Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, is getting new AI-powered features and personalization updates, including the ability to report road updates conversationally and get personalized navigation. Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, reflecting the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini into all of its products while better positioning Waze
Here’s a delicious AI irony. For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the Internet, it can be used for the development and output of AI models. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to avoid it, without success. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest
Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they see was created with AI technology. AI makes it easier for businesses to create ads, place their branded products in various environments, and save money on real-world e-commerce photography. But it can also be misleading if consumers don’t know
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Gu Yichen, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in California. After being laid off by Google, he returned to Amazon, where he works on an H-1B visa. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I spent my sophomore year of high school as an
Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced Wednesday. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently launched model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s latest push to bring more generative AI tools to its consumer apps
If you ask tech workers what people don’t understand about working in their industry, they’ll tell you: a lot of things. In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals at companies like Amazon, Google, and Snap challenged assumptions that their jobs consist primarily of coding, that AI has made their jobs easier, and that Big Tech