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Google’s AI ‘Ask Photos’ Feature May Actually Be Usable Now
Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature was announced last year, but failed to make a splash when it started rolling out to the public. It replaced the regular photo search feature with a Gemini AI search that, often, took too much time when you just wanted to find photos of your pets, or your car. This was such an issue that…
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Google’s Doppl app took off my socks
I just tried on five different outfits in about 10 minutes — or at least my AI lookalike did. That’s all thanks to Doppl, a new app that Google is testing, which I used to create AI-generated clips of myself wearing outfits that I found across the web. It mostly works, but it has clear issues putting pants on photos…
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Verizon turns to Google’s Gemini AI to solve ‘complex’ customer issues
Verizon is trying to streamline its customer service experience by overhauling it with more chatbots and AI tools. The My Verizon app is being relaunched today with a new “AI-powered Verizon Assistant” that aims to help consumers “manage upgrades, add new lines, ask billing questions, take advantage of savings, and more,” according to the telecom giant’s announcement. The idea is…
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I Tried Google’s Conversation Feature for AI Mode, and I’m Not Sure Who It’s For
If you’ve spent any time googling over the past month or so, you might have noticed Google pushing a brand-new feature: AI Mode. AI Mode essentially brings an AI chatbot web search to Google Search. (If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or Gemini to look something up, you might be familiar.) AI Mode takes your query and performs multiple searches at once,…
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Google’s Veo 3 video model is now live in Canva — here’s how to try it
Google’s latest AI video model, Veo 3 (that’s the one with audio) is now available inside Canva — giving creators of all levels a simple way to generate high-quality video clips from a text prompt. The new feature, called Create a Video Clip, is now live for Canva Pro ($15/month or $120/year per person), Teams, Enterprise and Nonprofit users. The…
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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews on the first page of search results on mobile. The experiment, which you can enable in Labs, will let you generate an AI podcast-style discussion for certain queries. If you search for something like, “How do noise cancellation headphones work?”, Google will display a button beneath the “People…
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Google’s New AI Tool Can Give You Life Advice with an Expert Touch
Google has been experimenting with some pretty quirky and fun AI ideas lately, and their latest innovation brings the author of Radical Candor, Kim Scott, to your phone, ready to guide you through your life’s problems with a new AI feature called Portraits. Portraits is a conversational AI model that is made in collaboration with experts, as announced in Google’s…
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Google’s upcoming Gemini Kingfall is allegedly a coding beast
Google’s AI advancement is not slowing down, and we might be getting yet another powerful model codenamed “Gemini Kingfall.” As spotted by users on X, Gemini Kingfall briefly appeared on AI Studio for approximately 20 minutes before it was taken down. Gemini Kingfall While the details aren’t available, Gemini Kingfall doesn’t appear to be an update to the existing Gemini…
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Google’s “Ask Photos” AI Feature Paused After Complaints
Summary Google paused ‘Ask Photos’ rollout due to latency, quality, and UX issues. Conversational search powered by Gemini AI faced bumps along the way. Improved ‘Ask Photos’ version expected to ship in two weeks. AI is currently being jammed into everything, but there are some places where it makes more sense than others. Google was testing a feature in Google…
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Google’s Co-Founder Says AI Performs Best When You Threaten It
Artificial intelligence continues to be the thing in tech—whether consumers are interested or not. What strikes me most about generative AI isn’t its features or potential to make my life easier (a potential I have yet to realize); rather, I’m focused these days on the many threats that seem to be rising from this technology. There’s misinformation, for sure—new AI…
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