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Google has launched Vids, a new video creation tool designed to make creating business videos as easy as creating a slideshow. Powered by Gemini, Vids generates initial storyboards, scripts, and more.

Google shut down making people in the Gemini image generator feature after it began to show inappropriate artwork. Google now says two issues with its text prompt rules caused those problems.

Google has just announced yet another kind of language model for generative AI use, Gemma. However, this new model is designed to be used by researchers on their laptops or desktop PCs.

Google has announced it has started testing a generative AI feature for a few users of its Maps app, which will allow them to type in a text prompt to find things to do and places to go.

Google has introduced a new image-generation model called the ImageFX, powered by Imagen 2, which helps generate high-quality images using prompts. It also shared improvements to other AI tools.

Google's Art Selfie 2 uses generative AI to transform selfies into famous artworks. Users can choose from over 25 styles to see themselves depicted as explorers, knights, and more.

NotebookLM, initially introduced as Project Tailwind at Google I/O 2023, is now available to users in the US and is offering over a dozen new features aiming at "helping you do your best thinking."

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 parent Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat estimates, but cloud revenue growth disappointed, sending shares lower. YouTube revenue rose 12% to $7.95 billion, beating forecasts.

Google has announced today its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones. The devices are powered by the new Tensor G3 processor which brings new features like Super Wide Band, Call Screen, Best Take, and more.

In a brief blog post, Google has announced a new web admin control called Google-Extended. The control can be used to allow or opt-out websites from being used to train its Google Bard AI

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.

A new report says that Google's two AI teams are collaborating on new services, including one where AI could give you life advice and ideas, along with tutorial sessions, planning assistance and more

Google's Athena Team announced the release of the Visually Rich Document Understanding (VRDU) dataset. Systems trained on this dataset can automatically scan and extract rich data from documents.

Google is testing an AI tool that can generate news articles. Genesis AI will be subject to the same standards as any other news article. However, the spread of misinformation is a big concern.

NotebookLM, previously known as Project Tailwind, will automatically generate a summary of your notes in Google Docs, and you can also ask questions to the generative AI to get answers from the notes.

Google has now started pushing Help Me Write to Android and iOS devices. The AI-powered writing tool allows users to create email drafts in Gmail simply by giving prompts in natural language.

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.

A new report says Google is planning to use generative AI to automate ads, which may include creating media assets and even for suggesting new videos that YouTube creators could make.

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.

A new report claims Google is revamping its Search layout away from the traditional column of links in favor of showing more short videos similar to TikTok, and showing more forum discussions.

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.

Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered one of the major developers of modern AI, recently left his job at Google so he could speak more freely about the risks of letting AI get out of control.

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.

The 60 Minutes Overtime segment from CBS News showed a brief glimpse of the upcoming Google text-to-video AI program, but there's no word on when it might be released to the public.

A Google company wide email is asking employees to write answers for its upcoming Bard chatbot, using their own knowledge on topics they are familiar with to make sure it offers correct info.

A new Google Search blog post states that the company's search engine won't automatically ban AI-generated content from search results if that content is accurate and of high quality.

An image of Bard showed Google's AI chatbot claiming that the new James Webb Space Telescope had taken the first photo of an exoplanet, when in fact that happened way back in 2004.

Google shared new Translate features which include adding context for words with multiple meanings, and some new Maps additions, including finding EV charging stations nearby and much more.

The newly announced Bard AI chatbot is going to get a lot of internal testing from all of Google's employees, according to an all-hands internal email from the company's CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google is deprecating Duplex on the Web, a set of tools that gave Google Assistant the ability to buy movie tickets, check in to flights, change passwords, and track discounts on the user's behalf.

A Google ex-employee claimed that the company's LaMDA AI had become sentient. However, Google did not agree and now, another expert agrees saying that the stories were "pure clickbait".

Google says its AI can design microprocessor floorplans much faster and better than any human can. The neural network is learning this trade through a method called reinforcement learning.

Language Model for Dialogue Applications or "LaMDA" as Google calls it, is a new open-ended conversational AI model that can engage in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics.

XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite now support efficient inference of sparse networks. Researchers demonstrated substantial speedups in inference times on realtime gesture detection and background blur apps.

Using the same 54-qubit quantum computer used to show quantum supremacy, researchers ran the Hartree-Fock approximation—twice as large as previous experiments with ten times as many quantum gate ops.