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Google has dreamed up a potential new way to get around resource constraints for energy-hungry AI data centers on Earth — launching its AI chips into space on solar-powered satellites. It’s a ‘moonshot’ research project Google announced today called Project Suncatcher.
For example, you can ask "find me 2 cheap tickets for the Shaboozey concert coming up. prefer standing floor tickets." AI Mode will then search across multiple websites to find real-time ticket options that meet your specific requests.
You might find yourself invited to try out AI Mode via a large pop-up dialog the next time you visit Google, but if not, you’ll now find an AI Mode button to the right of the search box on the Google homepage. Click this to enter the AI mode interface, which invites you to “ask detailed questions for detailed responses”.
It looks like Apple finally has a plan for its long-awaited Siri overhaul. According to reporting from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company’s next-generation digital assistant will be powered by Google’s Gemini AI.
Even when AI Overviews don’t appear, users are simply clicking less everywhere, with Google CTRs hitting new lows across search.
People Inc., one of the largest media publishers in the U.S., has signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft. The media giant (formerly known as Dotdash Meredith) made the announcement Tuesday as a part of parent company IAC’s third-quarter earnings.
Google’s Gemini for Home system, recently integrated with Nest Cams and other devices, is already drawing attention. Though, not for its slick smart-home control but for mis-identifications like mistaking a dog for a deer and detecting fake people.
IAC’s media brands include instantly recognizable names such as People magazine, and its advertising side got hurt in part because of Google AI Overviews.
Google search and ChatGPT are great for sorting through the masses of publicly available information on the internet. But for law firms, that’s only so helpful. That’s why multiple former Googlers have started a legal tech company that helps lawyers search through and find confidential material within their firms’ archives.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) has been the odd one out in the Magnificent Seven for a while. The stock didn’t make parabolic gains, whereas most other AI stocks were on a rally that was truly deserving of the “Magnificent” title.