Say Goodbye to the Google Assistant–Gemini Is Moving In by ulrischa

Google announced Friday that the Google Assistant is no longer for this world. The company plans to transition most Android devices to Gemini instead. This includes phones, tablets, devices that connect to your phone, headphones, and even the Assistant in the car. The only devices spared will be those limited to 2GB of RAM or

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Google Collab now provides native support for Julia by jonbaer

Julia is now available as a language in runtimes! In addition to providing easy access for the world to quickly begin programming in the awesome Julia language, since the first part of the Jupyter name itself is from the Julia language as the original triad of core supported languages (Julia (ju), Python (pyt) and R

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Why did we do the TPU at Google? by tosh

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Google to test using AI to determine users’ ages by mfiguiere

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai speaks during the tech titan’s annual I/O developers conference on May 14, 2024, in Mountain View, California. Glenn Chapman | Afp | Getty Images Google will start using artificial intelligence to determine whether users are age appropriate for its products, the company said Wednesday. Google announced the new technique for

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Initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord, others could transform trust and safety by CharlesW

Content Moderation How a new initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord and others could transform trust and safety (ROOST) Recently when I’ve written about efforts to make platforms safer, it has been in the context of those efforts seeming to fail. Starting in 2023, platforms laid off so many people working on safety that I wondered

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[Rant] Google: Making Users Do Engineers’ Work by hedayet

Want to use an AI API? Here’s the difference:OpenAI / DeepSeek:1. Generate an API key 2. Install OpenAI client 3. Add your key 4. Make API callsGoogle Gemini:1. Learn IAM (roles, permissions, service accounts…) 2. Grant access 3. Download key file / authenticate via CLI 4. Figure out which region supports your model (because not

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Does Google have customer support for pixel phones yet by bbarnett

I bought a pixel a 11 years ago. The hardware had bugs, which Google concealed and refused to admit existed. There was absolutely no way to contact anyone, no updates or fixes ever issued for the problem, essentially everyone was completely ignored like no company I had ever experienced before.It was impossible to even get

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Google Whitepaper on Agents by pajop

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Learning From Google SRE Team (part-2) by misoukrane

In our previous discussion, we covered the initial five lessons from the eleven lessons shared by Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, reflecting on their two decades of expertise.Today, we will explore the remaining six lessons from their post. Our aim is to expand upon each lesson, offering our insights and perspectives to enhance understanding.Additionally

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Google Workers Condemn Internal Culture of Hate, Abuse, and Retaliation by slim

Google workers and Bay Area community protest the Project Nimbus contract at the Google Cloud Next Conference in San Francisco on August 29, 2023.We are Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab Google employees joined by anti-Zionist Jewish colleagues. We cannot remain silent in the face of the hate, abuse, and retaliation that we are being subjected to

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