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 says Gemini Nano is now built into Chrome on desktop, with plans to use it to power features like the existing “help me write” tool (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google says Gemini Nano is now built into Chrome on desktop, with plans to use it to power features like the existing “help me write” tool — At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models …
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 announces that Gemini Advanced will update with deeper Android integration to answer questions about videos and PDFs being viewed on screen (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google announces that Gemini Advanced will update with deeper Android integration to answer questions about videos and PDFs being viewed on screen — Google’s Gemini on Android, its AI replacement for Google Assistant, will soon be taking advantage of its ability to deeply integrate …
Google expands its SynthID watermark imprinting system to AI-generated video and text; the tool can already attempt to detect AI-generated images and audio (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Google expands its SynthID watermark imprinting system to AI-generated video and text; the tool can already attempt to detect AI-generated images and audio — Among Google’s swath of new AI models and tools announced today, the company is also expanding its AI content watermarking …
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 …
Source: xAI has been talking to Oracle about a multi-year $10B deal to rent cloud servers, which would make xAI one of Oracle’s largest customers (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: xAI has been talking to Oracle about a multi-year $10B deal to rent cloud servers, which would make xAI one of Oracle’s largest customers — Elon Musk’s 1-year-old artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has been talking to Oracle executives about spending $10 billion to rent cloud servers …
