We may not have achieved artificial general intelligence, but we’ve gotten a step closer to assigning artificial intelligence the title of General. On Tuesday, the Department of Defense (referred to as the Department of War by the current administration) announced that it is launching an AI platform called GenAI.mil, which will allow members of the […]
It’s Code Red Week for OpenAI
If your Spidey senses tingled when Sam Altman got super defensive when one of his own supporters and investors gently asked where the company is getting the money to pay for its trillion-dollar commitments, then your whole body is probably vibrating right now. With Google Gemini eating into the company’s market share and interest in […]
Google Home Users Are Trying to Hack Their Way to a Better Voice Assistant
Like Tom Petty once said, “The waiting is the hardest part,” which is true in life and also, apparently, in your smart home. If a recent Reddit thread is anything to go off of, Google Home users are starting to get impatient waiting for Google’s new Gemini-powered smart home upgrade, Gemini for Home, which is […]
Marc Benioff Joins the Chorus, Says Google Gemini Is Eating ChatGPT’s Lunch
Despite its excessive spending on data centers with no clear path to revenue generation in front of it, it seemed that if OpenAI had just one thing it could count on, it was audience capture. ChatGPT seemed like it would get the brand verbification treatment, being the term people used to reference AI. Now it […]
Google Nest Cam Outdoor (2025) Review: Gemini Just Lied Too Much
The latest version of the Google Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 2nd gen)—yeah, that’s the name—is a real Jekyll and Hyde of a product. The hardware and software interface are expertly crafted and a delight to use. But once you start looking more closely at Google’s AI-forward security camera, it gets ugly and annoying. The $150 […]
Google’s Make-or-Break Moment for Smart Homes Starts Now
After nearly 10 years, Google’s smart home ecosystem is starting to look more than a little shabby. Not only has it been five years since Google last released a new smart speaker, but Google Assistant, the voice assistant that powers all of your voice computing, feels less effective than ever. That’s not just conjecture, either. […]
Some People Are Definitely Losing Their Jobs Because of AI (the Ones Building it)
AI might be coming for our jobs, but capitalist pressures appear to be coming for the people responsible for developing AI. Wired reported over 200 people working on Google’s AI products, including its chatbot Gemini and the AI Overviews it displays in search results, were recently laid off—joining the ranks of unfortunate former employees of […]
Google’s Big Leap Forward for Real-Time Translations Is Deepfaking Your Voice
The Pixel 10 makes Gemini-enabled deepfakes a pivotal feature of its new real-time translation features. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been promised the Next Big Thing in app-enabled translation. Since the dawn of Google Translate, it’s felt like tech companies (not just Google, but Samsung and Apple, too) have been teasing a […]
The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says
The world is hurtling towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very near future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, formerly known as Google X. “We will have to prepare for a world that is very unfamiliar,” Gawdat said in an interview on the “Diary of a CEO” […]
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
Artificial intelligence, very real vulnerabilities. Source link