Sam Altman throws shade at Google's 'aesthetic'

aol.com None OpenAI and Google each held major events this week announcing AI updates, one day apart. • None Sam Altman said he "cannot stop thinking" about the aesthetic difference…

You can now play Minecraft in Google

polygon.com Minecraft is turning 15 years old. Somehow, it feels like it’s been around for much, much longer, which speaks to the ubiquity of the game. Despite its age, Minecraft is…

Google launches a Gemini add-on for educational institutes via Workspace, available in Gemini Education and Education Premium tiers in English for users over 18

techcrunch.com Google introduced a ton of new Gemini-related products at its Google I/O developer conference recently, and its Education suite is also getting an AI boost. The company is…

Hugging Face, which is “profitable, or close to profitable”, commits $10M in free shared GPUs to help small developers, academics, and others create AI apps

theverge.com Hugging Face, one of the biggest names in machine learning, is committing $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies. The goal is to help…

Meet the Only 3 "Magnificent Seven" Stocks Outperforming the Nasdaq Composite Over the Last 3 Months

finance.yahoo.com The "Magnificent Seven" companies caught the market by storm in 2023 for their market-crushing gains. But the group has showed signs of cooling off. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA),…

How Will Generative AI in Search Change SEO?

socialmediatoday.com So when Google Search results go full AI, what then? What does the arrival of AI generated topic summaries in Search, or “AI Overviews” as Google calls them, mean for SEO,…

Google's AI updates could spark chaos for web creators

aol.com None Google's new AI products may be making some start-ups nervous. • None An AI-enhanced Google Search and email assistant could threaten smaller AI companies. • None Web…

Google's AI Gemini, formerly Bard: How the generative AI chatbot works, how to access and use it

businessinsider.com Google is training Gemini, its generative AI chatbot, on Google Docs and public data. NurPhoto/Getty Images Google has been working on AI for more than two decades. Now,…

3 Reasons Super Micro Computer Surged 16% Today

247wallst.com Super Micro Computer (Nasdaq: SMCI) surged 15.81% on Wednesday. That’s a massive one-day jump, especially considering there was no company-specific news like earnings.…

Google's Android chief says AI will change what smartphones can do and reset the battle with Apple for mobile supremacy

aol.com None Google's Sameer Samat says AI offers a unique opportunity for the Android ecosystem. • None Gemini AI on Android operates at the system UI level, providing…

Alphabet closes at all-time high as Google rebounds from disastrous start to AI race

cnbc.com Maybe Alphabet isn't so far behind in the AI arms race after all. This week's show-and-tell at Google's annual I/O developers conference went a long way toward restoring…

The top AI announcements from Google I/O

techcrunch.com Google’s going all-in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120…

Google unveils 'AI overviews' atop search results

theweek.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday that starting this week, people using its iconic search engine in the U.S. will start getting AI-generated answers at the top of the…

An AI agent may soon be at your beck and call, but it might cost you a bit of your privacy

aol.com None This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. • None You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Halfway to the weekend! What do you…

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can

theregister.com In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" – or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search. On Tuesday at Google I/O, the search ad firm's annual developer conference,…

The top AI-powered features revealed at Google I/O 2024

siliconrepublic.com Gemini continues to evolve and expand across Google’s ecosystem, more AI features are coming to Search and users will soon be able to create their own customised AI models.…

Google's shiny new AI gave the wrong information in a promo video

aol.com None Gemini suggested opening a film camera without a dark room, which would ruin the photos. • None Google's demo videos have made such mistakes in the past too. In two…

YouTube blocks Hong Kong protest anthem after court injunction bans song in the city

apnews.com YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong, days after court approved an injunction banning the song in the city. “Glory to Hong Kong” was an anthem…

Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out

techcrunch.com 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…

Google I/O wrap-up: Gemini AI updates, new search features and more

cnbc.com Google on Tuesday hosted its annual I/O developer conference, and rolled out a range of artificial intelligence products, from new search and chat features to AI hardware…

Google Takes on OpenAI With New Project Astra AI Assistant

entrepreneur.com AI overviews are coming to search for everyone in the U.S. this week. Google is in its Gemini era, according to CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai took the stage at Google's Tuesday…

Google search will never be the same

aol.com None Google unveiled a revamped vision of its hallmark search product at I/O on Tuesday. • None "Google will do the Googling for you," its head of search said of the…

Google I/O Focuses On AI Reasoning, Vision, Audio

mediapost.com Google announced of AI-related news and features Tuesday for developers at its I/O conference, but none will have more impact for advertisers and marketers then the ability…

LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education

techcrunch.com Google says it’s developed a new family of generative AI models “fine-tuned” for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI research division and Google…

Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year

searchengineland.com AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions of searchers by next week, Liz Reid, the…

Google puts AI in search as tech giants jockey for supremacy

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Neuron, One Useful Thing, and The Verge The News On Monday, OpenAI led the pack with a new souped-up version of ChatGPT that…

Circle to Search is now a better homework helper

techcrunch.com It’s a teacher’s worst nightmare: The AI is doing the kids’ homework. At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced that its AI-powered…

Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI

techcrunch.com Google has already admitted that video platforms like TikTok and Instagram are eating into its core Search product, especially among younger Gen Z users. Now, it aims to…

Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages

techcrunch.com At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to use generative AI to organize the entire search results page for some search…

Google reveals plans for upgrading AI in the real world through Gemini Live at Google I/O 2024

techcrunch.com Google is improving its AI-powered chatbot Gemini so that it can better understand the world around it — and the people conversing with it. At the Google I/O 2024 developer…

OpenAI may have finally cracked the code on voice interactions with AI

businessinsider.com Cha Pornea for BI This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Hello! Miss Teen USA is…

Best Free AI Image Generators 2024

tech.co The right AI image generator will be able to create the picture you need in the moment, whether it be photorealistic or full-on abstract art. Oh yeah, and ideally, it won’t…

Google Requests Default Judgment Against DMCA Scammers * TorrentFreak

torrentfreak.com Google's lawsuit against two men who it accuses of 'weaponizing' DMCA takedown notices is entering its final stage. The defendants allegedly targeted tens of thousands of…

Why book writing sucks (statistics), Google Search revenue increases 14% YoY to $46 billion, Pinterest shares soar 18% on earnings beat, strong revenue…

omny.fm In episode #2737, we discuss our podcast format changes and the impact on our audience numbers. We also talk about the challenges and economics of book publishing, the…

X Loses Lawsuit Against Data Scrapers

socialmediatoday.com The rules governing the use of online data remain murky, with a court dismissing a case brought by X (formerly Twitter), in which X claimed that a company named Bright Data…

Booking.com gatekeeper under EU's online competition rules

euronews.com Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft already fall under the scope of the rules. Hotel and apartment rental website Booking.com has been designated as a…

A new Mozilla report exposes major flaws in social media ad libraries

niemanlab.org A new report has found gaps in the ad libraries of the world’s largest social media platforms, hindering basic transparency efforts ahead of a historic global election year.…

Google's CEO: A timeline of the company's leadership evolution and the legacies each executive left behind

businessinsider.com Sundar Pichai has been Google's CEO since 2015. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach Google was founded in 1998 but operated without a traditional CEO until 2001. Since then, the search…

OpenAI insists it's not launching a search engine nor GPT-5 on Monday

theregister.com OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it's planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday. "Despite reports, OpenAI isn’t launching…

OpenAI confirms May 13 event for 'some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates'

9to5google.com Following a report that the company plans to launch a Google Search competitor next week, OpenAI has just confirmed a May 13 event for new “ChatGPT and GPT-4” updates. In a…

How OpenAI’s New AI Search Engine Plans to Topple Google

tech.co As the race for artificial intelligence dominance continues, OpenAI is planning to launch a new AI-powered search engine next Monday – just a day before Google holds its I/O…

What Is Perplexity AI? The $1 Billion Google Search Competitor

tech.co Despite new artificial intelligence platforms flooding app stores every week, one app has succeded in capturing the attention of the public – as well as investors from huge…

Google brings a variation on ‘Circle to Search’ to iPhone users

techcrunch.com Google has found a way to bring a variation of its clever “Circle to Search” gesture to iPhone users. The new interaction, launched in January, allows Android users to…

Understanding SEO for better optimisation

siliconrepublic.com If you run your own site but aren’t reaching the right audience, how can you touch-up your SEO skills? SEO, or search engine optimisation, is a tool designed to increase…

OpenAI is reportedly trying to poach Googlers for an AI-powered search team

aol.com May 8, 2024 at 7:22 AM • None OpenAI is targeting some Google's employees, The Verge reported. • None Sam Altman's company is trying to poach Googlers for a ChatGPT search…

Machine learning engineer salary: How much do AI techs make?

thestreet.com OpenAI’s free and easy-to-use ChatGPT helped to popularize the use of artificial intelligence (AI) among consumers. ChatGPT and other large language AI models are powered in…

Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted

searchengineland.com Google has started its enforcement of the new site reputation abuse policy by deranking or deindexing portions of websites from the Google Search index. This seems to have…

I Keep Buying Alphabet Stock (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Post Q1 Rally; Here’s Why

finance.yahoo.com Alphabet stock (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) surged over 10% after its Q1 announcement, marking a substantial post-earnings rally. Despite Alphabet being already one of my…

Marketing Briefing: As the Google antitrust trial wraps, marketers weigh future of paid search ad spend

digiday.com This Marketing Briefing covers the latest in marketing for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → As the Google…

How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides

searchengineland.com Google manipulated ad auctions and inflated costs to increase revenue, harming advertisers, the Department of Justice argued last week in the U.S. vs. Google antitrust…