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  Google Expands AI-Based Flood Forecasting Coverage to 100 Countries, Improves Forecasting Model

  Google announced the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) flood forecasting system on Monday. With this expansion, the Mountain View-based tech giant will now cover 100 countries and offer riverine flood forecasting to a global population of 700 million people. The company is also offering researchers and partners a new application program...

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  Google DeepMind Open Sources AlphaFold 3 AI Model to Help Researchers in Drug Discovery

  Google DeepMind has silently open-sourced its frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict the interaction between proteins and other molecules. Dubbed AlphaFold 3, the large language model is the successor of AlphaFold 2, whose research led to the creators of the large language model (LLM) Demis Hassabis and John Jumper getting the...

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  Here's How A PhD Student Discovered Long-Lost Maya City While Browsing Google

  The breakthrough came by accident when a researcher browsing Google found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring.

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  Google Adds Gemini Team to DeepMind in AI Streamlining Push

  Google is moving the team behind its Gemini AI assistant app to its DeepMind research lab. Over the last six months, Google has been consolidating its AI-focused teams, seeking to improve the Gemini models to challenge the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

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  Google’s 67-Qubit Sycamore Quantum Computer Could Beat Top Supercomputers: Study

  A new study reveals that Google’s 67-qubit Sycamore quantum processor can outperform the fastest classical supercomputers. Researchers discovered a “weak noise phase” in which quantum computers execute complex calculations more efficiently. This breakthrough represents a crucial step towards developing practical applications that cannot be ac...

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  Physics, Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners' Google Links Stir Debate Over AI Research

  The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of AI pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company's research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised.

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  Crypto Wallet Drainer App Identified on Google Play Store, Report Suggests $70,000 Stolen

  A report from Check Point Research (CPR) reveals that a malicious app used "advanced evasion techniques" to steal $70,000 (roughly Rs. 58.6 lakh) over five months from users interacting with the platform. After analysing its JavaScript code, the app has been named "MS Drainer."

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  Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report

  Google re-hired its long-time researcher, Naom Shazeer, to co-lead its AI models in a $2.7 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr Shazeer quit Google in 2021 after being a part of the company for 21 years.

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  Google NotebookLM Upgraded to Support YouTube Videos and Audio Files as Sources

  Google’s NotebookLM, the artificial intelligence (AI) note-taking and research assistant platform, received a new update on Thursday. The update expanded the platform’s functionality and now users can add a YouTube video or an audio file as a source, and ask the AI queries about it. The platform is also improving the shareability of Audio Overv...

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  Google Cloud, Research Units Collaborate to Speed AI Development

  Collaboration between Google Cloud and the company’s research arm, Google DeepMind, can help accelerate product to market, executives said. That’s important as investors press parent company Alphabet Inc. to show how AI investments can turn into new business.

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  Necro Trojan Detected in Google Play Apps and Modded Versions of Spotify, WhatsApp

  Google Play apps as well as unofficial mods of popular apps are being targeted by attackers to spread a dangerous malware, according to security researchers. Dubbed Necro trojan, this family of malware is capable of keylogging, stealing sensitive information, installing additional malware, remote execution of commands, and more. Two apps in the Goo...

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  Google Researchers Announce GameNGen, an AI-Powered Game Engine That Can Run Doom

  Google researchers announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) game engine last week. Dubbed GameNGen, it is entirely powered by a neural model and is capable of real-time generation over a long trajectory. The researchers claim that the game engine can generate complex environments at a high number of frames. Notably, the company claims that the ...

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  Google Releases Imagen 3 AI Image Generation Model to Users, Adds Improved Capabilities

  Google released its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) model for image generation, Imagen 3, on Thursday. The tech giant did not make any announcement for the release, and instead released the model quietly to users. Additionally, a research paper detailing the workings of the image generation model was also published in an online journal.

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  Harvard and Google Created the Most Detailed Map of Brain Using AI

  In a landmark achievement, Harvard University and Google have developed the most detailed brain map ever created. This innovative project focused on a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex, a sample taken during an epilepsy surgery in 2014. Over a decade, biologists and machine-learning experts meticulously mapped approximately 57,000 cells and...

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  Google’s Project Green Light Leverages AI to Tackle Traffic Congestion and Reduce Emissions

  Google Research is running a project that aims to mitigate the time one spends at the traffic light, especially at city intersections. The initiative, dubbed ‘Project Green Light’, is said to harness traffic engineering, coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), to improve the flow of traffic, tackle congestion and reduce fuel consumption – ...