I Was Wrong About AI Girlfriends – including interviews with users of AI companions, creators of such apps and researchers submitted by /u/geeshta

Google’s AI Super Bowl ad is wrong about cheese Google just debuted a series of Super Bowl ads showing how small businesses use Gemini AI across all 50 states, but the cheese lovers out there might notice something a little off about its Wisconsin one. As spotted by @natejhake on X, the ad shows Gemini AI generating text that says Gouda accounts for “50

Nvidia says its new GPUs are the fastest for DeepSeek AI, which kind of misses the point Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.” But this announcement from Nvidia might be somewhat missing the point. This week, Nvidia’s market cap suffered the single bigges…

Elementor Rolls Out WordPress AI Site Planner via @sejournal, @martinibuster Elementor rolls out an intuitive AI site planner that streamlines website design from brief to visual layout The post Elementor Rolls Out WordPress AI Site Planner appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

AI Overviews Data Shows Massive Changes In Search Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Data shows significant expansion of AI Overviews to answer more complex queries and consolidation in trusted sources cited in its answers The post AI Overviews Data Shows Massive Changes In Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

This Chrome Extension Hides Google’s AI Junk Strip AI out of Google Search, and block those annoying “Ask Gemini” buttons for good.

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will AI Transform Teaching and Learning? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will AI Transform Teaching and Learning? Recently, I was invited to be part of a five member panel at Google to discuss the impact that AI will have on teaching and learning in schools. My fellow panelists were drawn from the technology sector. As a historian of schooling and vet…

AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence.  Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environm…

How DeepSeek crashed the AI party The DeepSeek story contains multitudes. It’s a story about the stock market, whether there’s an AI bubble, and how important Nvidia has become to so many people’s financial future. It’s also a story about China, export controls, and American AI dominance. And then, somewhere in there, there’s a story about technology: about how a start…

You.com Deploys USA-Hosted DeepSeek AI Model via @sejournal, @martinibuster AI Search Assistant You.com makes DeepSeek AI available to users, alongside the best models by Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI The post You.com Deploys USA-Hosted DeepSeek AI Model appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

LPT: How to bypass Google AI Overview I think this may violate rule 6, I hope it doesn’t because this will help people avoid using AI by default when they do not want to. https://tenbluelinks.org/ provides details on how to default away from AI Overview results for Google search term. This has a work around for Firefox and Chrome Mac/Windows, Chrome iOS, Chrome Android. Edit: I thin…

Google’s Gemini AI app is getting faster with Flash 2.0 Google announced Thursday that the Gemini app is getting its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model. The upgraded model “delivers fast responses and stronger performance across a number of key benchmarks, providing everyday help with tasks like brainstorming, learning or writing,” the company said in a post. The change is rolling out to Gemini’s web and

How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order Cheaper models will create both winners and losers

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Intel cancels AI chip, talks painful past and simplified future Last quarter, amid turmoil and restructuring, chipmaker Intel announced one of the largest corporate quarterly losses of all time — $16.6 billion, ten times worse than its $1.6B loss the quarter before. But in today’s Q4 2024 and full-year earnings release, Intel’s not hurting as badly: the company just announced a mere $126 million quarterly

Training an AI to exploit a Glitch in Trackmania submitted by /u/Highlow9

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy The rise of generative AI has been powered by Nvidia and its advanced GPUs. As demand far outstrips supply, the H100 has become highly sought after and extremely expensive, making Nvidia a trillion-dollar company for the first time. It’s also prompting customers, like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to start working on their own

Google Launches AI Phone Assistant To Call Businesses For You via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google launches AI-powered “Ask For Me” to make business calls, starting with auto repairs and nail salons. The post Google Launches AI Phone Assistant To Call Businesses For You appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google’s New ‘Ask for Me’ Search Feature Uses AI to Make Calls Google today started rolling out a new experimental “Ask for Me” feature that’s available as part of Search Labs. Google Search users can take advantage of AI to make calls to businesses for information like pricing and availability. As of now, Google is testing the experimental feature with auto shops and nail salons, and it is designed to pre…

Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ uses AI to call local businesses for you Google is trying out a new tool that lets AI call businesses to ask questions for you. The feature, called Ask for Me, collects information about the pricing and availability of a service, but it’s only available for nail salons and auto shops for now. Once you enable the experiment on Google Search Labs, you