Google’s AI feature in Gmail and productivity apps will cost big businesses $30 a month per user Google and Microsoft will be charging the same amount for artificial intelligence tools that augment productivity products used by businesses

Google made a watermark for AI images that you can’t edit out With SynthID, you should be able to edit a photo all you want without destroying the AI watermark. | Image: GoogleThe Google DeepMind team has believed for years that building great generative AI tools also requires building great tools to detect what has been created by AI. There are plenty of obvious, high-stakes reasons why, says Google DeepM…

Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you Next time you zone out in a meeting, Meet can help you catch up on what you missed. | Image: GoogleIf Google Meet’s new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all. At its Cloud Next conference today, Google revealed a handful of new AI-powered features coming soon t…

Snapchat is jumping on the AI selfie train with ‘Dreams’ Snapchat users will soon able to create their own Dreams in the Memories section of the app. | Image: SnapAfter releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams. Located in the camera roll section of Snapchat called Memories, Dreams are the company’s own take on t…

AI needs ‘human control’ to avoid being weaponized, says Microsoft’s president Microsoft president Brad Smith stressed on the need to have guardrails around artificial intelligence.

Poe’s new desktop app lets you use all the AI chatbots in one place Poe is now available on the web, iOS, Android, and the Mac. | Image: The VergePoe, the AI chatbot platform created by Quora, has added a slew of updates, including a Mac app, the ability to have multiple simultaneous conversations with the same AI bot, access to Meta’s Llama 2 model, and more. It’s also planning an enterprise tier so that compan…

AI users: any effective AI tools to alter faces to obscure identity? We thought again of this problem while reading posts about the necessity for preserving the privacy of people captured in images traveling, etc. Especially kids, or anyone that might be vulnerable should they be identified in that place at that time (photojournalists might face similar problems). It occured to us that rather than simply pixellat…

DoorDash’s voice ordering service could have AI take your carryout order Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeDoorDash is launching a new answering service for restaurants that could put you on the phone with AI when ordering takeout or delivery. With the new service, restaurants can have AI field phone calls and take orders from customers, with live agents available “to support customers at any time.” The answerin…

Google’s AI-powered note-taking app is the messy beginning of something great Illustration: The VergeWhat if you could have a conversation with your notes? That question has consumed a corner of the internet recently, as companies like Dropbox, Box, Notion, and others have built generative AI tools that let you interact with and create new things from the data you already have in their systems. Google’s version of this i…

Google On How Googlebot Handles AI Generated Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google’s Martin Splitt discusses AI Content in the context of quality control at the time of crawling and rendering The post Google On How Googlebot Handles AI Generated Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Content Creation In An AI World via @sejournal, @annabellenyst Learn what the industry thinks about the impact of generative AI on content creation and how you can use it to your advantage. The post Content Creation In An AI World appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Threads for web, AI for bookmarks, and the best new car tech Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 3, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. Thanks to everyone who sent stuff in this week — we’re starting to get the hang of how this all works, and I really hope it’s fun and useful! I know I’ve already downloaded a terrifying number of new apps thanks to y’all. Only one housekeeping thin…

Using AI to Decode Animal Communication with Aza Raskin submitted by /u/seltar

Switching from DIY/freelance product photography to an AI tool Hey folks, here’s a little story that store owners might get. A couple years back, I was deep into crafting ceramics, trying my hand at selling them on Shopify. But, let’s be real, I wasn’t exactly an ad guru. My product photos? Snapped on my trusty iPhone. Sales were decent, nothing to write home about. Then, I had this turning point. Decided t…

I Challenged AI to Create a Better YouTube Channel Than Me… Here’s What Happened submitted by /u/Chii

Why AI Isn’t as Good at Writing as You Think submitted by /u/GameOverture

Perplexity Announces AI Search Updates And Code Llama Chat via @sejournal, @kristileilani Explore the latest announcements from Perplexity including updates to AI-assisted search with GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and access to Code Llama, Meta’s open-source LLM for coding. The post Perplexity Announces AI Search Updates And Code Llama Chat appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Alibaba launches AI model that can understand images and have more complex conversations Alibaba’s artificial intelligence push is being driven by its cloud computing division which is looking to reignite growth as it prepares to go public.

Can news outlets build a ‘trustworthy’ AI chatbot? Illustration by Haein Jeong / The VergeNews publishers have jumped headfirst into artificial intelligence, using generative AI tools to produce bland travel guides, inaccurate film blogs, and SEO-bait explainers. By and large, the goal has been: can we make more pages for ads without paying more writers? Now, a group of tech outlets is attemptin…

Arm’s IPO will tell us how much AI hype matters AI hype or mobile reality? | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeI love a circus, and the Arm IPO is kinda looking like a P.T. Barnum production. As our ringmaster, we have SoftBank, the current majority owner of Arm. On the high wire, with no net, we have AI. Riding an elephant, we have mobile. And doing a contortion act, we have US-China re…