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Google is rolling out Gemini for Workspace for corporate customers. Apart from a stand-alone chatting experience with Gemini, users are getting generative AI capabilities in Workspace.

Google Bard is now officially Gemini. The company has announced the rebranding alongside a dedicated mobile app, and Gemini Advanced powered by Google's new AI model called Ultra 1.0.

Google has announced some updates to its Bard AI chatbot, including support for the Gemini Pro large language model and an updated Imagen 2 model for more advanced image generation.

Google has officially announced Gemini, its new generative AI large language model that will be used in its Bard chatbot as well as in its Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone with its latest feature update.

Google has updated its Bard chatbot so it can now use its YouTube extension to check out specific videos. Then it can chat with users so they can get specific information about the video's content.

Google Bard is being opened up to teenagers in most countries. In most jurisdictions this means kids 13+ can use Bard but some countries will have higher minimum ages. It opens up this week.

Google has announced in a blog post published today that it will be taking legal action against scammers who wish to profit from the hype surrounding generative AI and its tool, Bard.

Google has updated its Bard chatbot AI with a couple of new improvements. One will lets users summarize more of their emails and the other adds support for uploaded images in shared conversations.

Google has announced Assistant with Bard where generative AI will finally arrive on Assistant. It's a natural step for Google to take and it should make Assistant much more useful.

Google's Bard chatbot has new extension support that allows users to pull information from Google apps and YouTube. The upgraded Bard can also check answers against Google searches.

The Poe AI platform from Quora has received a big update today that splits your conversations with bots into separate chats, similar to how ChatGPT and Bard do it. There's also a new landing page.

Amazon is trying to catch up to the generative AI trend by developing two custom chips that its AWS customers can use to train large language models to compete with NVIDIA and others.

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now available to access for countries in the European Union, along with Brazil. It has also just added a number of new features and improvements, including image search.

The Irish Data Protection Commission claims that Google was planning to launch Bard this week, but it has not revealed enough information on how its chatbot AI will follow Europe's GDPR rules,

Google announced that it is now letting customers preorder its latest AI assistant, branded as the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise. The capability comes with more changes and features.

Bard can now use what Google calls "implicit code execution" to offer more accurate answers for math and coding questions, and it has now added a feature to bring tables to Google Sheets.

Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response.

Google announces a new Search Labs portal for users to test new developing search features. It gives access to features that may be implemented in future and share feedback directly with the teams.

Google Search will be getting some generative AI features that will allow users to ask follow-up questions for text searches, and will also help with the company's shopping search features.

Google announced a ton of new and upcoming updates for its Bard chatbot and also revealed there is no longer a waitlist for trying it out. The chatbot also used the more advanced PaLM 2 LLM.

Google Bard now has a Dark theme that can be toggled in the lower left of the chatbot's interface. It's not clear if automatic theme switching is supported but switching to Dark mode takes one tap.

Google is developing a generative AI chatbot for Wendy's that will take drive thru orders from a single company-owned restaurant in June. It's likely it will expand to more locations in the future.

Google is also rumored to announce even more AI features at I/O on May 10, including an update to Bard that will allow it to solve more complex math and coding problems and more Workspace AI features.

Google I/O 2023 may only be held on one day this year, May 10, but it looks like it could be one of the biggest events in Google's developer conference's history, with multiple hardware reveals.

The latest update for the Bard chatbot AI will now allow Google Workspace admins to enable access to Bard for their users, allowing them to use it for business or enterprise tasks.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September.

The homescreen widget would be a more direct way for Pixel phones to access Google's Bard chatbot AI, rather than use a web browser. There's no word on when this new feature might launch.

Among other announcements, the Biden Administration revealed that companies with AI systems like Microsoft and Google have agreed to have them tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference.

Samsung sent out a memo to its employees barring them from using chatbots like Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT at work after some employees used them to upload secret company info.

Ex-Google engineer fired from Google's Responsible AI team reveals OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Google Bard had gone sentient. This has caused months of delays in the product launch over safety concerns.

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI.

The open source software is designed to assist chatbots with large language models by keeping them on track with their answers and avoiding false or even crazy responses to questions.

The new feature will allow Bard users to not only generate code, but it can also help with debugging code. However, Microsoft's Bing Chat has had the ability to generate code for some time.

The merging of Google's two separate AI groups will likely speed up the development of its generative AI projects, including its Bard chatbot, as it tries to catch up with Microsoft.

The report claims Google's ethical AI team has taken a back seat at the company while it pushes out products like the Bard chatbot, which may offer a lot of misinformation to users.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told 60 Minutes in a recent interview that he predicts that there will be global treaties in the future to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and to limit misuse.

The newly launched update page will give everyone a chance to see what the Google Bard team have put in place in terms of improvements to their recently launched AI chatbot service.