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MarkTechPostabout 4 hours ago

Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: 15-Second AI Video at $0.07 per Second

Google has released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the newest version of its video generation and editing model. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generates and edits clips up to 15 seconds natively. It also cuts the price by 30% compared with Omni 1.1 Flash. The model is generally available on Google Cloud and the Gemini API. For developers, the takeaways are longer clips, fewer re-renders and a lower bill per second. TL;DR Runs on: Google-hosted only...

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Ars Technicaabout 6 hours ago

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google faced the ire of educators and parents earlier this week when it announced a new AI policy for K–12 schools. Google said that it developed its new approach to give schools more control, but early reporting also suggested Google would block search access for schools that didn't want to use AI. Google didn't see the backlash coming, but now that it's here, the search giant is clarifying what exactly its new policy means and what's...

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Engadgetabout 7 hours ago

Google is ditching Firebase Studio soon, and it wants you to use its newer AI tools instead

# Google is ditching Firebase Studio soon, and it wants you to use its newer AI tools instead The company is going all-in on Antigravity and Google AI Studio. In March, Google announced it was "sunsetting" Firebase Studio, its online integrated development environment (IDE), in favor of coding tools that put AI at the center. The company's preference for Antigravity and Google AI Studio serves its broader push around Gemini, but it also...

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ZDNetabout 9 hours ago

6 default Pixel 11 settings I changed that made a big difference – and why

### ZDNET’s key takeaways - The Pixel 11 series has several useful features off by default. - You can improve your phone’s display and its charging speed. - Some settings require customization. I’ve been a dedicated Pixel user since the beginning, so I was naturally excited to get my hands on Google’s latest iteration, the Pixel 11 Pro XL. I’ve been impressed with it overall, but I noticed that, as Google has done before, the device isn’t...

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Nvidia Blogabout 11 hours ago

The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models

Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it. “We should be shouting about this technology from the rooftops,” said Alexiuk, a Toronto-based senior product research engineer in deep learning at NVIDIA who specializes in making open large language models (LLMs) practical for working developers. Alexiuk’s preferred “rooftop” is YouTube, where he’s built a following teaching curious thousands how...

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VNExpress Số Hóaabout 15 hours ago

Google: Vietnam has 45 million artificial intelligence users

# Google: Vietnam has 45 million artificial intelligence users Vietnam has a digital economic scale expected to reach 49 billion USD, the highest growth in Southeast Asia, and has 45 million AI users. The e-Conomy SEA annual report for the Vietnamese market conducted by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company and published on November 5 shows that Vietnam is considered to lead Southeast Asia in many aspects, such as the growth of the digital...

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Wiredabout 18 hours ago

Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’

The Large Hadron Collider has been slamming protons together for years. But recently, a proton collision produced an improbable result that is the first step toward exploring the so-called “zeptoverse”—a scale of reality many, many times smaller than an atom. This would be the smallest scale of the physical world ever explored and may defy our expectations of how physics works. While crashing protons together at nearly the speed of light,...

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GenKabout 20 hours ago

Paradox at Apple: Promoting employees to use AI, but cutting the budget from 300 USD to 100 USD/day

**Not only Apple, many other technology giants such as Microsoft or Tesla are also cutting their employees' AI budgets.** Apple is encouraging employees to bring artificial intelligence (AI) deeper into their work, from programming to internal operations. But at the same time, the company has begun to tighten the amount of money employees are allowed to spend on these tools, as AI costs increasingly become an issue that needs to be...

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MarkTechPostabout 21 hours ago

Google AI Research Releases Agile Deliberation Framework for Gray-Area Image Classifiers

Google Research has released Agile Deliberation, a human-in-the-loop framework for building image classifiers around subjective concepts. Think ‘healthy food’, ‘inspiring artwork’ or clickbait in content moderation. Most tooling assumes users already know the concept boundary. Agile Deliberation assumes they do not, and helps them find it. TL;DR Framework: It prompts Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash through the API, without fine-tuning....

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Wired AI1 day ago

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

Two weeks ago, an IT administrator for an elementary-middle school took to Google’s support forums requesting a way to block students from seeing AI Overviews—the chatbot-generated answers at the top of search results. “This seems counterproductive to what we're trying to teach,” the administrator wrote. “Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and draw their own conclusions rather than being handed an...

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TechCrunch AI1 day ago

DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy

DuckDuckGo is pitching itself to schools after Google created an opening for the alternative search engine. On Tuesday, Google told schools they could turn off Gemini, but it said shutting off its other AI features would cost schools Google Search, as well. DuckDuckGo, a company that focuses on user privacy by limiting data collection, clearly sees this as a moment to make inroads in education, where Google has historically dominated....

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AWS Machine Learning Blog1 day ago

Use decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

Some of the questions you ask when evaluating an agent are narrow and repeatable. Did this response stay on policy? Is this tool call safe to approve? Does this answer match the retrieved context? Decision models answer exactly that kind of question. They take a structured state and a fixed set of allowed answers and return a calibrated probability over them, rather than free-form text whose confidence drifts from run to run. That makes them...

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SiliconANGLE1 day ago

Smartsheet AI-powered platform bridges gap between planning and results

### Smartsheet AI-powered platform bridges gap between planning and results Smartsheet Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence-powered planning and execution platform designed to help enterprises identify when projects are veering off course and take corrective action before delays and cost overruns become serious problems. Announced at the company’s Engage 2026 conference, the new vsActual platform — pronounced “versus actual” —...

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AWS Machine Learning Blog1 day ago

How Indegene is modernizing and scaling enterprise data quality in life sciences

This post is co-written with Shravan K S from Indegene Limited. Enterprise AI is creating new opportunities for life sciences organizations to improve decision-making across commercial, medical, market access, and other business functions. But the quality of every AI model, dashboard, and business insight depends on one thing: trusted data. As enterprise data grows across multiple platforms, pipelines, and business domains, maintaining...

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ZDNet1 day ago

Can Netflix’s new AI tool stop your TV-streaming doomscrolling? How to try it

### ZDNET’s key takeaways - Netflix is adding a new AI-powered feature to recommend titles. - AI Discover will be a new tab in the Netflix app, located at the top of your TV screen. - You can pick a theme or dive into more specific wants to find matches. AI tools are all over the internet, in the workplace, in your apps — and now there’s one coming on Netflix. The streaming giant just announced a new AI feature for the TV app called AI...

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TechCrunch1 day ago

Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI

Google was met with swift backlash on Tuesday after it announced that schools using Google’s K-12 software will not be able to use Search unless they opt in to using AI tools. Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google, told The New York Times that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” so if a student’s school doesn’t opt in to using AI tools like Gemini, then students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message...

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TechCrunch1 day ago

Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth

Design software maker Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, amounting to 1,271 people, amid a growth slowdown. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Melanie Perkins, in a note to employees said while Canva has scaled so far, it needs to change to address slowing growth. “Over the past thirteen years, we’ve turned a dream in a pitch deck into a platform used by hundreds of millions of people. None of it would have been possible without the talent,...

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Tuổi Trẻ Nhịp Sống Số2 days ago

Google tells schools to turn off AI, students may lose Google Search

According to CNN, Google announced on November 3 that artificial intelligence (AI) integration tools will be turned off by default on student accounts and will only be turned on when the school allows it. This is a change from the policy in August, when Google automatically enabled Gemini in the Google Classroom app. Google said this decision comes from the wishes of teachers and educational administrators, to help schools be more proactive...

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The Verge2 days ago

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have returned to their lowest price to date

Android owners looking for an earbud upgrade are in luck. The Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 are back down to $169 at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store, matching the lowest price we’ve seen. Google’s site claims the deal will last until 11:59PM PT on November 8th, and other retailers will likely follow suit. Some colors are already sold out, however, so it’s worth checking multiple retailers if you don’t see your preferred option. Google Pixel...

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Ars Technica2 days ago

Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too

While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks, the ubiquity of these devices has made the company's education products huge in schools. Now, Google says it will let educators choose whether to allow its AI tools in the classroom. However, blocking AI tools also means giving up search, leaving schools with a difficult decision. Google's new overarching approach to AI in K-12 classrooms sounds good on the surface. After consulting...

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The Verge2 days ago

Google’s Gemini-powered Home Speaker is already on sale for 20 percent off

We’re big fans of the Google Home Speaker’s design. | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re looking for a good smart speaker, the Google Home Speaker is down to around $79 ($20 off) in all four colors at Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. That’s the best price we’ve seen for the Gemini-powered speaker, which launched in June and represents Google’s first smart speaker in several years. Google Home Speaker Where to Buy: $99.99...

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AWS Machine Learning Blog2 days ago

Building ultra-low-latency voice AI applications on AWS

Conversational AI is transforming how humans interact with technology. From virtual assistants and AI-powered contact centers to real-time translation and accessibility tools, voice-first interfaces are rapidly becoming the default mode of interaction for millions of users worldwide. Yet delivering a truly natural voice experience remains one of the hardest challenges in AI infrastructure. Users expect human-like responsiveness. Excess...

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The Verge Tech2 days ago

Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI

Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told *The New York Times*. The decision was also shared in a broader education-related update from Google on Tuesday, saying that access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search “will be entirely off” for K-12 student accounts unless “administrators explicitly turn them on.” # Google is entirely disabling Search in schools...

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TechCrunch2 days ago

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to disable AI tools for K-12 students next year unless school administrators explicitly turn them on. The tech giant says the change follows consultations with schools, teachers, leading researchers, and policymakers. As a result, Google is revising its approach across Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. The decision means that schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will...

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