Recursive Self-Improvement or RSI is widely considered the holy grail of AI, and a wild rumor now suggests that Google's DeepMind - the unlikeliest of AI labs in the current paradigm - has achieved this feat, which then puts a cynical spin on a somewhat coordinated push from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk to try to achieve regulatory capture of the broader AI sphere by advocating for pacing progress on AI models. Cynisim abounds as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk all call for pacing the progress on AI, which critics argue only serves as a front for disadvantaging other AI […]

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An aging Pixel smartphone will always have multiple use cases, and while Google’s Tensor might be the most underpowered SoC after Huawei’s Kirin series, it’s still capable enough of running smaller AI models if configured properly. For instance, one enthusiast made a cyberdeck housing a Pixel 7 and ran Qwen2.5-abliterate:3b, a 3-billion-parameter uncensored model, which has its safety filters completely removed. Unfortunately, even running a smaller model on a Pixel 7 requires patience, as the handset only manages 5 tokens per second Using Claude Code, Redditor “Levfo” generated the 3D-printed CAD files for the cyberdeck case used for the Pixel […]

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Google's new feature will transfer your passkeys as well.

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.

The ongoing constraints in the DRAM sphere are now forcing AI hyperscalers to resort to quirky hacks just to get their hands on desperately needed memory, as Google appears to be doing with its retired servers by stripping them of their DDR4 modules. Google is now apparently reusing older DDR4 modules in retired servers, establishing an internal recycling supply chain of sorts Nikhil Cherian, the senior director of Google's supply chain infrastructure, disclosed at a summit forum recently that the AI industry has rapidly shifted from being compute-constrained to memory-constrained, with high-performance memory already accounting for around 75 percent of […]

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While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements.

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process. 

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.