Adding Google Shorts to your homescreen is part of Google's wider mission to keep you inside its ecosystem and watching its ads. At the moment, the homescreen recommendations are for movies and shows, often sending you other services; by adding YouTube Shorts to the mix, you might potentially watch lots of videos from Google's own services, each with ads. Vertical video isn't the only addition coming to Google TV. As of today, if you're a US owner of a TCL TV with Gemini (such as the TCL QM8K) you can access more generative AI tools in the form of the Nano Banana and Veo apps, for generating i
Google TV will start pushing vertical-video YouTube Shorts right on your homescreen — as if we aren't already fatigued enough with ad-heavy smart TV platforms, now we've got more clutter we didn't ask for…Spotify has already faced significant backlash for pushing AI-generated music, and people generally don't view AI-generated content favorably . Companies are now betting that getting emerging artists to normalize AI…
…A squeeze on components caused by AI companies, in addition to general economic headwinds – including tariffs introduced by the US government – has pushed the price of the PS5 Pro up to an…
…The group plan to push for better protections against layoffs, changes to remote working policies, use of generative AI, and mandatory crunch. The devs also want to generally increase the "transparency and…
…Senator Bernie Sanders' push for a law imposing a moratorium on data center construction echoes AI fears enunciated by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton, and others. Hodan Omaar, who works at…
This is something that has bothered me for quite a while, and I don't see a lot of people talk about it: Agents, in most cases, impersonate the human operator, by design, with no way to enforce, disclose, or control it. …
Sharing a small Mac app I built around OpenAI’s gpt-realtime-2 model. You call up a voice coding agent and talk to it like you’d talk to a freelancer ("make the hero tighter, put a product image on the right, that one's …
Hi HN, I'm James. Over the last few months I built a Warhammer 40K 10th-edition vertical slice as an experiment in how far GenAI tools can take a solo dev on a non-trivial 2D game.For sprite generation, whilst creative e…
Throughout my career I've worked on many different teams that often spanned many different projects and repos. Sometimes the tech stack was similar but naturally the tooling and development process grew in different dire…
There’s a lot of hype (and hate!) right now around "Vibe Coding". And rightly so. The idea that you can build out software entirely by kicking back and commanding AI agents to do the typing for you is an incredibly excit…
…Microsoft made a big deal about Copilot for Gaming last year, and said in March that the gaming-focused Copilot would be coming to current generation consoles sometime this year. Now, though…
…AI startups such as Wispr Flow are now betting that generative AI can turn those habits into a broader computing layer. To make the product more relevant for Indian users, Wispr Flow…
…pushing for the furor to go beyond online outrage and upvoted dunks and spark a boycott of Nvidia that will actually pressure it to back off of bringing the generative AI arms…
…Consortium has generated significant industry buzz around open AI networking standards. Spectrum-X is already using RoCEv2 with MRC deployed across multiple generations of Spectrum-X switches. NVIDIA’s push to open…
For as popular as ARC Raiders has become, it hasn't gotten away with it completely unscathed; the use of generative AI tools in its development certainly caused a stir. One way…
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