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For over six decades, the nonprofit has been active in the financial services sector.

Meta’s newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company…

Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens that make things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today, it launches a pair of new displays, including a 16-inch mode that…

Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s director of research.

Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars.

As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the…

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday.  The NS-25…

This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.

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…

Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.

In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.

As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer.

Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.

LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google’s Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.

The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app. 

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.

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.

Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.

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.

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. 

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.

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.