DECIPHERING: The World of a Friend with Being
Why the “Laundry Room” phase is the ultimate UX laboratory.Continue reading on Medium »
Artificial Intelligence, audio, disability, google
ai, Climate, data centers, enterprise, google, meta, microsoft, natural gas
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
ai, AI Funding & Investment, Ai video, business, enterprise-ai, google, Veo 3.1
Google Expands AI Video Capabilities in Vids with Avatar Control, Veo 3.1 Integration, and YouTube Export
Google has introduced a series of AI-driven updates to its Vids video editor, enhancing its capabilities for enterprise content creation through advanced generative and editing tools. The latest release enables users to direct and customize AI avatars using natural language prompts, allowing dynamic interactions with products, props, and environments while maintaining visual consistency. The platform […]
ad tracker, ai, DoubleClick, google, Google Analytics, meta, Meta Pixel, online privacy, Perplexity, policy
Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says
Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
ai, Ai video, google, Google Veo
Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
Google Vids brings together Google’s most capable AI creation tools.
ai, gemma, generative-ai, google, llm, llm-reasoning, llm-release, LLMs, lm-studio, local-llms, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, vision-llms
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Four new vision-capable Apache 2.0 licensed reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind, sized at 2B, 4B, 31B, plus a 26B-A4B Mixture-of-Experts.
Google emphasize “unprecedented level of intelligence-p…
AI in practice, Artificial Intelligence, gemma, google, Open Source
Google’s Gemma 4 is now available with Apache 2.0 licensing for the first time
Google is releasing Gemma 4, its most capable open model family yet. The four new models run on everything from smartphones to workstations and ship under a fully open Apache 2.0 license for the first time.
The article Google's Gemma 4 is…
ai, Artificial Intelligence, gemma, generative-ai, google
Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google’s open models in a year.
ai, Apps, google, Google Vids, Video Editing
Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app
Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.
Decoder, Facebook, google, Instagram, meta, Podcasts, social media, Streaming, tech, YouTube
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in New Mexico against Meta, and another in California against both companies, which have said they plan to appeal. These are complicated cases with some huge repercussions for both how […]