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Google releases its new flagship model Gemini 2.0 and plans to test it in search and AI overviews, saying 2.0 makes “it possible to build agents that can think” — Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web — Google debuted a new version …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash to generate images, audio, and text, and use third-party apps and services, available via Gemini API and developer platforms — Google's next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI. — On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google unveils an updated Project Astra, which can record and summarize videos recorded using an Android app or prototype glasses and answer questions — Astra can then summarize what it sees and answer a wide range of questions, drawing on an array of Google services including Search, Maps, Lens and Gemini.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google unveils Deep Research, an AI tool to let its Gemini chatbot scour the web and write a detailed report, available in English for Gemini Advanced users — Google has just revealed a new AI tool called Deep Research that lets you call upon its Gemini bot to scour the web for you and write a detailed report based on its findings.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Jules, an AI coding assistant that can autonomously fix software bugs and prepare code changes, built on Google's new Gemini 2.0 platform — Google unveiled “Jules” on Wednesday, an artificial intelligence coding assistant that can autonomously fix software bugs …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Trillium, its sixth-gen AI chip powering Gemini 2.0, with 4x the training performance of its predecessor while using significantly less energy — Google has just unveiled Trillium, its sixth-generation artificial intelligence accelerator chip, claiming performance improvements … | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Apple rolls out iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, adding major AI updates, including Image Playground on iPhone 15 Pro, 16, and 16 Pro, Genmoji, and ChatGPT integration — ChatGPT integration is also included with this update. — Apple has begun rolling iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 to iPhones and iPads.
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Sources: Apple is working with Broadcom to develop its first AI server chip, codenamed Baltra and set for 2026 mass production, a milestone for its silicon team — Apple is developing its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, according to three people …
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars — Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
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Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts — The news came by Slack message. — Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with WP Engine's plugins — WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District …
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| Venkat / Windows Report: |
Mozilla is removing Do Not Track from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to add and now remove it, saying few websites honor the privacy preference — Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move? — Mozilla is removing the Do Not Track (DNT) setting from the Firefox browser.
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| Raphael Boyd / The Guardian: |
Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and December 3, while Bluesky's US DAUs rose 1,064% from 254,500 to ~2.7M — Musk's platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million
Bluesky: @phannam and @chrislepkowski
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI expands Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds support for Python, more text pasting, and launching in custom GPTs — OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features … | The Markup: |
The American Sunlight Project finds 35K+ mentions of nonconsensual intimate imagery depicting 25 female Congress members and one male member on deepfake sites — A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images …
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS dismisses Nvidia's appeal over facing a lawsuit alleging it mislead shareholders about its reliance on crypto mining revenue, leaving it to face the suit — - Investors can press suit stemming from crypto-mining revenue — Court dismisses its second securities-fraud case this term
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on Azure, after the FTC asked Google about Microsoft's practices — Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a London-based team focused on consumer health by poaching staff from a similar Google DeepMind unit he once led — Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology — Microsoft's artificial intelligence … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
An interview with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Donald Trump being the “president of this AI generation”, Elon Musk's public threats, ChatGPT user growth, and more — OpenAI's Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar played down on Tuesday public threats to the ChatGPT maker from Elon Musk … | Kurt Wilms / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube says viewers streamed 1B+ hours of content daily on TVs in 2024 globally, including 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly; sports content watchtime grew 30% — The living room was the place to be for entertainment this year: We watched J Balvin and Lana Del Rey rock Coachella … | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Embodied, which made Moxie, an $800 companion robot for kids aged 5 to 10, says it is shutting down after a failed funding round and Moxie will soon be bricked — Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted about Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022 — Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries
Bluesky: @tonytassell
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which has grown to 11 people overseen by Rhodes scholar Logan Graham to evaluate catastrophic risks in its AI models — It's largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone.
X: @jackclarksf
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out its auto-dubbing feature, which generates translated audio tracks, to hundreds of thousands of channels focused on knowledge and information — YouTube announced on Tuesday that its auto-dubbing feature, which allows creators to generate translated audio tracks for their videos … | Financial Times: |
As payment fraud grows, governments, banks, and tech companies disagree on who should cover losses; Deloitte says AI content added to $12B+ in US losses in 2023 — As payment fraud proliferates, governments, banks and tech companies disagree on who should cover consumer lossesSponsor Posts
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