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Google’s new chatbot-style AI Mode search experience, previously an experiment, is launching for US users. Publishers and marketers will have to adjust their search strategies once again.

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. “That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at

People are turning to generative AI to sort out their interpersonal conflicts, but some say it’s heightening their anxiety.

This blog post is co-written with Jonas Neuman from HERE Technologies.  HERE Technologies, a 40-year pioneer in mapping and location technology, collaborated with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) to enhance developer productivity with a generative AI-powered coding assistant. This innovative tool is designed to enhance the onboarding experience for HERE’s self-service Maps API

The annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Gemini, Search, and Google’s latest forays into XR.

Format Boy makes a living teaching Yahoo Boys, notorious West African scammers, how to use AI and deepfake technology to ensnare their next victims.

Others have found more subtle ways to fool the AI into giving problematic responses.