Google I/O 2024: AI Overviews in Search are rolling out to users this week

It's been teased and tested for over a year, but it's finally here: AI Overviews in Search.

The first major announcement of Google's I/O 2024 event, the tech giant started off with the reveal that its Search Generative Experience (SGE) labs feature will be rolling out to US users within the week. This new feature allows Google to provide AI-generated overviews or summaries...

Ask Photos is Google's new AI feature for Google Photos

At Google's annual I/O conference, the tech giant announced a more powerful AI-based search experience within Google Photos.

People upload 6 billion photos and videos to the platform every day, and now they'll be able to search for those elements more efficiently using not just keywords but phrases.

CEO Sundar Pichai gave one example: "Say you're at a parking station...

Google I/O 2024: 'AI Agents' are AI personal assistants that can return your shoes

Google will be sharing lots of products ready to utilize at today's big Google I/O event.

However, one announcement from CEO Sundar Pichai was more of an idea that's in the works: AI Agents. According to Pichai, AI Agents are still in "early days," but their description shows what Google envisions what AI can do for users. 

Pichai described AI agents as "intelligent systems that show reasoning, planning, and memory" and can "think multiple steps ahead" to complete more...

Google I/O: Project Astra can tell where you live just by looking out the window

Google has a new AI agent that can tell you things about what's around you. A lot of things.

Called "Project Astra," it's a Gemini-based multimodal AI tool that lets you point your phone's camera at real-life stuff and get a spoken description of what you're looking at.

In a demo, shown during Google's I/O conference Tuesday, the tool was pointed at a loudspeaker, correctly identifying a part of it as a tweeter. Far more impressively, the phone's camera was then turned onto a snippet of code...

Google's AI model just got faster with Gemini 1.5 Flash

Gemini is getting a facelift.

Sundar Pichai announced a new model of Google Gemini, Google's AI model, at the company's annual Google I/O event on May 14. 

"We want everyone to benefit from what Gemini can do," Pichai said.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is a "natively multi-model" originally announced in February. The company announced at I/O that it will help support AI Overviews, Ask Photos, NotebookLM, and more. In the seemingly perpetual fight to the front...

Google Search at Google I/O: You can now ask questions with video and 3 other features

Google's vision of an AI-driven future for search is coming to fruition with the rollout of AI Overviews in the US, and soon globally. This feature, previously dubbed the Search Generative Experience (SGE), introduces AI-generated summaries at the top of many search results, changing how billions interact with Google Search.

At the forefront of the tech giant's generative AI additions to search, revealed at its I/O 2024 event, are AI Overviews. This new tool aims to streamline search...

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It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It

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Nevada court sides with NFL in Gruden lawsuit

The Nevada Supreme Court sided with the NFL against Jon Gruden, ruling that he was required to file his claim through league arbitration and thus ineligible to sue the NFL for his termination.

Sources: Green Bay set to hire Gottlieb as coach

Green Bay is expected to hire sports media personality Doug Gottlieb, who doesn't have any college coaching experience, as its basketball coach, sources told ESPN.

Tiger paired with Scott, Bradley at PGA Champ.

Four-time PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods will tee off at 8:04 a.m. at Valhalla Country Club on Thursday, while defending champion Brooks Koepka tees off just 33 minutes later.

The legend of 'Playoff Bob': What Sergei Bobrovsky's teammates (and the stats) say

The veteran goalie has the Panthers in a prime position -- although his postseason numbers aren't looking too great.

Why no lead is safe, the Sam Bennett effect and other Round 2 lessons of the Stanley Cup playoffs

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Gemini will integrate with Calendar, Tasks, and Keep

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Part of Google’s vision at its I/O developer conference this year has involved transforming its Gemini AI chatbot into more of a digital assistant that specializes in dealing with our day-to-day tedium. One of the new ways it’s doing that is by integrating Gemini with Google Calendar, Tasks, and Keep.

The new integrations, which Google says are coming “soon” come by way of the extensions the company added to Bard last year and have...

Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model

Veo demos show that Google’s AI-generated video capabilities have come a long way. | Image: Google

It’s been three months since OpenAI demoed its captivating text-to-video AI, Sora, and now Google is trying to steal some of that spotlight. Announced during its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google says Veo — its latest generative AI video model — can generate “high-quality” 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic...

Android is getting an AI-powered scam call detection feature

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Google is working on new protections to help prevent Android users from falling victim to phone scams. During its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it’s testing a new call monitoring feature that will warn users if the person they’re talking to is likely attempting to scam them and encourage them to end such calls.

Google says the feature utilizes Gemini Nano — a reduced version of the company’s Gemini large...

Google’s Gemini can build an entire vacation itinerary ‘in a matter of seconds’

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Gemini, Google’s ChatGPT competitor, is getting new trip planning capabilities, the company announced today at its I/O developer conference.

Based on the user’s prompt, the AI model will now research publicly available information as well as tap into specific details like flight times and hotel bookings to work up a custom, multiday vacation itinerary “in a matter of seconds.”

In a briefing with reporters, Google VP and general manager of Gemini,...

Google is building Gemini Nano AI right into Chrome

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Google is building its Gemini AI into Chrome on desktop. During its I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that Chrome 126 will use Gemini Nano to power on-device AI features, such as text generation.

Gemini Nano is the lightweight large language model Google introduced to the Pixel 8 Pro last year — and, later, the Pixel 8. To get Gemini Nano on Chrome, Google says it tweaked the model and optimized the browser to “load the model quickly.”

The integration will...

Google’s Circle to Search will help you with your math homework

Google might tell you f = ma, or something. I haven’t been to school for a long time. | Image: Google

Google is enhancing Android’s Circle to Search — the feature that lets you literally circle something on your Android phone’s screen to search it on Google — with a new ability to generate instructions on how to solve school math and physics problems.

Using an Android phone or tablet, students can now use Circle to Search to get AI assistance on mathematical word problems...