The US Justice Department has proposed forcing Google to unwind its $2 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as part of an antitrust case resolution. According to reporting by Josh Sisco and Leah Nylen for Bloomberg, the proposal aims to prevent Google from acquiring, investing in, or collaborating with companies that control consumer search …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis leads the company’s efforts to advance artificial intelligence while balancing research goals with commercial applications. In an extensive interview with Harry McCracken, Hassabis details how the April 2023 merger of DeepMind and Google Brain created a powerhouse AI research organization that now serves as Google’s “engine room.” The combined entity …
Google has launched a new memory feature for its Gemini chatbot that allows the AI to retain information about users’ preferences and characteristics across conversations. According to tech journalist Kyle Wiggers, the feature is currently available only to Google One AI Premium subscribers paying $20 monthly and works exclusively in English on the web client. …
Jakob Uszkoreit, one of the authors of the influential 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need,” reveals insights about the development of transformer technology in an interview with Ars Technica’s Benj Edwards. The paper, written by eight Google researchers, introduced the transformer architecture that now powers most modern AI systems including ChatGPT and various audio …
Google has released a standalone Gemini AI chatbot application for iPhone users worldwide. Tech journalist David Pierce reports that the free app offers text, voice, and camera-based interactions with the AI assistant. The app’s main feature is Gemini Live, an interactive conversational mode similar to ChatGPT’s voice capabilities, which appears in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island …
Google has announced the general availability of Google Vids, a new AI-powered video creation app for work, to select Google Workspace editions. According to the company’s announcement, Vids is designed to help teams in customer service, learning and development, project ops, and marketing create engaging videos more easily. The app utilizes generative AI capabilities to …
Two recent studies provide the first empirical evidence that having AI models debate each other can help a human or machine judge discern the truth, reports Nash Weerasekera for Quanta Magazine. The approach, first proposed in 2018, involves two expert language models presenting arguments on a given question to a less-informed judge, who then decides …
Google has launched Learn About, an AI-driven learning assistant that provides structured, topic-focused information to users. According to an article by Dataconomy, Learn About compiles responses in an organized format, encouraging users to explore topics further through interactive prompts, related questions, and multimedia content. The tool aims to create an engaging learning experience for users …
Google has introduced “Grounding with Google Search” for its Gemini AI platform, allowing developers to enhance their AI applications with current information from Google Search. As reported by VentureBeat’s Michael Nuñez, the service launched just hours before OpenAI’s consumer-focused ChatGPT Search. Google’s offering targets developers and costs $35 per 1,000 queries, while OpenAI’s service is …
Google subsidiary DeepMind has introduced SynthID-Text, a system for watermarking text generated by large language models (LLMs). By subtly altering word probabilities during text generation, SynthID-Text embeds a detectable statistical signature without degrading the quality, accuracy, or speed of the output, as described by Pushmeet Kohli and colleagues in the journal Nature. While not foolproof, …