Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites
Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites

Google has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation it calls the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group sent more than 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users over a two-week period in May. The messages contained …

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepM…

Google’s new Gemini TV controls are here and TCL owners get them first

Google has launched Gemini TV controls exclusively on select TCL Google TV models, letting users adjust picture and sound settings using simple voice commands.

Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.
Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model player movement, forecast dynamics up to eight seconds into the future, and recommend tactical adjustments, all from broadcas…

Google built an AI that can see football plays before they happen

Google DeepMind has unveiled TacticAI, an AI system developed alongside Liverpool FC that can predict football player movement up to eight seconds in advance while also generating tactical recommendations for set pieces.

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In…

Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them
Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prep…

If you’re using AI tools like ChatGPT to fact-check news, there’s some bad news for you

MIT researchers warn that relying heavily on AI chatbots like ChatGPT for fact-checking news may weaken users’ ability to independently spot misinformation.

Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI

If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]

Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new “Search Services History” setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time […]