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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google plans to roll out AI Overviews in Search to all US users by next week, and to more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by the end of 2024 — AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions …
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LinkedIn: Ezra Eeman, Vidhya Srinivasan, Lulu P., and Elizabeth Reid
| Ty Pendlebury / CNET: |
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music tools that include the ability to create loops via text, without disclosing when it will be publicly available — Producers say the AI-generated loops can make music sound ‘more human.’ — Google has unveiled a new music-making tool … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a private preview of a new Gemini 1.5 Pro version that can take in up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic's Claude 3 — Gemini, Google's family of generative AI models, can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos and audio recordings than before.
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
Google announces Gemini 1.5 Flash, which is more lightweight and cheaper than Gemini Pro, but has the same multimodal capabilities and 1M-token context window — The new model will cut costs for developers using Google's models to build AI applications. — Google announced updates …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google announces Ask Photos with Gemini, a Google Photos feature that can answer questions like “show me the best photo from each national park I've visited” — Ask Photos with Gemini is a new generative AI chatbot for the app. — Deputy Editor, Reviews| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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Threads: @captain2phones. X: @googledeepmind, @google, @google, @googledeepmind, @nandodf, @douglas_eck, @itsandrewgao, @labsdotgoogle, @techledes, @googledeepmind, and @google. LinkedIn: Kira Rich. Forums: Hacker News
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @mike@flipboard.social, and @inthehands@hachyderm.io. X: @andrewgiambrone
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: Google Developers Blog, InfoWorld, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/singularity and r/Android
| CNBC: |
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI's chief scientist — OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he's leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/news, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google announces AI-powered scam call detection on Android, a chatty new voice mode with its Gemini Live feature, and voice and video search with Google Lens — Google I/O just ended — and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Google's Gemini AI models …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google teases Project Astra, a camera-based AI app to process visual data in real time, and showed a person wearing a pair of smart glasses using the feature — It'll even remember things it saw that are no longer in the frame. — Deputy Editor, Reviews
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org. X: @drbarnard, @nirave, @backlon, @google, @google, @google, and @google
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: TechCrunch, CoinXposure, The Verge, Wccftech, and 9to5Google
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google open sources code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming “mouse” controlled by head movement and facial gestures, to Android developers — Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming ‘mouse’ that you control by making faces …
More: Google Developers Blog, Android Headlines, and Mashable
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google rolls out a search filter, named “Web”, to show only text-based links in results — Google is rolling out a new search filter to show only text-based links in the search results. The filter is named “Web”. Clicking it removes images, videos, or other forms of search results …
More: TechSpot, CoinXposure, Neowin, TechCrunch, and The Verge
| Nelson Renteria / Reuters: |
El Salvador has mined 473.5 bitcoins worth ~$29M since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, bringing its total bitcoin portfolio to ~$354M — El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, official data showed on Tuesday … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it prevented $7B+ in “potentially fraudulent transactions” on the App Store from 2020 through 2023, including $1.8B+ in 2023, down from $2B+ in 2022 — Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning …
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, The Apple Post, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, MacRumors, Computerworld, iMore, and Silicon Republic
X: @keleftheriou, @drbarnard, and @adamkovac
| Washington Post: |
Eight TikTok creators sued the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing it violates their First Amendment rights — The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights.
More: PCWorld, CBS News, CNBC, Reuters, Social Media Today, TIME, The Information, BNN Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, and Invezz
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, replaced by Matt Garman, effective June 3; Selipsky joined AWS in 2005 and became CEO in 2021 — Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
More: About Amazon, The Register, CNBC, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, WebProNews, GeekWire, and TechCrunch
X: @aselipsky, @apollozac, @modestproposal1, @jakewk, @quinnypig, @kyliebytes, @izakaminska, @kyliebytes, @quinnypig, @caro_milanesi, @mylesudland, @anshelsag, and @kantrowitz. LinkedIn: Dave McCarthy
Forums: Hacker News, r/aws, and Slashdot
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, opening four such stores between December 2023 and February 2024 — Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, with some just a stone's throw away from Apple … Sponsor Posts
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