The case revolves around a teen whom Character.ai allegedly encouraged into suicide over a long interaction, and whether the developers should be held accountable for his tragic death, in a wrongful death lawsuit.
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In it, Google explains how it can make Gemini and search better by tailoring responses to the vast data Google keeps on you from prior searches, docs in Google Drive — and even your past emails in Gmail.
All of this data is under Google’s control and is infinitely searchable by an AI, which won’t have to spend much time to get to know you «better.»
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The glasses pair with Gemini on your phone, has an in-lens display, camera, ear buds and microphones and can show you your Android apps.
More importantly, though, is the integration with the AI. The glasses become Gemini’s eyes and ears and will see all you see and listen to conversations around you.
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The most important news they presented is AI Mode going live in the USA, using what is likely the most valuable screen real estate on the planet — Google’s front page — to leverage the new AI search feature. It’s been in testing for about a week.
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— AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that is able to make new discoveries in computing and mathematics, says Matej Balog, a researcher at Google DeepMind, to VentureBeat.
Google doesn’t say when the model will be available to the general public, but is planning on working with certain scientists and is «exploring» a broader release.
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By doing this, albeit in their Labs section, Google shows they are considering using some of the most valuable screen real estate on the planet to further promote its Gemini AI models.
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Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.
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AdSense apparently began experimenting with ads for AI chatbots, or, as they call it «conversational AI,» in chatbots iAsk and Liner, according to Bloomberg, which is paywalled.
Just a test?
SEO roundtable quotes Bloomberg as saying that AdSense had «expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by AI startups.»
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— I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conversation at LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference, according to CNBC
Microsoft says they have made progress with Python, and less with C++ projects, but he is still pointing that some projects could be entirely written by AI.
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The same slide showed daily traffic was at 35 million active users.
Impressive growth
That signals an exponential growth from around 10 million monthly active users from late last year, reports Ars Technica.
It also shows the reach that’s been possible by defaulting to Gemini over Assistant on Android phones and the strength of offering 2.5 Pro to free users just a short while ago. Gemini is also the default assistant on Galaxy phones
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The two year deal included monthly payments and a share of ad revenue, writes The Verge.
The aim of the deal is to give Gemini the pride of being the default AI assistant og Galaxy phones, which sell a ton worldwide.
Should Google loose the trial, which is only for remedies after earlier being found guilty of a monopoly in advertising, they would be forbidden from deals like these, will have to sell Chrome, and open search data to licensing deals.
Read more at The Verge, at 9to5Google and a paywalled Bloomberg.
Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT head of product, Nick Turley, said in open court that they «would be interested» in buying it, according to Reuters.
The Pro 2.5 is currently one of the best large language model out there, and it is now available for free – with no set qoutas or limits on prompts.
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That’s despite a multitude of hallucinations and other issues with the AI model, Ars Technica writes.
Assistant was first introduced in 2016, listened for the «Hey Google»-prompt, and worked well for mostly playing stuff off Youtube, but often frustrated users on other tasks.
Only supported assistant
Now the entire Android universe will be using Gemini instead, as the only supported assistant across cars, cellphones, TVs and tablets, which should be a enormous boon to the user base for the AI model.
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— Mens generativ AI kan utløse et enormt kreativt potensiale, representerer det også nye risikoer, sier Google i en bloggpost. — Det kan gjøre det mulig for skaperne å spre falsk informasjon — både med og uten vilje.
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