2024 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, There was a lot of AI at Google I/O. Did Google answer OpenAI well? Plus Comcast continues the streaming bundling.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for... Tuesday May 14th, 2024. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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19		sl	Image-sensor maker Sony saw strong sensor sales to drive a 14% year on year increase in revenue, though it was the first quarterly drop since September 2020. Financial services dragged down overall profit and revenue leading to a 7% drop for the full year, over last year. Sony also missed its own lowered target of 21 million PS5 sales, coming in at 20.8 million. Sony also announced that Hideki Nishino will take over as CEO of Sony Iinteractive Entertainment's Platform business group, overseeing hardware and third-party content. Herman Hulst will be CEO of Sony Interactive's Studio Business Group overseeing content development, including TV and movie adaptations and first party publishing. They'll take over as co-CEOs on June 1.	https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/sony-q4-and-full-year-2023-earnings.html
20		tm	The US will increase tariffs on a number of Chinese goods, including chips, solar cells, medical products and a quadrupling of tariffs on EVs. Tariffs not only raise the price of the goods they target for import but can raise the price of domestic goods as well as there is less price competition to keep prices low. So it's possible you'll see higher prices for all these kinds of goods.	https://www.engadget.com/biden-administration-quadruples-import-tariff-for-chinese-evs-130047911.html
21		sl	Square Enix reported that sales rose 2.6% last fiscal year, but profit fell 15.8%. This is despite the launch of Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, both PlayStation exclusives. Square Enix announced a three-year plan to “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs.” They didn't say this would mean an end to Final Fantasy exclusivity to Sony, but it likely does. They also talked about emphasizing quality over quantity.	https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-maker-square-enix-will-aggressively-pursue-a-multiplatform-strategy-after-profits-tumble
22		tm	Warner Brothers Discovery has been saying it will shut down about a dozen Adult Swim-related indie games games for a couple of months now, but took its time in clarifying that it will do the right thing and return the games rights and store pages to the developers. Initially the company had said it would not transfer the games to their creators but thankfully changed its mind. Developers could have resisted their games but would have to start from scratch on recommendations and reviews.	https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/warner-bros-gives-adult-swim-games-back-to-their-creators-rather-than-kill-them/
23		sl	The EU is following its promise to identify new gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. Booking.com joins Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft, because it passed the threshold of 45 million monthly active users and 10,000+ yearly active business users on March 1. The designation just means ti has increased obligations for interoperation and fair play that its competitors do not.	https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-says-booking-must-comply-with-strict-tech-rules-investigates-x-2024-05-13/
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28		sl	The bundles keep coming. Later this month Comcast will offer its broadband, TV, and mobile customers a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+ at a reduced price. Comcast will call the bundle the StreamSaver. The company did not announce a price, but implied it would be a deep discount over getting the services individually. The cheapest way to get all three services at this point would cost $23 a month with ads on Peacock and Netflix. Though, Peacock is getting a price increase of $2 on its lowest tier starting July 17.	https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/
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38			Google I/O (Eye/Oh)	https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-i-o-2024-everything-announced-so-far/
39			Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year. And in a press briefing ahead of the annoucnement, Google said it will use generative AI to organize the entire search results page for some search results. NOTES Search - Customized Gemini model for search Multi-step reasoning. - find studios near you, available times, and how to book. All in one query. Google stressing its advantage in having access to facts Custom workout routine, party planning, meal planning etc. - "Helpful clusters" organize info into a complex search result. You'll start to see this new layout starting with restaurants. Ask questions with video - video frame fed into long contact window to recognize info and create overview Rolling out in coming weeks. First to search labs opt-ins	https://searchengineland.com/google-rolls-out-ai-overviews-in-us-with-more-countries-coming-soon-440418
40			Google debuts Veo, a text-to-video model that outputs at 1080p resolution, and Imagen 3, its highest quality image generation model with improved text rendering. Google announces Ask Photos with Gemini, which can answer user questions like “show me the best photo from each national park I've visited” from Google Photos NOTES Project Astra - Universal agent. Recorded version of the demo OpenAI did live yesterday. - Asked where the glasses were and they were glasses with a camera Imagen 3 - more photorealistic and richer details. - understand prompts the way people write. - Best yet at rendering text - Sign up at labs in IMageFX and coming to Vertex AI Music AI Sandbox - Generative Music Veo - more photorealistic and richer details. - Veo will be in VideoFX - Coming to VideoFX in labs"	https://www.engadget.com/google-unveils-veo-and-imagen-3-its-latest-ai-media-creation-models-173617373.html
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42				https://www.engadget.com/ask-google-photos-to-get-help-making-sense-of-your-gallery-170734062.html
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44			Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models NOTES Android - Search Circle to search getting more complex problems later this year. - Gemini is the AI assistant Context aware. Can ask questions about a video you are watching - On-device models for speed and privacy Coming to Pixel later this year is Gemini Nano with Multimodality. Talkback - accessibility feature getting multimodal capability. Gemini can understand phone call and warn about scams. Later this year can understand content of screen. Android 15 Beta 2 details coming tomorrow	https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/
45			Google unveils Gemini Pro in Workspace Labs, shipping later this month, that lets users summarize emails by topic and more, like “compare my roof repair bids” Google announces that Gemini Advanced will update with deeper Android integration to answer questions about videos and PDFs being viewed on screen NOTES Gemini for Workspace - Gemini side panel will be generally available next month - Gemini in Meet is expanding to 68 languages. Gmail Mobile - Summarize feature for threads - Q&A on anything in inbox. - Reply prompts take in context Labs users. Summarize comes this month; Q&A and Contextual replies arrive in July. AI Workflows for documents and Gmail. Like extracting receipts from Gmail into an expense-tracking spreadsheet - AI workflows will come out to lab users this September, along with data Q&A.	https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/
46			Google announces that Gemini Advanced subscribers will soon be able to make personalized Gemini chatbots, called Gems, with distinct personalities and abilities NOTES Virtual Gemini-powered teammate - Has a workspace account - Give it a job role. Like monitor and track projects, Add to chats - third-parties will eventually be able to create their very own versions of Chip. - No date. Gemini App - Live - interact with voice - coming in summer - video understanding - Gems - create a virtual expert. Rolling out in coming months. Gemini Advanced Trip planning in Gemini Advanced. - Coming this summer to Gemini Advanced - Gemini Advanced has the longest context window of any chatbot in the world (eventually 2 million tokens) - Coming to 35 supported languages now	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156511/google-ai-gemini-gems-custom-chatbots	2
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48			Google says Gemini Nano is now built into Chrome on desktop, with plans to use it to power features like the existing “help me write” tool	https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-is-building-its-gemini-nano-ai-model-into-chrome-on-the-desktop/
49			Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic's Claude 3 Google announces the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model, more lightweight than Gemini Pro, with a context window of 1M tokens and the multimodal capabilities of Pro Google unveils additions to Gemma, its family of open models, including Gemma 2, a 27B parameter model, debuting in June, and PaliGemma, a vision language model NOTES Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash Developer announcements Available globally in more than 200 regions API features - video frame extraction, parallel function calling, and context caching (saves money by ensuingg repeat duplicate data once). - $7 for 1.5 Pro, $3.50 up to 128K, Flash is 35 cents for one million tokens. (GPT-4o is $5 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.) Ships next month AIstudio.google.com to freely try models Gemma - Open Models - First vision language open model PaliGemma. Optimized for images - Gemma 2 - coming in June. 27 billion parameter model optimized by Nvidia and can run on single TPU in VertexAI	https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/googles-generative-ai-model-can-now-analyze-hours-of-video/
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52			Google announces Trillium, its new Google Cloud TPU that has 4.7 times better computing performance compared with the TPU v5e and is 67% more energy efficient	https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-launches-trillium-chip-improving-ai-data-center-performance-fivefold-2024-05-14/
53			Google expands its SynthID watermark imprinting system to AI-generated video and text; the tool can already attempt to detect AI-generated images and audio NOTES AI ethics and responsibility - Working on tools to prevent misuse of its tools like IMagen3 - SynthID watermarking expanding to text and video. - Collaborating with the C2PA standards efforts. - LearnLM is a new family of models based on Gemini fine-tuned for learning. - Learning Coach Gem launching in the coming months - LearnLM in YouTube makes educational videos interactive.	https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155927/google-ai-synthid-watermark-text-video-io	2
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