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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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| 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.| 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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| 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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
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| Google on YouTube: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| 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.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price” — Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle …
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| 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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| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months for money laundering; Pertsev was first jailed in August 2022 — Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022. — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in jail for money laundering
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/ethtrader, r/defi, and r/ethtrader
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its enterprise tool Workplace in August 2025, making it read-only until May 2026; Workplace had 7M+ paid subscribers in May 2021 — Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network's parent company Meta …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches new tools for its Ask Me Anything Q&A feature, including a dedicated AMA tab, support for up to five guest hosts, and promotional options — Reddit announced on Tuesday the launch of five new tools for AMA (Ask Me Anything), its Q&A feature where celebrities, public figures … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China, including chips, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs will double from 2025 — Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt — The Biden administration …
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Forums: r/politics, r/electricvehicles, r/moderatepolitics, r/stupidpol, and r/neoliberal
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Square Enix's stock falls 16%, its biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its AAA games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short — - Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
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Forums: r/Games and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not share any plans to ship such a build — Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently. — • — TL;DR — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers — The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned.Sponsor Posts
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