Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study

Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates Google introduced its weather predicting artificial intelligence (AI) model GenCast on Wednesday. The AI model was developed by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s AI research division Google DeepMind. The company’s researchers have also published a paper on the technology highlighting its capabilities in…

Google’s Gemini AI Assistant Gains Utilities Extension With Ability to Control Smartphone Tasks

Google’s Gemini AI Assistant Gains Utilities Extension With Ability to Control Smartphone Tasks

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates Google’s Gemini AI assistant has finally been updated with a Utilities extension that allows it to control various tasks on a user’s smartphone. The Mountain View-based tech giant first announced this extension at its Google I/O event earlier this year. Utilities extension will let the…

OpenAI Sued by Canadian News Companies Over Alleged Copyright Breaches

OpenAI Sued by Canadian News Companies Over Alleged Copyright Breaches

Five Canadian news media companies filed a legal action on Friday against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing the artificial-intelligence company of regularly breaching copyright and online terms of use. The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and…

Elon Musk Says xAI Will Start an AI Game Studio ‘To Make Games Great Again’

Elon Musk Says xAI Will Start an AI Game Studio ‘To Make Games Great Again’

Elon Musk says his AI startup xAI will set up an artificial intelligence (AI) game studio. The world’s richest person made a cryptic post on X (formerly known as Twitter) highlighting his frustrations with a large number of game studios being owned by large corporations. This is not the first time…

Security Firm GoPlus Launches Web3-Focussed Extension on Chrome, Edge Browsers

Security Firm GoPlus Launches Web3-Focussed Extension on Chrome, Edge Browsers

Web3 security firm GoPlus has introduced a dedicated browser extension to enhance safety for the Web3 community. Based in the British Virgin Islands, the company has launched the GoPlus Security Extension, compatible with browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This move follows a surge in security breaches within the…

Alibaba Releases QwQ-32B Reasoning-Focused AI Model in Preview to Take on OpenAI’s GPT-o1

Alibaba Releases QwQ-32B Reasoning-Focused AI Model in Preview to Take on OpenAI’s GPT-o1

Alibaba released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday, which is said to rival OpenAI’s GPT-o1 series models in reasoning capability. Launched in preview, the QwQ-32B large language model (LLM) is said to outperform GPT-o1-preview in several mathematical and logical reasoning-related benchmarks. The new AI model is available to…

ElevenReader Updated With ‘GenFM’ AI Podcasts Feature to Compete With Google’s NotebookLM

ElevenReader Updated With ‘GenFM’ AI Podcasts Feature to Compete With Google’s NotebookLM

ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a new feature on its ElevenReader app that can generate instant podcast-like audio using artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed GenFM, the feature allows users to add any text or a YouTube video and convert it into a conversational podcast with two AI ‘hosts’ voicing insights and interesting…

Anthropic Introduces Custom Styles in Claude AI That Can Match Users’ Writing Style

Anthropic Introduces Custom Styles in Claude AI That Can Match Users’ Writing Style

Anthropic introduced a new feature in Claude on Tuesday that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to generate responses in users’ preferred writing style. Dubbed Custom Style, the new feature is aimed at the chatbot’s responses more in tune with how the user generally writes and prefers to read….

NASA Disasters Programme Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Aid Response Efforts

NASA Disasters Programme Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Aid Response Efforts

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and open science by NASA has been reported to significantly advance disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts. According to the space agency, NASA’s Disasters Program, supported by the agency’s commitment to open science, has been developing innovative tools and datasets to assist in managing…

Google Gemini Spotify Extension With Play and Search Functions Rolling Out

Google Gemini Spotify Extension With Play and Search Functions Rolling Out

Google Gemini is getting a new extension that will allow the app to play and search for songs from the Spotify app. The new feature will be supported by the Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on compatible Android devices. With this, users can link their Spotify account to their Google…