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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google has introduced a cheaper AI Ultra plan at $100 a month. * The full Ultra Plan is now $50 cheaper at $200 a month. * Certain AI Pro subscribers also get YouTube Premium Lite for free.
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google Omni aims to do for video what Nano Banana did for images. * Creators can build videos from text, images, audio, or video. * AI avatars could help creators, but raise trust concerns. Today, Google announced
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * OpenAI now uses C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks. * Hidden pixel signals can help identify AI-generated images. * A public OpenAI verification tool is also rolling out. Today, OpenAI announced what it calls content provenance signals across
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Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference. Software companies have been talking up AI agents for some time now, but
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A wave of déjà vu washes over me as Elias Roman, vice president of product management at Google Labs, demos a new “avatar” feature for Flow, the company’s tool that lets users generate and remix AI videos and images. He previously scanned his likeness to create a digital clone
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AI agents are everywhere. Every briefing I’ve attended for software companies over the past year has involved some mention of agents—using generative AI tools to automate digital tasks. Despite breakout moments at the start of 2026, like the plucky OpenClaw agent that early adopters used to manage their
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Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, is keen to talk about the coding skills of his company’s newest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model has been trained to perform complex agentic coding tasks: translate large code bases from one language to another; find and fix bugs lurking
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Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla's AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 that he's joining rival lab Anthropic. As Karpathy posted from his account on the social network X:
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Although it was already discovered by intrepid AI power users weeks ahead of the official unveiling today at Google's annual I/O developer conference, the company's new Gemini Omni model marks a significantly new paradigm in the wider AI and tech marketplace. That's because
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Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to work around the clock — drafting emails, assembling documents, monitoring inboxes, and eventually making purchases — even when a user's laptop is closed and their phone is locked. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026, is the
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For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference,
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Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday, a new artificial intelligence model that the company says shatters what had become a seemingly iron law of the AI industry: that the smartest models must also be the slowest and most expensive to run.
