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Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco

As anyone who so much as glanced at the internet in the past few weeks probably noticed, Google’s sweeping AI upgrade to its search engine had a rocky...

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new...

Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up

When bizarre and misleading answers to search queries generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature went viral on social media last week, the company issued statements that generally...

Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads

Last week Google introduced a radical shake-up of search that presents users with AI-generated answers to their queries. Now the company says it will soon start including ads...

It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It

Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of artificial intelligence, and prompted by competition from AI upstarts like...

Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules

YouTube has updated its rulebook for the era of deepfakes. Starting today, anyone uploading video to the platform must disclose certain uses of synthetic media, including generative AI,...

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A new breed of Android flagships is coming and it should make Samsung nervous

A new wave of Android flagships is on the horizon, and they’re not playing it safe. The biggest shift is that these phones...

Watch the trailer for Science Saru’s Ghost in the Shell anime series

A new trailer has given us our best look yet at the upcoming The Ghost in the Shell anime. While it might not...

Apple is opening Siri to pick AI models, but there’s only only that makes sense to me 

Apple promised us a smarter, more capable Siri at WWDC 2024. The pitch was compelling: a Siri that understands your personal context, digs...

YouTube CEO opens up about AI slop, and it sounds like cozy promises

YouTube is in a slightly tricky position right now. On one hand, it’s encouraging creators to use AI tools to make content faster...

Meta’s next smart glasses sound like a treat for humans stuck with prescription lenses

For the billions of people who rely on corrective glasses every day (including me), smart glasses have always been a slightly awkward conversation....