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Google’s crappy “AI Overviews” regularly spits out incorrect answers — and now, apparently, it’s being entrusted with medical advice. In a self-congratulatory blog post, Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo claimed that “recent health-focused advancements on [sic] Gemini models” and “our best-in-class quality and ranking systems” will allow the janky feature to “cover thousands more […]
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OpenAI’s new API and Agents SDK consolidate a previously fragmented complex ecosystem into a unified, production-ready framework. For enterprise AI teams, the implications are potentially profound: Projects that previously demanded multiple frameworks, specialized vector databases, and complex orchestration logic can now be achieved through a single, standardized platform. But perhaps most revealing is OpenAI’s implicit […]
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Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The […]
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Content warning: this story discusses suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to suicide. As Futurism’s reporting found afterward, the behavior […]
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Sailing the high seas is supposed to be more fun than this.If you just watched someone play Mario & Luigi: Brothership for an hour or so, you might come away thinking it’s one of the best Switch games and/or RPGs of the year. Unfortunately, the game is much longer than an hour.Brothership, the latest in […]
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Google announced it will block ads about the general election on Nov. 5 after the last polls close. “As we’ve done in the past, we will temporarily pause ads related to U.S. elections after the last polls close on November 5,” Michael Aciman, Google spokesperson told The Hill. “We’re implementing this policy out of an… […]
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Most of the time, gas stations are just places you stop because you need to put more gas in your car. On a road trip, though, they’re also a convenient place to stretch your legs, go to the bathroom, regret attempting to drive so far in one day, refill your cooler with drinks and grab […]
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Google is making a strategic move that may transform digital advertising. The tech giant is poised to restructure its sales unit, primarily in response to the recent boom backed by AI and its growing dependence on AI for advertising. Google looks forward to enhancing customer interactions in ad purchases on platforms such as YouTube, Search, […]
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