IBM CEO: rationing AI is a slow way to lose
Fortune — Running AI now costs more than training it.
Google develops the Gemini family of AI models, the Android operating system, and tensor processing units used to train machine learning systems. Truncated covers its product releases, infrastructure announcements, research papers, partnerships, regulatory scrutiny, and financial results.
Google puts new limits on AI agents that hunt threats and fix vulnerabilities
Help Net Security — Google Cloud expands CodeMender and Wiz integrations with controls for AI agents, cloud workloads, and automated threat responses.
Android Auto’s endless calling loop is driving Pixel and Galaxy owners crazy
Android Authority — Pixel and Galaxy owners say Android Auto keeps asking who to call or text, even after recognizing their contacts.
Hyperscalers and Apple surge after election results remove investor uncertainty
CNBC — Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft stock was up after the midterms, while stocks tied to Trump advisor Elon Musk and data centers fell on Wednesday.
Red teams, wrong targets and a $115bn bet on optics
The Stack — Welcome to CTRL: Alt Cloud, a new newsletter from The Stack diving into the Wild West of alternative clouds, the workloads they keep running, and the silicon they run on… This week the hyperscalers have proven the AI buildout is not going anywhere, with Google and Microsoft reporting barn-storming
Ai2 gets $5M from Google to turn AI weather model into a tool for projecting climate change
GeekWire — Google is giving the Allen Institute for AI about $5 million, plus $1.8 million in cloud credits, to turn NeuralGCM, a Google AI weather model, into an open-source tool for projecting climate change over the next five to 50 years. Ai2 plans to add the ocean to the model, work on making it reliable in a warmer world and release the code for training it.
Snapped a photo of an event poster? Google Photos could soon add it to your calendar
Android Authority — Google Photos v8.0 hints at a new Ask Photos feature that lets you create calendar events directly from photographed posters and flyers.
Google Photos could finally learn to do your photo chores
Android Authority — Google Photos' Ask Photos feature could evolve into an AI-driven task engine that can edit photos, create albums, automate chores, and more.
Fake AI Nudes Target 1 In 14 Adults, Survey Finds
StudyFinds — Roughly 1 in 14 adults in three countries say someone used AI to make a fake nude of them. Here is how victims responded.
Don't want Google using your Gmail or Photos info for ads? Here's how to stop it
Android Authority — Google updated its policy with an ad-targeting exception for your Gmail and Photos data, and you might not like it.
Google expands AI-powered shopping and direct checkout to Canadian consumers
Retail Insider — Google is bringing AI-powered shopping and direct checkout to Canada through partnerships with lululemon, Shopify, Shoppers Drug Mart and Simons, with broader retailer access planned for 2027.
Google unveils $15 billion data center investment in Malaysia
Tech Xplore — Google announced plans on Wednesday to invest $15 billion in Malaysia over the next two years to build data centers and other infrastructure as demand booms for artificial intelligence services.
The internet is ‘dying’: AI is eating it and obliterating these business models
Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
TechCrunch — Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
Introducing Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam for agents
Google Cloud Blog — Discover PLE, a new benchmark evaluating frontier AI agents on real-world mechanical, electrical, civil, and structural engineering tasks.
Here's Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Vote
WIRED — From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
ChatGPT advertising delivers more than 6 times less value for money than Google Ads
Tech Xplore — Advertising on ChatGPT has so far proven significantly less cost-effective for businesses than advertising on Google. This is the finding of a new study by Christian Schulze, associate professor of marketing at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, and Maximilian Kaiser, assistant professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna).
Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model
Google — Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
Big four hyperscalers raising more that $131 billion in debt and equity for AI buildout
datacenterdynamics.com — Amazon alone discloses $80bn loan facility
Tech stocks are crashing. Will AI kill my ISA and pension?
The Independent — Google, Intel and AMD are among the big-name firms to have seen their share prices plummet over the past week
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