Jumper isn’t the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving the company after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. Jumper announced the move on X on Thursday, saying he would take some ti…
Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP F…
To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make …
Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…
Gemini Live can now recall details from past conversations, closing a gap that’s lingered since memory launched in standard Gemini over a year ago.
Google’s AI Overviews are reportedly treating fan-fiction horror entries from the SCP Foundation as real, citing fake forensic records and pointing users to “official” documents.
Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn’t be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, and the Calendar API. This started rolling […]
Google has expanded Edit with Ask Photos, its AI-powered conversational editing tool, to five new markets. The feature is rolling out for Android users in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, and Italy, but iOS support has not been confirmed for the new reg…
Google’s Pixel Screenshots app is gaining cloud-based AI processing with its latest update, giving the feature more power to search and analyze your screenshots while keeping data in a hardware-secured environment.