OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
Google might launch an AI product under one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-based research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by incorporating
Google said it has made its largest purchase of solar power and battery storage to date. The first two phases of the project, located in Arkansas, will generate enough electricity to supply about 6% of the state’s peak demand, the company said earlier this week. Electricity from the project will flow directly to the grid,
A group of publishers and authors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and SCRIBE, also alleges that Google intentionally removed or changed copyright information from these
Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a dynamic, navigable gallery of images from across the web. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images directly in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of
Demis Hassabis has issued a stern warning: a very powerful AI may be near and humanity needs to do more to prepare. In a short essay published on X and Substack on Tuesday, Google CEO DeepMind said there is a “precious window” to act before artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrives. AGI refers to AI that