· May 29

Google Launches AI Ultra Plan With Access to Its Most Advanced Tools

Google has launched a new high-tier AI subscription called Google AI Ultra, priced at $249.99 per month with a 50% discount for the first three months, targeting professionals like filmmakers, developers, and researchers. The plan offers access to advanced AI models such as Gemini with the highest usage limits, Flow...

Google’s Sergey Brin Says AI Can Synthesize Top 1,000 Search Results

Google co-founder Sergey Brin explained that AI is transforming search by synthesizing answers from thousands of results, enabling deep research that would take humans days or weeks. He highlighted that machine learning models are converging into unified models that incorporate specialized learnings, moving away from multiple separate algorithms. Brin also...
· May 26

Meta AI chief says AI is good, but it does not have 4 key human traits yet

Yann LeCun, Meta AI chief scientist and one of the “godfathers of AI,” asserts that current AI models lack four fundamental human traits: understanding the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning, and complex hierarchical planning. He critiques existing methods that add supplementary features to AI models and advocates for “world-based models”...
· May 23

Claude Opus 4: The AI Revolution That Could Transform DevOps Workflows – DevOps.com

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI assistant marks a significant advancement in DevOps by enabling autonomous operation for up to seven hours, transforming workflow automation beyond simple code generation. This AI can analyze infrastructure, optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhance monitoring, and automate security and compliance tasks, thereby shifting DevOps from reactive to...
· May 22

Google’s Best AI Tool Can Now Create Video Explainers

Google’s AI-powered note-taking tool is introducing Video Overviews, a new feature that creates video explainers from your notes. This addition complements the existing Audio Overviews, which generate podcast-style summaries with AI hosts. The video explainer feature aims to enhance note comprehension by providing a visual and auditory format. The update...
· May 21

Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you

Google is enhancing its AI model Gemini by deeply integrating user data to provide highly personalized responses. Earlier this year, users could opt into “Gemini with personalization,” which leverages search history for tailored outputs; now Google expands this to use data from various apps with user permission. At Google I/O,...
· May 21

NotebookLM is getting AI video explainers, and they look surprisingly useful

Google’s NotebookLM AI product is introducing Video Overviews, allowing users to generate visual explainers based on uploaded sources such as PDFs or photos. This feature complements the existing Audio Overviews, offering a more visual learning medium for complex topics. Additionally, Audio Overviews will gain duration controls to enhance user experience....
· May 20

Google AI Mode Gets Faster

Google’s AI Mode has significantly improved its speed, now quickly kicking off searches and showing responses without the previous lengthy steps of processing and organizing information. This faster performance was observed and shared by Brodie Clark on social media, highlighting more detailed analysis during responses, such as the number of...
· May 20

Microsoft Brings MCP, Local AI Models and Post-Quantum Security to Windows

At the Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft announced new AI-focused features integrated into Windows, including the Windows AI Foundry—tools that enable local AI model management and built-in APIs for advanced functionalities like text summarization and semantic search. The company introduced Foundry Local for optimized local model usage supporting catalogs from Ollama...