Google announces Trillium, its new Google Cloud TPU that has 4.7 times better computing performance compared with the TPU v5e and is 67% more energy efficient (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Google announces Trillium, its new Google Cloud TPU that has 4.7 times better computing performance compared with the TPU v5e and is 67% more energy efficient  —  Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday unveiled a product called Trillium in its artificial intelligence data center chip family …

Google announces that Gemini Advanced subscribers will soon be able to make personalized Gemini chatbots, called Gems, with distinct personalities and abilities (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Google announces that Gemini Advanced subscribers will soon be able to make personalized Gemini chatbots, called Gems, with distinct personalities and abilities  —  Google says you can make Gemini your gym buddy, sous-chef, coding partner, creative writing guide, or anything you can dream up.

Google unveils Gemini Pro in Workspace Labs, shipping later this month, that lets users summarize emails by topic and more, like “compare my roof repair bids” (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google unveils Gemini Pro in Workspace Labs, shipping later this month, that lets users summarize emails by topic and more, like “compare my roof repair bids”  —  Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact.  —  Google’s Gemini AI often just feels …

Google unveils additions to Gemma, its family of open models, including Gemma 2, a 27B parameter model, debuting in June, and PaliGemma, a vision language model (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google unveils additions to Gemma, its family of open models, including Gemma 2, a 27B parameter model, debuting in June, and PaliGemma, a vision language model  —  On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference.

Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models  —  Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.

Google launches Firebase Genkit, an open-source framework that uses the Apache 2.0 license, in beta to let developers build, deploy, and monitor AI-powered apps (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google launches Firebase Genkit, an open-source framework that uses the Apache 2.0 license, in beta to let developers build, deploy, and monitor AI-powered apps  —  At the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced an addition to its Firebase platform that aims to make it easier …

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 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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 …