Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google details AlphaCode 2, an update to AlphaCode, announced in February 2022, powered by Gemini that beats ~85% of competitors in Codeforces competitions — Alongside its Gemini generative AI model, Google this morning took the wraps off of AlphaCode 2, an improved version …
Read MoreLululook’s Ultra-Nano 3-in-1 charger is a compact and cheap charging unit that, due to some flaws, is outpaced by some of its competition.
Read MoreGlobes Online: AI data startup VAST Data, which unifies storage, databases, and more, raised a $118M Series E led by Fidelity at a $9B valuation, up from $3.7B in May 2021 — VAST Data’s platform unifies storage, database, and containerized compute engine services into a single, scalable software platform.
Read MorePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google is bringing some sophisticated new AI smarts to the Pixel 8 Pro today, but it’s not stopping there. The company is also rolling out its December feature drop for Pixel hardware, which includes two big software features for the 8 Pro — but plenty of new tricks
Read MoreStepping back a smartphone generation is usually where you’ll get the best bang for your buck, but this Google Pixel 7 Pro deal takes that to another level. Woot has the 256GB model of the popular Android phone on offer for just $599.99 right now, which is almost $400 off the retail price. Google Pixel
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The newest Pixel Feature Drop is rolling out now. There are numerous camera upgrades, a new Repair Mode, updates to calling features, and more. The Pixel 8 Pro gets most of the focus, with exclusive upgrades such as Video Boost. Once a quarter, Google launches a slew of new
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, you probably aren’t going to get one in your backyard shop. However, thanks to the University of Manchester, you can get a simulated one in your browser. The pressurized water reactor looks realistic and gives you controls that — we are fairly sure — are
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Google updates the Pixel 8 Pro with Video Boost, to let models adjust videos in the cloud, and announces new Pixel features, like a Repair Mode for servicing — Google is bringing some sophisticated new AI smarts to the Pixel 8 Pro today, but it’s not stopping there.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple, which many had considered very conservative in its approach to AI, quietly released frameworks and model libraries designed to run on its chips and maybe bring generative AI apps to MacBooks. The company’s machine learning research team released MLX, a machine learning framework where developers can
Read MoreKatie Roof / Bloomberg: MaintainX, which helps manufacturing, hospitality, and other companies manage operations and maintenance, raised $50M at a $1B valuation, up from $191M in 2021 — – Bain Capital Ventures leads $50 million investment in firm — McDonald’s, Shell, Duracell are among MaintainX’s clients
Read MoreImage by Jess Weatherbed / The Verge Microsoft says it’s investigating a new issue in Windows 10 and Windows 11 where printers are randomly being renamed to HP LaserJet ones. “Some issues related to printer configurations are being observed on Windows devices which have access to the Microsoft Store,” explains Microsoft in a support note.
Read MoreThe Pixel 8 Pro is the first Gemini-capable phone — but it won’t be the last. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it’s better suited to running in data centers than on your phone. With Gemini
Read MoreGemini was designed from the beginning to be about much more than just text. | Image: Google Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move. Continue reading…
Read MoreGoogle says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.
Read MoreBard has access to Google’s apps and now its best large language model, too. | Image: Google While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever, Google’s Bard has been something of an afterthought. The chatbot has steadily gained new features, including access to your data across other Google
Read MoreGoogle’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.
Read MoreBoris Eldagsen “Promptography” is what Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen calls his creative process. He inputs highly specific and deliberate text prompts into generative AI programs like DALL-E or Midjourney and tweaks their outputs repeatedly to create thought-provoking photographs — or at least, what look like photographs. His work is so convincing that he fooled Sony
Read MoreAlt headline: Making Air Travel More Hygenic With “Flights From Hell” A few weeks ago, I found myself the victim of flights from hell. My first flight was cancelled, leaving me driving home late at night, only to wake again for a red-eye the next morning. That was cancelled as well, with the second replacement
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: Google announces Gemini, a new AI model with three tiers, Ultra, Pro, and Nano, and plans a paid version in 2024; Google says Gemini beats GPT-4 on some tests — Starting today, Gemini is running on Bard and Google’s Pixel 8 Pro phones. The company says it blows OpenAI out of
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to add Gemini Nano, its native, local-first LLM, to Pixel 8 Pro, powering auto-summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply, ahead of an Android launch — Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it’s better suited to running in
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a “marketplace for predators in search of children,” a new lawsuit from the New Mexico attorney general alleges, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit, filed in state court on Tuesday, also
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces its new Cloud TPU v5p, an updated version of its Cloud TPU v5e, consisting of 8,960 chips; Google trained Gemini on the new custom chips — Google today announced the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM) and with that, the company also launched its new Cloud
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Security researchers have found a chain of exploits that allows the bootloader of the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) to be unlocked. Worryingly, this exploit chain allows the device to report a “secure” state to Android, meaning that potentially infected devices will not be recognized by the standard Android
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Code within the Google App indicates that Assistant with Bard is one step closer to release on Android, as several more strings have moved from the beta to the stable version of the app. We also learn several new tidbits about Assistant with Bard, such as a double-checking
Read MoreIf the right-to-repair movement has a famous story, it’s the familiar green and yellow John Deere tractor. Farmers and mechanics have done their own repairs as long as there have been tractors, but more recent Deeres have been locked down such that only Deere-authorised agents can fix them. It’s a trend that has hurt the
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