Google touts its new AI assistant Gemini as eco-friendly, claiming minimal water and energy usage per text prompt, but critics argue the tech giant omits key data and its overall carbon emissions and resource usage keep rising despite efficiency gains.
Google expands its AI-powered Search Mode with task assistance for activities like booking restaurants, offering personalized recommendations based on user interests, while also rolling out to over 180 countries for complex query handling.
China escalates tensions with the US by discouraging local firms from purchasing NVIDIA's H20 AI chips, finding US commerce secretary's remarks about limiting China's access to advanced chips 'insulting', as NVIDIA develops a new chip for the Chinese market.
Google unveils AI Inference Impact Metrics, a methodology quantifying the energy, emissions, and water footprint of AI inference tasks like Gemini text prompts, revealing median energy use of 0.24 watt-hours and emissions of 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide per prompt.
Cohere's Command A Reasoning, a highly secure and efficient AI model, outshines privately deployable alternatives, powering the company's flagship enterprise platform North for secure deployment of AI agents and automations.
Google and GSA unveil 'Gemini for Government' agreement offering federal agencies access to Google's AI models, agents, and cloud infrastructure at discounted rates to accelerate AI adoption across government as outlined in America's AI Action Plan.
AI companies are forging global data alliances to train models, sparking privacy concerns as Perplexity bids a staggering $34.5 billion to acquire Google's Chrome browser, escalating the AI supremacy battle.
Google AI Mode expands globally, offering AI Ultra subscribers an agentic capability that provides personalized restaurant recommendations across platforms, considering preferences like cuisine, party size, and timing to curate dining options in 180 countries.
FieldAI, backed by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, secures over $400 million to develop AI 'brains' that control third-party robots using models trained on real-world data, powering the next generation of intelligent robotics.
Harvard dropouts unveil AI smart glasses that listen, transcribe, and display relevant information from conversations, raising privacy alarms as the glasses can covertly record without consent in some states.