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With AI image generators widely available online and more sophisticated than ever, it’s never been harder to tell if an image is authentic. But on Tuesday, OpenAI announced two new measures to help fight the problem. The company has committed to an open standard called C2PA, which adds a clear signal in metadata that an image was generated by AI. OpenAI is also partnering with Google to include an invisible watermark called SynthID, which will be harder to detect, but also harder to erase if bad actors try to cover their tracks. The new protections only apply to images generated…
At Google IO 2026, the company unveiled a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows. The company launched its Antigravity tool last year as a response to agentic coding software such as Cursor. The company said that with the new desktop app, users can orchestrate multiple agents and execute tasks simultaneously. Plus, you can design custom subagent workflows and schedule tasks that can automatically run in the background. The new app also easily lets you integrate projects with Google AI Studio, Android, and…
At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its agentic hub for managing shopping in one place. The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and teased that it would bring the technology to Google products in the coming months, enabling users to authorize agents to make payments on their behalf. The announcements signal Google’s push to turn AI assistants from passive recommendation tools into active participants in online commerce. By launching a centralized shopping system and building infrastructure that lets software agents complete purchases autonomously, the company is positioning itself to control more of…
At the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced it’s bringing a voice-based prompting feature to Workspace apps such as Docs, Keep, and Gmail. These features can help you create drafts, take notes, and search for emails. In Docs, you can create a draft document using your voice. For instance, in a demo, Google showed that a user can fetch résumé details from Drive, add event logistics from an email on top of the document, and even include some humorous anecdotes. Image Credits:Google Previously, users would have to type all this out, and it’s possible that, while typing, they might write…
In the race to build compelling personal AI agents, Google may have an underrated advantage: It already has all your emails. At its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark that was built from Gemini base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark as the next evolution of smart digital assistants, using agentic AI to take on long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight. “It’s your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction,”…
Google’s name comes from the mathematical term googol, a very, very large number. On Tuesday, at the company’s I/O conference, Google’s numerical destiny seemed to come true. Loading audio narration… CEO Sundar Pichai shared the latest numbers from some of Google’s most important products, especially newer AI offerings.First up: tokens, the core unit of use in generative AI. Pichai shared that Google now processes 3.2 quadrillion AI tokens monthly. That’s up from 480 trillion a year ago and 9.7 trillion in May 2024.Next, the CEO said more than 375 Google Cloud customers used over 1 trillion tokens each over the…
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan…
Michigan State University trustees have until this weekend to sign an updated board ethics policy with new additions that some say reinforce obligations but others portray as an effort to silence dissenters. Board members approved the changes 5-3 during a special Sunday night board meeting while also approving a near doubling of President Kevin Guskiewicz’s salary to $2 million amid concerns he may depart. The new policy states that trustees will support and not undermine decisions made by the majority of the board; they will uphold the university’s reputation, not provide misleading or false information about the university or divulge…
An assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school shook off repeated warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun that was later used to shoot his teacher, a prosecutor said Tuesday.Opening statements were given in the trial of Ebony Parker, who is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect in the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The shooting wounded first grade teacher Abby Zwerner in her classroom.Prior to the shooting, several school employees told Parker they believed the child had a gun in his backpack, only to be told by Parker that the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s recent caps on federal student loans, arguing the limits will make it harder for students pursuing certain healthcare degrees to attain the necessary training and education. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, plaintiffs representing 24 states and the District of Columbia argued the Trump administration’s rules would disproportionately impact critical healthcare sectors. “This rule will shut talented people out of critical professions and leave communities with fewer healthcare providers they desperately need,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a written statement. “We cannot afford fewer nurses,…