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You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results
- Google is expanding its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0.
- AI Overviews will be shown on more results pages, including for users without accounts.
- Google's AI Mode, powered by Gemini, completely takes over the search results.
- This is just the beginning of Google's plans for AI search.
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Google Unveils Expanded AI Overviews and Experimental AI Mode
- Google has launched expanded AI Overviews and experimental AI Mode.
- The revamped AI Overviews provide faster and higher quality responses, with more frequent usage and availability for teens without needing to sign in.
- The experimental AI Mode uses a custom version of Gemini 2.0, enabling nuanced questions, follow-up answers, and relevant web links.
- AI Mode is initially available to Google One AI Premium subscribers on invitation.
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Google’s AI-Powered Shopping Tools Personalize Style and Beauty
- Google introduced new immersive shopping features designed to enhance how consumers shop for fashion and beauty products.
- Vision Match allows users to describe any garment and AI image generation will display product ideas that match the description.
- Google is expanding virtual beauty features to help users try out makeup looks before buying using Gemini models and augmented reality (AR).
- Google's AI-powered features offer a level of personalization that allows users to better visualize and select products that align with their style.
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Common media processing operations with Jetpack Media3 Transformer
- Android users are increasingly interested in creating, editing, and sharing video content, leading to a demand for efficient media processing tools on Android apps.
- Jetpack Media3 Transformer APIs provide native solutions for media editing, offering fast performance, customizability, and device compatibility.
- To use Transformer, developers create MediaItem instances, apply edits with EditedMediaItem, configure Transformer settings, and export the edited video.
- Key editing operations with Transformer include transcoding, trimming, muting audio, and resizing video, each illustrated with code snippets and corresponding FFmpeg commands.
- Benchmarking measurements for Transformer operations like transcoding, trimming, muting, and resizing show performance results on different video formats and their processing times on a Pixel 9 Pro XL device.
- Transformer prioritizes transmuxing for basic video edits when possible to ensure faster processing times and high-quality output, falling back to transcoding for more complex operations.
- Advanced optimizations like the experimentalSetTrimOptimizationEnabled setting improve efficiency during trimming by re-encoding only essential parts of the video, enhancing encoding latency and performance.
- Transformer documentation provides comprehensive guidance for integration and customization, enabling developers to optimize their media editing workflows for improved app performance.
- By leveraging Jetpack Media3 Transformer, developers can streamline media processing tasks, enhance user experiences, and achieve better performance in their Android apps.
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Google is turning Search into a personal stylist with new fashion and beauty tools
- Google Search now lets US mobile users describe a fashion item they have in mind, generates AI images, and suggests similar products available for purchase.
- An updated AR beauty tool will allow users to virtually try on multiple makeup products inspired by celebrity looks and beauty trends.
- Google’s expanded virtual try-on tool for clothing, available on mobile and desktop, now supports more products and model sizes.
- Google introduces a feature called 'vision match' that helps users turn their fashion ideas into reality by generating AI-created images and suggesting similar styles available for purchase.
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Google tells Trump’s DOJ that forcing a Chrome sale would harm national security
- Google's lawyers have met with representatives from the US Department of Justice in an attempt to avoid a breakup amid antitrust scrutiny.
- Google argues that forcing the company to spin off parts of the business and limit investments would pose a national security threat.
- The US Department of Justice sought stiff penalties in the previous antitrust case, including the sale of Google's Chrome browser and an end to search engine placement payments.
- Google believes that requiring the spin-off of Chrome and restricting AI investments could harm both US national security and user-level security.
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Google upgrades AI Overviews and debuts new AI Mode for Search
- Google announced a substantial upgrade for AI Overviews as well as a new AI Mode for Search.
- AI Overviews in the US now use Gemini 2.0 and can answer coding, advanced math, and multimodal questions.
- Google's AI Mode in Search Labs combines advanced AI with detailed information systems to answer complex questions.
- AI Mode is an experiment and provides visual responses, richer formatting, and plans to be available for Google One AI Premium subscribers.
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YouTube Premium Lite arrives in the US, but it’s a tad too light on benefits
- YouTube Premium Lite is now available in the US, offering a cheaper subscription option with fewer benefits.
- The Lite version costs $7.99 per month, compared to the $13.99 fee for the standard plan.
- While most videos will be ad-free, certain segments like shorts and music content will still have ads.
- YouTube Premium Lite lacks offline downloads and background play, making it less convenient for users.
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Pixel Watch’s March Update is Wear OS 5.1
- Google's March update for the Pixel Watch line brings the devices up to Wear OS 5.1.
- The update upgrades the Pixel Watch line from Android 14 to Android 15 at the API level.
- The update will roll out in phases over the next few weeks for Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Watch 3's Bluetooth/WiFi models.
- Wear OS 5.1 brings features like Credential Manager support and watch speaker playback.
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Google Search Gets Even More AI, Including an AI Mode
- Google Search is expanding its AI capabilities with the launch of Gemini 2.0.
- Gemini 2.0 will provide AI overviews to answer harder questions involving math, coding, and multimodal queries.
- Teens can now access AI overviews on Google Search without needing to be signed in.
- Google is running an experiment in Labs to offer AI Mode for power users to get AI-powered responses and follow-up questions.
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Google's new AI Mode is a huge leap away from Search as we know it
- Google plans to test a new 'AI Mode' for Search that generates an entire page of AI-generated results in response to user queries.
- The 'AI Mode' tab will be placed at the top of the Google Search page, providing a wider and more diverse set of results than AI Overviews.
- AI Mode utilizes a custom version of the Gemini 2.0 model, offering reasoning and multimodal AI to generate comprehensive responses to nuanced queries.
- Google is infusing AI into its major products, and AI Mode provides a glimpse into the future of how Google's search engine may work.
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Google is adding more AI Overviews and a new ‘AI Mode’ to Search
- Google is expanding AI Overviews to show AI-generated information for more types of queries.
- Google is testing a new feature called AI Mode, which is a search-centric chatbot.
- AI Mode generates answers based on Google's search index, providing a more interactive and real-time experience.
- Google's focus on AI-generated content signals the increasing importance of AI in search and its ability to handle complex questions.
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Forrester study reveals significant benefits and cost savings with Spanner
- A Forrester study reveals the benefits and cost savings organizations can achieve by deploying Spanner, Google Cloud's multi-model database with virtually unlimited scale.
- Legacy database systems can hinder innovation due to rising costs, downtime, and scalability challenges.
- Forrester's Total Economic Impact study shows that organizations can realize an ROI of 132% over three years by using Spanner.
- Benefits include multi-million-dollar cost savings, improved reliability, and operational efficiencies.
- Legacy databases often entail high maintenance costs, specialized expertise requirements, and limited scalability.
- Spanner helps organizations save costs by retiring legacy databases, reducing infrastructure expenditure, and achieving up to 99.999% availability.
- Organizations adopting Spanner experienced zero failures caused by Spanner, resulting in significant cost savings and profit retention.
- Spanner's elastic scalability reduces overprovisioning costs and accelerates the onboarding of new applications, leading to overall cost savings for organizations.
- Additional benefits of using Spanner include improved budget predictability, greater deployment flexibility, expert customer service, and an innovation-friendly architecture.
- Spanner is not just a database but a catalyst for business transformation, enabling organizations to achieve cost savings, operational efficiencies, and innovation.
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How Google AI is powering innovation at NARA, Air Force, and Aerospace Corporation
- Google AI and machine learning are reshaping day-to-day operations in the federal government, delivering results and serving the public good.
- The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) incorporated Google Cloud's AI-powered semantic search to simplify public access to billions of federal documents.
- The Aerospace Corporation partnered with Google to improve space weather forecasting using AI and machine learning, safeguarding critical infrastructure and national security.
- The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) integrated AI and machine learning into key areas of research, accelerating performance and aligning with Department of Defense initiatives.
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