Google’s Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create images based on your personal context. …
… The report also mentions AI as a target for attackers, saying “GTIG has observed adversaries increasingly target the integrated components that grant AI systems their utility, such as autonomous skills and third-party data connectors.” Google’s report also details how hackers are using “persona-dri… …
When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said. “Google has denied taking that land.” Technically, she explains, Th… …
… OpenAI’s models, by comparison, appeared in more than 230 examples, while Google and Anthropic each appeared dozens of times. A similar pattern appeared in another database of more ambitious government AI projects with smaller numbers of users. …
… If you have certain Gemini AI features enabled on Chrome, it’s likely that the 4GB file has already been downloaded to your system. You can check by opening your Chrome data folders and inspecting the OptGuideOnDeviceModel directory for the weights.bin file. …
… Omni Flash also has “a lot” more world knowledge than Veo because of Gemini’s training data, according to Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google. Gemini Omni Flash will be available starting Tuesday in the Gemini app, Google Flow, and YouTube Shorts.
… Is there anything you’ve done differently now after 15 years of architecting and training this model, or is it just, yep, we’re going to collect all the data and run the training just as we did, and we have more compute now, so it’s going to be better? …
… Data has shown that congestion pricing is succeeding in both aspects , raising needed cash for transit and discouraging drivers from entering congested Manhattan. …
… That may look like “thinking through” a lot of different potential paths, launching sub-agents to do portions of a task, or verifying the accuracy of different steps of the process. “You put in your one-sentence prompt… and it’ll talk out loud to itself for thousands and thousands of tokens, thousa… …
… That’s not to mention data privacy fears regarding sensitive health information. On that front, Google says it will continue to keep Fitbit data siloed from its ad business; AI model training is opt-in and turned off by default. …