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Here are Google’s latest AI updates from December including Gemini 2.0, GenCast, and Willow.

A snapshot of how top companies, governments, researchers and startups are enhancing their work with Google’s AI solutions.

Open Health Stack, a set of open-source tools from Google, allows developers to create digital health solutions for low-resource settings around the world.

Today we’re refreshing Google’s Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy — the rules of the road that help people use the generative AI tools found in…

Learn more about Google Cloud’s AI predictions for businesses in 2025.

Whisk is a new Google Labs experiment that lets you prompt using images for a fast and fun creative process.

Learn more about Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First program for North American startups.

Here are Google’s best AI tips and tricks from 2024.

We commissioned artists Farah Al Qasimi, Charlie Engman and Max Pinckers to envision possible futures with AI for a new exhibition.

The Google AI: Release Notes podcast dedicated its most recent episode to the release of Gemini 2.0. Host Logan Kilpatrick chatted with Tulsee Doshi, the…

With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?

Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field…

It’s past time we applauded the creative skills of LLMs—and it might make us appreciate humans more too.

A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.

Chatbots aren’t very good at picking gifts, but that didn’t stop me from burning the planet in a quest for the perfect baking equipment.

Plus: Google’s U-turn on creepy “fingerprint” tracking, the LockBit ransomware gang’s teased comeback, and a potential US ban on the most popular routers in America.

A free VPN app called Big Mama is selling access to people’s home internet networks. Kids are using it to cheat in a VR game…

The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.

In a previously unreported August memo, the Department of Homeland Security urged state and local police to conduct exercises to test their ability to respond…

Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people from reporting attempts to bilk them out of their…

We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.

After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.

AI is elbowing its way into ever more jobs, but while how we work will change, people skills will still be the most important factor.

Fragmented and focused social platforms might be good for helping you find a knitting community. But extremist groups are also using them to normalize darker…

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.

I tried OpenAI’s Sora AI Video Generator and was blown away by the results but underwhelmed by the limited number of high-resolution video generations and…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang shows off the company’s new $249 Jetson Ori Nano meant for developers, students and builders in the generative AI Space.

The music studio that made the Beatles famous hits the road in Volvo’s new electric SUV. I visited Abbey Road Studios in London to check…

Watch Google’s Quantum AI director of hardware, Julian Kelly, show off Google’s new Quantum Computing Chip capabilities, performing a standard benchmark computation in less than…

An exclusive chat with Xreal’s CEO on the present and future, and a look at Xreal’s new One and One Pro glasses.