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
Google is preparing for its Made by Google launch event, which is scheduled for August 12 in New York City, as announced on Tuesday. We hope this event is less embarrassing than last year’s event, which featured Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities, including Stephen Curry and the Jonas Brothers. Numerous rumors are circulating about the
Consider this a belated public service announcement: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings allows the company to store more of your data, including media like “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its artificial intelligence models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google search services, it will be used
Chris Harrison, director of the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn’t think the new subscription will help pay for Meta’s AI spending. “The industry has made enormous strides, even in the last six months, but certainly in the last 18 months, improving the efficiency of token generation and running these models much more
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, founder of Swil Arts Studio. She left her job as a software engineer at Google, spent a year traveling with her partner, and discovered watercolors in Thailand. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Warsaw in the