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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.
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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
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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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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its enterprise tool Workplace in August 2025, making it read-only until May 2026; Meta will continue to use the product internally — 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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| 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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X: @raph_bloch, @kooscouvee, @functi0nzer0, @noelleinmadrid, @chrisblec, @ohaiom, @scupytrooples, @aaronvanw, @hodlmagoo, @jp_koning, @blockblanc, @autismcapital, and @lefterisjp. LinkedIn: Jonathan Galea
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/ethtrader, r/defi, and r/ethtrader
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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