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Google says AI Search features sending billions of clicks to websites each week
Nick Fox, SVP at Google, said Google continues to send billions of clicks to the web every day and within AI Search it is billions weekly.
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An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […]
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AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now
The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses […]
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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs
Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […]
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DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI
AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […]
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Meet the philosopher inside Google DeepMind
What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […]
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Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats
Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […]
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Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals
Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been […]
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
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