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28 May

The next chapter of our Gemini era

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For years, we’ve been investing deeply in AI as the single best way to improve Search and all of our products. We’re excited by the progress, for example with our Search Generative Experience, or SGE, which you can try in Search Labs. AI is also now central to two businesses that have grown rapidly in recent years: our Cloud and Workspace services and our popular subscription service Google One, which is just about to cross 100 million subscribers.A new state of the artIn December, we took a significant step on our journey to make AI more helpful for everyone with…

28 May

Microsoft Phone Link will soon let you extract text from images – gHacks Tech News

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Microsoft is testing a new feature in its Phone Link app. The PC app will soon allow users to extract text from images that are stored on your Android Phone. The feature uses optical character recognition (OCR), to scan for text in images and saves it to the clipboard. You can then paste it into a text editor or another app of your choice. As you may know, the OCR option is already available in Windows 11's Snipping tool, it was added to the app last year. It is particularly handy when you take a screenshot of an image, and…

28 May

Numbers Station

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Briefings highlight generational AI scaleups, startups, and projects that are defining new categories and changing how we live & work. For this issue, I am fortunate to have chatted with two of the four co-founders of Numbers Station, Christopher Aberger and Ines Chami. Read more to learn about their story and where they are taking Numbers Station next.Numbers Station is building an intelligent data stack tool powered by foundation models so data workers spend less time on mundane data tasks, and more time generating insights. They are taking a layer approach to tackling the problem space by focusing first on…

28 May

New AI generates CRISPR proteins unlike any seen in nature

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Berkeley-based startup Profluent has trained an AI to imagine new, never-before-seen CRISPR proteins — opening the door to gene editors with capabilities beyond what we’ve found in the wild. They’re also making a brand new CRISPR system open source, so any scientist can now start leveraging an AI-designed gene editor to advance their research. The background: In nature, bacteria evolved CRISPR as a defense against viruses, but in the lab, we can program CRISPR systems to make precise edits to any gene, which has proven to be hugely useful in medicine, agriculture, and more.Current CRISPR gene editors can make edits in…

28 May

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max is better as a retro gaming device than a streamer

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Here’s an open secret: Every cheap streaming stick kind of sucks. Yes, it’s great that people can access so many shows and movies with devices that cost less than $50. It’s great that the best of them no longer force you to suffer through constant lag and performance hiccups, too. But over time, the Faustian bargain we make with these things becomes increasingly obvious. We save cash upfront, then we repay our debt through a shoddy user experience.I’ve been thinking about this since buying Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max a couple of months ago. It’s a good example of…

28 May

Release notes for Deephaven version 0.29 | Deephaven

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Deephaven Community release 0.29 brought forth some new features, quality-of-life improvements, and better API documentation. This release also includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. For full release notes, see the GitHub release page.Function generated tablesReal-time table creation should be easy. Deephaven Community v0.29 introduces function-generated tables, which allow users to create ticking tables from pure Python functions. The function is then re-evaluated at regular time intervals, and updated data from the function flows seamlessly into your table. These intervals can be determined by a constant, or by one or more ticking tables that act as the trigger.For…

28 May

EIC Scaling Club announces its first 48 European deeptech scaleups

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Today the EIC Scaling Club unveiled the selection of the first 48 European deep tech scaleups to join its curated community of standout companies, investors, corporate innovators, mentors, media firms and other industry stakeholders. The list, which can be consulted in full below or here, includes EIC-backed companies such as Dronamics, Sherpa.ai, Sympower and Axelera AI. The selected companies fall within four predefined market sector opportunities: Next-Gen Computing Digital Security and Trust Smart Mobility Renewable Energies. In total, ten market sector opportunities have been identified as crucial for positive impact; others include Clean Fuels and Hydrogen, New Spacetech and New…

27 May

Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

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Introducing Gemini 1.5By Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, on behalf of the Gemini teamThis is an exciting time for AI. New advances in the field have the potential to make AI more helpful for billions of people over the coming years. Since introducing Gemini 1.0, we’ve been testing, refining and enhancing its capabilities.Today, we’re announcing our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5.Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance. It represents a step change in our approach, building upon research and engineering innovations across nearly every part of our foundation model development and infrastructure. This includes making Gemini 1.5 more efficient to train…

27 May

VMware Workstation Pro 17 and Fusion Pro 13 are now free for personal use – gHacks Tech News

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Broadcom has announced that it is making its desktop hypervisor products free for home users. VMware Fusion Pro 13 and Workstation Pro 17 are now free for personal use. In case you didn't know, Broadcom acquired VMware in a staggering $69 Billion deal in November 2023. Now that the two apps are free to use, what about their future? This does not mean the development of the applications have ceased. Michael Roy, the Product Line Manager for Desktop Hypervisor products, wrote that VMware Desktop Hypervisor apps will have two license models; a Free Personal Use or a Paid Commercial Use…

27 May

BabyAGI

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Briefings highlight generational AI scaleups, startups, and projects. Very fortunate to have chatted with with BabyAGI creator, Yohei Nakajima, for this piece. Read on to learn more about Yohei’s background as a prolific builder and BabyAGI’s two months-long history. BabyAGI is an AI-powered task management agent. It automates brainstorming and task management by generating tasks according to the outcomes of previous tasks and a set objective. The system leverages off-the-shelf models, APIs, and components to create, prioritize, and execute tasks.Most advances that AI Twitter folks prattle about are technical advances resulting in better, simpler, faster models. These advances are the…