Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 37 of “The AI Fix”, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percent… Continue reading The AI Fix #37: DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I approached my wife with a request. I needed to spend about $2000 on two 1 TB LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme external hard drives so that we could back up all our personal and work-related data, replicate it, and keep one of th… Continue reading Online Accounts 2025: First Steps (Premium)
News analysis: The big AI platforms are emerging as frontline early warning systems, detecting nation-state hackers at the outset of their campaigns. Can this help save the threat intel industry?
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Google’s Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge:
The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. … Continue reading Did Google Fake Gemini AI’s Output For Its Super Bowl Ad?
An email announcing Google’s elimination of various programmes intended to improve diversity at the company was sent to employees on Wednesday. Continue reading Google Halts Its Diversity and Inclusion Hiring Goals
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has edited Gemini’s AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no… Continue reading Google Pulls Incorrect Gouda Stat From Its AI Super Bowl Ad
A Super Bowl ad for Google Gemini appears to be showing an AI-generated description for a website that the assistant didn’t actually create.
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Google has begun internal testing of a new “AI Mode” for its search engine, powered by its Gemini 2.0 AI model, according to a company email seen by technology news site 9to5Google. The feature, which appears alongside existing filters like Images and … Continue reading Google Tests AI-Powered Search Mode With Employees
Google parent Alphabet plans to spend $75 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, up from $52.5 billion last year, as it races to compete with Microsoft and Meta in AI infrastructure. CNBC: On its earnings call, Alphabet said it expects $16 billion to… Continue reading Google To Spend $75 Billion on AI Push
Google has updated its public AI principles page to remove a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance. TechCrunch reports: Asked for comment, the company pointed TechCrunch to a new blog post on “responsible AI.” It notes, in part, “we believ… Continue reading Google Removes Pledge To Not Use AI For Weapons From Website