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.
Digital health tools have earned their permanent residency in healthcare. Most hospitals today offer patient-facing applications — and roughly two-thirds of US patients have accessed a health portal at least once. Yet more than 95% use it passively – checking notifications, but never initiating contact with the service. Is bad user experience to blame? Which engagement tactics are even ethically acceptable in healthcare?
On one hand, the company secures massive $3.3 billion tax breaks to build a new Louisiana data center; on the other – it prepares to lay off roughly 8,000 employees. Meta is clearly betting everything on artificial intelligence development, offloading the costs of this transformation onto American taxpayers and its own workforce as internal morale hits rock bottom.
Flashing popular hand gestures for selfies could cost us our biometric data. As reported by The Korea Herald, a new generation of AI tools can easily reconstruct fingerprints from ordinary photos posted online.
If you ask a chatbot about politics, its answer will largely depend on the language you use. Researchers from top US universities have published a report showing that authoritarian governments are successfully influencing global AI models by flooding the internet with state-controlled media.
Google is officially announcing a new category of laptops – Googlebooks. Powered by a DeepMind-developed system codenamed “Aluminium OS,” the devices will offer deep integration with Android and use Gemini AI as the foundation of their interface.
Internal artificial intelligence usage stats at Amazon might be heavily skewed. According to recent reports, corporate employees are mass-assigning pointless tasks to the company’s MeshClaw assistant simply to boost their numbers on token-usage leaderboards and score points with management.