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!
Google announces the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model, more lightweight than Gemini Pro, with a context window of 1M tokens and the multimodal capabilities of Pro (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)
Pranav Dixit / Engadget:
Google announces the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model, more lightweight than Gemini Pro, with a context window of 1M tokens and the multimodal capabilities of Pro — The new model will cut costs for developers using Google’s models to build AI applications. — Google announced updates …
Google announces Ask Photos with Gemini, which can answer user questions like “show me the best photo from each national park I’ve visited” from Google Photos (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Google announces Ask Photos with Gemini, which can answer user questions like “show me the best photo from each national park I’ve visited” from Google Photos — Ask Photos with Gemini is a new generative AI chatbot for the app. — Deputy Editor, Reviews
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year — AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions …
Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic’s Claude 3 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take 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.
A live stream of the Google I/O 2024 keynote (Google on YouTube)
Google on YouTube:
A live stream of the Google I/O 2024 keynote — It’s time to I/O! Tune in to learn the latest news, announcements, and AI updates from Google. To watch this keynote with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ 6rP2rEWs …
A live blog of Google I/O, where Android 15 updates, new generative AI features for its apps and search, and more are expected (The Verge)
The Verge:
A live blog of Google I/O, where Android 15 updates, new generative AI features for its apps and search, and more are expected — Welcome to Google I/O 2024. Google is kicking off its annual developers conference in Mountain View, California, today at 10AM PT / 1PM ET — and, as usual …
A look at OpenAI’s GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
A look at OpenAI’s GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems — A new model opens up new possibilities — Today, OpenAI released a new AI model, GPT-4o, with some interesting capabilities.
Sydney-based Data Zoo, maker of automated know your customer software, raised a AU$35M Series A led by Ellerston JAADE (Matt Ogg/Business News Australia)
Matt Ogg / Business News Australia:
Sydney-based Data Zoo, maker of automated know your customer software, raised a AU$35M Series A led by Ellerston JAADE — Data Zoo founder and chairman Tony Fitzgibbon (left) with the company’s new CEO Charlie Minutella (right). — A Sydney-headquartered company that provides automated know your customer …
Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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.