We tried out Google’s new family of multi-modal models with variants compact enough to work on local devices. They work well.

Claude has a workflow-breaking problem, and it's about time it is addressed ...

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).

Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are bringing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 to Spot, adding embodied reasoning for inspections, ...

Google launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, enabling robots to reason, read gauges, and act autonomously in real-world settings.

Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets with fewer resources than previously thought, adding ...

Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he’d declared that the world was entering an AI-first era. He went on to bet his stewardship of the entire company ...

Google Cloud is pushing “Living Games”, powered by autonomous AI agents that interact with players and game worlds in real time. Agentic AI tools could automate playtesting, code generation and other ...

Google has detailed the next phase of its 'Living Games' concept: using autonomous AI agents as a core component to support cloud-based game development. Announced at GDC Festival of Gaming, Google ...

Google’s Android Ecosystem President, Sameer Samat, tells us that Aluminium OS is still on track for a 2026 debut. Samat believes AI is driving renewed interest in laptops, making them better suited ...

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