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For a few years now, the Pixel A line has been one of the best deals in smartphones. It’s a budget take on an already low-priced product. It starts with a foundation of premium components, discovering ways to reduce cost without — hopefully — stripping too much of what made the premium product good in […] Google’s $499 Pixel 7a is on sale now by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google today introduced a new feature that combines Android’s guided customization with its advances in generative AI to help people compose more personal messages. The feature, called Magic Compose, was demoed briefly on stage this afternoon at the company’s I/O developer conference, showing how the feature could be used within messages and conversations to rewrite […] Google’s Magic Compose can rewrite your texts to be more playful, professional and more by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google said that WhatsApp is working on a native WearOS app at its developer conference Google IO. Earlier this week, WhatsApp launched a beta version of its app compatible with Google’s smartwatch platform. Folks using WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.23.10.10 will be able to link their Wear OS-based smartwatch. Users will be able to […] WhatsApp is working on a native app for Wear OS by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Shortly after last week’s joint announcement which saw Apple and Google teaming up on Bluetooth tracker safety measures and a new specification, Google today introduced a series of improvements coming to its own Find My Device network, including proactive alerts about unknown trackers traveling with you with support for Apple’s AirTag and others. The news, […] Google’s Find My Device network to warn about unknown AirTags with you by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Most U.S.-based tech investors are likely familiar with smaller-ticket investor marketplaces AngelList and Carta. In Europe, Germany’s Bunch and the UK’s Vauban (acquired by by US-based Carta last year) have attempted to do similar job. But the back-story to this is that although launching many years ago, AngelList struggled with Europe’s regulatory environment. UK Angel […] Could Odin be Europe’s answer to AngelList? by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →

To paraphrase Andreessen Horowitz, generative AI, particularly on the text-to-art side, is eating the world. At least, investors believe so — judging by the billions of dollars they’ve poured into startups developing AI that creates text and images from prompts. Not to be left behind, Big Tech is investing in its own generative AI art […] Google brings new generative models to Vertex AI, including Imagen by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

As we’ve seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it’s clear that these models take enormous amounts of compute power to train and run. Recognizing this, Google Cloud announced a new A3 supercomputer virtual machine today at Google I/O. The A3 has been purpose-built to handle the considerable demands […] Google Cloud announces new A3 supercomputer VMs built to power LLMs by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services, as well as AI-assisted coding in Google’s no-code AppSheet product. At the core of virtually all of these new […] Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google Search is experimenting with a new conversational mode that is powered by generative AI, the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference today. The company says the new experience helps you quickly find and make sense of information. The experience is integrated with Google Shopping and is designed to quickly connect users with […] Google is experimenting with a new AI-powered conversational mode in Search by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google’s going all-in on generative AI at its I/O developer conference today – so much so that it introduced a new tool called Sidekick that aims to help provide better prompts, potentially usurping the one thing people are supposed to be able to do best in the whole generative AI loop. You may have heard […] Google’s ‘Sidekick’ offers contextual prompts to get better results from AI by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google is taking its first steps toward combatting the potential for misinformation arising from AI-generated images. At its I/O developer event this afternoon, the company announced two new features coming to Google Search that aim to help people better understand the content and the context of the image they’re viewing in the search results. This […] Google introduces new features to help identify AI images in Search and elsewhere by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music. Available in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android or iOS, MusicLM lets users type in a prompt like “soulful jazz for a dinner party” and have the tool create several versions of the song. When Google […] Google makes its text-to-music AI public by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Generative AI seems to be the only thing Google wants to talk about at its I/O developer conference this year and unsurprisingly, one of the prime surfaces for highlighting its AI smarts is its Workspace productivity suite. Earlier this year, the company already launched limited previews of new features that help users write (and rewrite) […] Google brings more AI tools to Workspace by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

At Google I/O today, the company announced that it was removing most waitlist restrictions and making Bard, the company’s generative AI chatbot more widely available, starting today in English. The idea is to continue to work on the chatbot, but with a larger group of people In a blog post announcing the change, Sissie Hsiao, […] Google ends Bard waitlist, making English version of chatbot widely available by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is getting new generative AI capabilities courtesy of Adobe. Adobe announced today that Firefly, its recently introduced collection of AI models for generating media content, is coming to Bard alongside Adobe’s free graphic design tool, Adobe Express. Firefly — currently in public beta — will become the “premier generative […] Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

When Google launched its Bard AI-chatbot, it didn’t compare all that favorably to the likes of Bing Chat and ChatGPT. Indeed, the launch was a bit of a disaster, with a Google ad featuring a wrong answer by Bard briefly tanking the company’s stock by 8%. Today, at its I/O developer conference, Google is hoping […] Google launches a smarter Bard by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for all year: Google I/O keynote day! Google kicks off its developer conference each year with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it’s been working on. Brian already kicked us off by sharing what we are expecting. We know you don’t always have time […] Here’s everything Google has announced at I/O so far by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for understanding and generating multilingual text. Google claims that it’s a significant improvement over its predecessor and that it even bests OpenAI’s GPT-4, depending on the task at hand. But it’s far from a panacea. Absent some hands-on […] Google’s PaLM 2 paper shows that text-generating AI still has a long way to go by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function as the foundation model for most of the new AI features the company is announcing today. PaLM 2 is […] Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI for its tools like the distraction-removing Magic Eraser and corrective Photo Unblur features in Photos, it’s now turning to AI for more complex edits with the introduction of Magic Editor. The new […] Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →