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The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias

What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type of AI assistant it’s ever launched. ... Read more »

Hong Kong is safe from China’s Great Firewall—for now

To read more about how this injunction is specifically designed for Western Big Tech platforms, and the impact it’s likely to have on internet freedom, you can read my story here. Aside... Read more »

Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think

“Consider the mental equipment of the average modern man,” he wrote. “Most of the raw material of his thought enters his mind by way of a machine of some kind … the... Read more »

Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent

Google is unveiling many more new AI capabilities beyond agents today. It’s going to integrate AI more deeply into Search through a new feature called AI overviews, which gather information from the... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and what’s coming at Google I/O

The news: OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate with in real time via live voice conversation, video streams from your phone, and text. The... Read more »

What to expect at Google I/O

Since then, its ChatGPT competitor chatbot Bard (which, you may recall, temporarily wiped $100 billion off Google’s share price when it made a factual error during the demo) has been replaced by the more... Read more »

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o lets people interact using voice or video in the same model

GPT-4 offered similar capabilities, giving users multiple ways to interact with OpenAI’s AI offerings. But it siloed them in separate models, leading to longer response times and presumably higher computing costs. GPT-4o... Read more »

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model lets people interact using voice or video in the same model

GPT-4 offered similar capabilities, giving users multiple ways to interact with OpenAI’s AI offerings. But it siloed them in separate models, leading to longer response times and presumably higher computing costs. GPT-4o... Read more »

The Download: the future of chips, and investing in US AI

Thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence, the world of chips is on the cusp of a huge tidal shift. There is heightened demand for chips that can train AI models faster... Read more »

Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI

First, more dedicated government AI supercomputers need to be built for an array of missions ranging from classified intelligence processing to advanced biological computing. In the modern era, computing capabilities and technical... Read more »