- Coherent breaks ground on an expanded Sherman, Texas facility to scale optical components used in AI systems
- New research on…
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