Apple has asked Google to look into “setting up servers” for a new version of Siri that’s Gemini-powered and meets Apple’s privacy requirements, The Information reports. Apple had already announced in January that Google’s Gemini AI models would help power the upgraded version of Siri it delayed last year, but The Information’s report indicates Apple…
OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity,” The Information says, and it will have a Face…
Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths. Image: Lucia Macedo / Unsplash Source: Wired
One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information. “Thus…
Introduction Google is dismantling the wall between search results and dialogue. In a significant evolution of its AI-powered search, the company is enabling users to fluidly transition from its AI Overview summaries directly into a conversational chat with its Gemini model. This move signals a fundamental shift from retrieving information to actively exploring it through…
Introduction A quiet but profound shift is underway in how we discover news. Google, the world’s primary information gateway, is now using artificial intelligence to actively rewrite the headlines of articles from major publishers. What appears in your Discover feed may no longer be the journalist’s original title, but an AI-generated alternative. This move, framed…
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: Image: BoliviaInteligente / Unsplash In one case that experts described as “really dangerous”,…
Introduction In a quiet but significant retreat, Google has pulled its AI-generated health summaries for certain critical medical queries. This follows a damning investigation revealing the experimental feature dispensed potentially lethal advice. The swift, unannounced removal underscores the high-stakes gamble of deploying AI in life-or-death information domains. Image: Mitchell Luo / Unsplash The Investigation That…
Introduction A quiet but significant retreat is underway in Silicon Valley. Google has begun removing its AI-generated search summaries for specific medical queries after an investigation revealed the system was dispensing dangerously inaccurate health advice. This move highlights the profound risks of deploying generative AI in high-stakes domains, where a single algorithmic error can have…
Introduction In a quiet but significant retreat, Google has begun pulling its controversial AI-generated answers from certain health-related searches. This move follows a damning investigation that revealed the experimental feature was dispensing dangerously inaccurate medical advice, forcing the tech giant to confront the high-stakes reality of deploying artificial intelligence in life-or-death domains. Image: Nathana Rebouças…
