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Google finally brings Wallet passes to Wear OS watches along with transit directions
As part of its MWC announcements, Google said it's bringing Google Wallet passes to Wear OS. It means you'll finally have easy access to boarding passes, event tickets and more on your Android watch.
Google explains why Gemini's image generation feature overcorrected for diversity
After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity.
Google Pay app is shutting down in the US later this year
Google has announced that Pay will be discontinued in the US on June 4, 2024 in a push to simplify its payment apps.
Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate people after overcorrecting for diversity in historical images
Google said Thursday it’s pausing its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate people. The move comes after viral social posts showed the AI tool overcorrecting for diversity, producing “historical” images of Nazis, America’s Founding Fathers and the Pope as people of color.
Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models
Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content.
Chrome's latest experimental AI feature can help you write
Google's "Help me write" can literally help you write more descriptive sentences or even full paragraphs from a short prompt.
Google's sign-in and sign-up pages have a new look
After teasing it for the past couple of weeks, Google is rolling out a new sign-in page with a slightly cleaner design.
Google promises to fix Gemini's image generation following complaints that it's 'woke'
Google's Gemini has been criticized for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals.
Google's Duet AI for businesses is now called Gemini too
Google revealed that its Duet AI for enterprises has been rebranded to Gemini.
Google introduces a lightweight open AI model called Gemma
Google says Gemma is its contribution to the open community and is meant to help developers "in building AI responsibly."
Google brings a version of Pixel's 'Hold for Me' tool to more phones and desktop via Search
Google Search is testing a feature called Talk to a Live Representative that’s eerily similar to the Pixel phone’s Hold for Me tool. The algorithm will place the call and wait for a service rep before handing it over to you.
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro is a new, more efficient AI model
Google unveiled Gemini 1.5 Pro, which the company describes as delivering “dramatically enhanced performance.” The announcement follows the unveiling of Gemini 1.0 Ultra last week, alongside the rebranding of the Bard chatbot to Gemini.
New York City is suing social media companies for allegedly harming the mental health of children
New York City is suing Meta, Google, Snap and TikTok for "fueling nationwide youth mental health crisis."
Google will use AI and satellite imagery to monitor methane leaks
Google and the Environmental Defense Fund have teamed up to track methane emissions using satellite images and AI. The EDF's MethaneSAT is expected to help provide the most comprehensive picture yet of global methane leaks.
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
The Google Pixel Fold is $400 off right now
A recent deal has dropped the foldable Google Pixel Fold smartphone back down to an all-time low of $1,399.
Google rebrands its Bard AI chatbot as Gemini, which now has its own Android app
Google has renamed the Bard chatbot and Duet AI as Gemini to maintain consistent branding across its generative AI products.
YouTube reportedly has an Apple Vision Pro app on its roadmap
Google reportedly plans to develop a YouTube app for the Apple Vision Pro. The Verge says a YouTube spokesperson confirmed the company plans to make a native Vision Pro app, while it optimizes YouTube for Safari as a stopgap.
The 4K Google Chromecast is back on sale for $40
A new deal has brought the Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K back down to $40, which is 20 percent off its usual price.
Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app
An unconfirmed changelog shared on X by Android app developer Dylan Roussel suggests Google is planning to introduce some changes to Bard on February 7 along with new Gemini products.