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LPT: How to bypass Google AI Overview

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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…

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Google’s Gemini AI app is getting faster with Flash 2.0

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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

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Intel cancels AI chip, talks painful past and simplified future

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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

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Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy

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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

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Google’s New ‘Ask for Me’ Search Feature Uses AI to Make Calls

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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…

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Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ uses AI to call local businesses for you

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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

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Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional

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Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company’s doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia’s just-announced “Studio Voice” feature on his

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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race

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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking about the only thing the AI industry — and pretty much the entire tech world — has been able to talk about for the last week: that is, of course, DeepSeek, and how the open-source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom

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LPT: if you’re using TurboTax to file, double check the tax withholding. They’re now using AI and wildly inaccurate

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LPT: if you’re using TurboTax to file, double check the tax withholding. They’re now using AI and wildly inaccurate Fiancé passed away earlier this past year and was trying to do their taxes. After entering in all the info said the amount owed to IRS was over $2,000. At the time of passing he had made $17k at his job. After standard deduction, credits, etc. taxable income was around $3k. Reviewed the details, and it said the tax rate was 114.80% and powered …

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The Faraday Future FF91 Is Real And I Have Photographic Proof, I Swear This Isn’t AI

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The Faraday Future FF91 Is Real And I Have Photographic Proof, I Swear This Isn’t AI Many electric car startups have started up and then shut down over the past decade or so, some of which went under before producing even one car. Shockingly, Faraday Future, perhaps the most embattled and confusing startup of them all, is still kicking and has actually delivered a handful of its $309,000 FF91 luxury… Read more…

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Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts

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Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts Gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability is rolling out

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