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The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
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Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say
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Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported…
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap…
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
AI
Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more
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Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.
Apps
Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools
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Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.
Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage.
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.
The summaries are created based on Gemini’s analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.
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Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time.
AI
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
2 hours ago
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.
This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users.
AI
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
2 hours ago
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
Google’s Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems.
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.
A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.
Google has built a custom Gemini model for search to combine real-time information, Google’s ranking, long context and multimodal features.
