This year’s Google I/O conference offered few surprises, yet it made one thing perfectly clear: artificial intelligence is transitioning from a mere assistant into the very foundation of the Mountain View giant’s ecosystem. CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled the next-generation Gemini 3.5 model family, the multimodal Gemini Omni system, and a deep integration of AI into Google Search and Workspace tools that is poised to fundamentally reshape how we navigate the web and handle documents.
South Korean lawmakers are planning to tighten their recently enacted artificial intelligence law. The new bill mandates embedding permanent watermarks directly into AI-generated files and introduces harsh criminal penalties – including prison time – for netizens who intentionally modify or remove them.
Artificial intelligence is rarely completely certain of its answers, but we trust it implicitly anyway. A new study published in Communications Psychology shows that users massively overestimate algorithms’ confidence. Our sky-high expectations for technology make us blindly accept information from machines as a given, even when the system is merely guessing and prone to error.
Nearly 45,000 unionized workers at the South Korean tech giant are planning an 18-day strike set to begin on May 21. A potential shutdown of 12 production lines at the company, which is investing a record $73 billion this year, could send massive shockwaves through the artificial intelligence market and cost the firm between 30 and 100 trillion won.