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At some point soon (Google didn’t say exactly when) this subscription will also unlock Gemini across Google’s Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, where it works as a smart assistant similar to the GPT-4-powered Copilot that Microsoft is trialing in Office 365. When can you get it? The free Gemini app (powered by Gemini Pro) is available from today in English in the US. Starting next week, you’ll be able to access it across the Asia Pacific region in English and in Japanese and… Source link

Eric Risberg/AP Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, takes part in a discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Washington CNN  —  … Source link

When Diane Hirsh Theriault’s co-worker returned from lunch to Google’s Cambridge, Mass., office one afternoon in October, his work badge couldn’t open a turnstile. He quickly realized it was a sign that he had been laid off. Ms. Hirsh Theriault soon learned that most of her fellow Google News engineers in Cambridge had also lost their jobs. More than 40 people in the news division were cut, a company union said, though a number of them were later offered jobs elsewhere inside Google. Ms…. Source link

As Google phases out third-party cookies in Chrome, the idea of them disappearing by the end of the year has become about as clear as a foggy day in London.  In fact, some ad executives are putting their money on cookies waving goodbye sometime in the first quarter of next year. They just can’t see it happening anytime before then, despite Google’s insistence that they will be gone before the year is done — especially not when the market considers that its alternative (the Privacy… Source link

A long-awaited upgrade to Google’s sharing service is finally rolling out … Source link

Image Credits: Google Google announced today that its new Circle to Search feature is rolling out globally on the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. The new feature, which was unveiled earlier this month, lets users search from anywhere on their phone using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling or tapping. The tech giant believes the new feature aims to make it more natural to engage with Google Search whenever a questions pops into your head,… Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Art Selfie 2 has a pretty liberal interpretation of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Screenshot from Art Selfie 2 Google just brought back its Art Selfie feature — with a generative AI upgrade. Users can reimagine selfies in the style of famous paintings.  You can also receive facts about each painting or the chosen artistic style. Since generative AI took the world by storm, we’ve seen myriad ways to reimagine the… Source link

Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in a video (space) and how they simultaneously move and change (time). Ars Technica reports this method lets Lumiere create the video in one process instead of putting smaller still frames together.  Lumiere starts with creating a base frame from the prompt. Then, it uses the STUNet framework to begin approximating where objects within that frame… Source link

This article is a WTF explainer, in which we break down media and marketing’s most confusing terms. More from the series → The third-party cookie going away won’t only affect advertisers’ abilities to target ads but also their means of knowing which of those ads led to product sales or conversion events. To help fill that cookie-sized hole in the digital ad industry’s measurement system, Google has developed the Attribution Reporting API as part of its Privacy Sandbox set… Source link

Google Research Since the release of DALL-E 2 at the end of 2022, text-to-image generators have been all the rage with plenty of worthy competitors entering the market. Now, over a year later, we are at the dawn of a new technology: AI video generation.  On Tuesday, Google Research released a research paper on Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that can create highly realistic video from text prompts and other images.  Also: The best AI image generators of 2024: DALL-E 2 and… Source link