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  Google Chrome for iOS Receives Shopping Insights, Other New Features

  Google Chrome for iOS has rolled out several new features that aim to make finding information and completing tasks easier. The web browser now lets iPhone users add text queries to visual searches via Google Lens for more helpful and relevant results. It also introduces new ways to save space on iPhone, find better deals while shopping online, and...

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  YouTube Partners With Flipkart and Myntra to Launch YouTube Shopping in India

  YouTube Shopping has been launched in India, as the company looks to expand monetisation options for video creators in the country. Eligible creators can tag brands in their content and earn commissions when customers make purchases. The YouTube Shopping affiliate marketing program will collaborate with Flipkart and Myntra at launch.

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  Google DeepMind SynthID AI Watermarking Technology Open-Sourced to Businesses and Developers

  Google DeepMind open-sourced a new technology to watermark AI-generated text on Wednesday. Dubbed SynthID, the artificial intelligence (AI) watermarking tool can be used across different modalities including text, images, videos, and audio. However, currently, it is only offering the text watermarking tool to businesses and developers. The company ...

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  Google Messages Rolls Out Sensitive Content Warning, Enhanced Spam Detection and More Features

  Google Messages is rolling out several new features aimed at improving user privacy and protecting them from suspicious calls and messages. One of the additions is protection against scam texts related to package deliveries and jobs, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) models. There are also features related to handling international callers an...

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  Google Says It Will Stop Linking to New Zealand News if Proposed New Law Is Passed

  Google said it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles if the government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds.

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  Gemini in Gmail App Adds Contextual Smart Replies Feature for Google Workspace Users

  Gemini in the Gmail app is getting a new feature which will let users quickly respond to emails with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed contextual smart replies, the feature allows users to respond to incoming emails with detailed replies. The AI can process the content of the email and contextually generate a reply. Notably, the sma...

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  YouTube Introduces Conversational AI Feature to Premium Subscribers Using Android Devices

  YouTube is now rolling out a new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) feature to users. On Tuesday, the company announced that the new tool, which will let users ask queries about the content of a specific video, is being expanded to YouTube Premium subscribers in the US. Earlier, this feature was available in beta, but now more users can in...

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  Google TV Devices Updated With Smart Home Hub, AI-Powered Sports Page and Content Overviews

  Google TV is getting a new update which adds several new features to all the existing devices as well as the recently launched Google TV Streamer. The update comes just days after the Mountain View-based tech giant rolled out the security update for Chromecast with Google TV. With this, Google TV users will see a new home panel that acts as the cen...

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  Google to Introduce C2PA Content Credentials to Help Users Identify AI-Generated Images

  Google announced on Tuesday that there were new ways for users to find out whether an image was created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While the tech giant has been working on developing internal tools to watermark AI-generated content, it also joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committ...

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  Google Rolls Out App Access Risk Feature to Keep Users Safe From Dangerous Apps: Report

  Google has introduced a new feature for developers to safeguard user data against risky applications that may capture a user's screen content or control device actions, prompting the user to close such apps.

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  Instead of a Threat, Canva Sees AI as a Tailwind, Says Co-Founder Cameron Adams

  Gadgets 360 spoke with Cameron Adams, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva to better understand the intricacies of the design world, how the companies look at AI, and what is the larger vision behind it. Founded in 2013, the Sydney-based graphic designing platform has recently integrated a wide range of AI tools and launched a major enterp...

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  Gemini ‘Ask About This Screen’ and YouTube Video Summaries Features Rolling Out to Users

  Gemini for Android is getting two new features that will allow users to ask questions about their smartphone’s current screen. Dubbed ‘Ask about this screen’ and ‘Ask about this video’, these tools capture a screenshot and process the content of the screen. Then, when prompted by the user, it can answer any information the user is seeking...

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  Elon Musks Grok Is A Risky Experiment In AI Content Moderation

  Musk has been a champion of AI without much intervention, vocally criticizing tools from OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google as too "woke."

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  Reddit Announces Plans for Testing AI-Powered Summaries for Search Result Pages

  Reddit will begin testing summaries generated using artificial intelligence (AI) for content, the company announced during its earnings call with investors on Tuesday. The AI-powered summaries will appear at the top of the search result pages. Courtesy of this feature, Reddit aims to help users “dive deeper” into the platform’s content, inclu...

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  Google Search Updates Content Removal and Ranking System to Combat Explicit Deepfakes

  Google Search updated its removal processes and ranking systems on Wednesday to combat non-consensual fake explicit imagery, also known as deepfakes. The tech giant’s new strategy involves quickly removing explicit deepfakes and demoting websites that host such content so that this type of content does not appear high up in Search results.