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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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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
AI search's arrival bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded — With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
More: T3, CNBC, and Washington Post
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| 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: Fossbytes, TechCrunch, The Verge, CoinXposure, and Neowin
| 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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| 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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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Google debuts Veo, a text-to-video model that outputs at 1080p resolution, and Imagen 3, its highest quality image generation model with improved text rendering — It's also targeting recording artists with Music AI Sandbox. — It's all AI all the time at Google I/O!
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| Ty Pendlebury / CNET: |
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music tools that include the ability to create loops via text, without disclosing a public launch date — Producers say the AI-generated loops can make music sound ‘more human.’ — Google has unveiled a new music-making tool it calls Music AI Sandbox … | 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 Authority, Android Headlines, and Mashable
| Nelson Renteria / Reuters: |
El Salvador has mined 473.5 bitcoin, 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 …
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| Washington Post: |
Eight TikTok creators sue the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing the move violates their First Amendment rights — The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase — At it's annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company's next-gen … | 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 …
X: @byjoshye
| James Reddick / The Record: |
Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually — Online fraud operations in Southeast Asia continue to grow, with organized scamming syndicates netting an estimated $64 billion each year worldwide, according to new research.| Reuters: |
Sources and documents: Chinese chipmaker CXMT and others are in the early stages of making high bandwidth memory chips, a major step in China's chip plans — Two Chinese chipmakers are in the early stages of producing high bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors used in artificial intelligence chipsets …
More: Benzinga
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany, and plans to invest €7.8B in the region by 2040 — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European …
More: Data Center Knowledge, Reuters, and EU About Amazon
| Bloomberg: |
Yemen is holding back repairs on the key AAE-1 internet cable in the Red Sea during a criminal investigation into the cable owners' alleged Houthi militia ties — - About 20 telecoms in AAE-1 subsea cable consortium targeted — Cable repair permit has become leverage in years-long dispute
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