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Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars.
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the…
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the news in a post on X Tuesday evening. “This…
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. The NS-25…
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap…
AI
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
2 hours ago
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer.
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
Where we’ll be next
Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
Jun 11th
StrictlyVC – Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
May 21st
StrictlyVC – London
London
LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google’s Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
Transportation
Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say
5 hours ago
Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported…
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
Apps
Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools
6 hours ago
Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.
AI
Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more
6 hours ago
Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.
Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage.
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.
The summaries are created based on Gemini’s analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
