Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the new in a post on X Tuesday evening. “This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of …...Read More

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. The NS-25 mission will launch from Blue’s launch site in West Texas on May 19. The launch window opens at 8:30 AM. …...Read More

Mobile app developers, including Patreon and Grammarly, are already integrating with Gemini Nano, its smallest AI model, the company announced during its I/O developer keynote on Tuesday. The companies, along with other select developers were invited to work with Gemini Nano through an early access program announced last year, the …...Read More

Reddit announced on Tuesday the launch of five new tools for AMA (Ask Me Anything), its Q&A feature where celebrities, public figures, organizations and Redditors engage with community members and provide answers about a certain topic. The new features include the ability to add guest collaborators, a scheduling function, notifications …...Read More

Google says it’s developed a new family of generative AI models “fine-tuned” for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google’s Gemini models — are designed to “conversationally” tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says. …...Read More

At its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference, Google announced AI-generated quizzes, where a new conversational AI tool on YouTube will allow users to figuratively “raise their” hand when watching educational videos. Viewers can ask clarifying questions, get helpful explanations or take a quiz on the subject matter. The company …...Read More

It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during its I/O 2024 by its own count. CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the ‘hard work’ of counting for us. No surprise, of …...Read More

Though overshadowed by AI news this year, Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference also focuses on what’s new for those building for Android. This year, it’s Google Play that’s getting attention, with a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to …...Read More

Google’s Gemini on Android, its AI replacement for Google Assistant, will soon be taking advantage of its ability to deeply integrate with Android’s mobile operating system and Google’s apps. At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced that users will be able to pull up the …...Read More

Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt. Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference, Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits …...Read More