Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces a competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet product  —  At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an “AI Snapshot”, which provides a summary of search results, with links that “corroborate” the information  —  Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen.  Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google rebrands AI tools for its productivity apps as Duet AI and teases Sidekick, which will read, summarize, and answer questions on documents across its apps  —  In March, Google announced a bunch of AI features for its Workspace suite of apps in an effort to keep pace with Microsoft’s rapid integration of similar tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation with Adobe, and integration with services like Instacart  —  Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop in the US, planned for the spring, to June 2023 at the earliest, after struggling to attract merchants in 2022  —  Doubts over app’s future and tepid adoption of live-streaming e-commerce in the U.S. slow plans for full launch Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab  —  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products  —  Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.  This “next generation language model” is faster … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels  —  Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos.  While the company has already leveraged AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting with 15 cities, including NYC, London, and Paris  —  Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chavi Mehta / Reuters: Report: Satya Nadella tells staff Microsoft won’t raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards  —  Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards … Lees verder op Tech Meme