Hacker News with Generative AI: Google

Google's Veo3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content (gizmodo.com)
Wake up, babe, new viral AI video generator dropped. This time, it’s not OpenAI’s Sora model in the spotlight, it’s Google’s Veo 3, which was announced on Tuesday during the company’s annual I/O keynote. Naturally, people are eager to see what chaos Veo 3 can wreak, and the results have been, well, chaotic. We’ve got disjointed Michael Bay fodder, talking muffins, self-aware AI sims, puppy-centric pharmaceutical ads—the list goes on.

Artificial Intelligence, Video Generation, Google, YouTube, Social Media

21 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 7 comments

Google faces a dilemma: improve Google Search or go beyond it? (eshumarneedi.com)
At last year’s I/O developer conference, Google played catch-up to OpenAI after being caught off-guard by the Silicon Valley start-up’s breakthrough ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, first launched in the fall of 2022.

Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT

8 points by freediver 11 hours ago | 0 comments

Google pretends to be in on the joke, but its focus on AI Mode search is serious (arstechnica.com)
Google used to be all about the 10 blue links, but that was then, and this is now. You have to scroll farther than ever to get to the links in Google search results, and now this trend is being taken to its ultimate conclusion. At I/O, the company has announced a major expansion of AI Mode search, which heralds a new era for its signature product.

Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Technology

4 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 0 comments

Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)
Gemini Diffusion. Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers.

Artificial Intelligence, Google, Diffusion Models, Generative AI

846 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 230 comments

News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft' (theverge.com)
The News/Media Alliance says Google ‘just takes content by force and uses it with no return’ to publishers like Condé Nast and Vox Media.

Artificial Intelligence, News Media, Google, Copyright, Business

18 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 3 comments

Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search (theverge.com)
Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results because it’s “evolving into a space for monetisation.”

Google, Search Engines, AI, Publishing, Monetization

12 points by microflash 2 days ago | 0 comments

Gemini 2.5 is leaving preview just in time for Google's new $250 AI subscription (arstechnica.com)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google rolled out early versions of Gemini 2.5 earlier this year. Marking a significant improvement over the 2.0 branch. For the first time, Google's chatbot felt competitive with the likes of ChatGPT, but it's been "experimental" and later "preview" since then. At I/O 2025, Google announced general availability for Gemini 2.5, and these models will soon be integrated with Chrome. There's also a fancy new subscription plan to get the most from Google's AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Google, Subscriptions

4 points by travisgriggs 2 days ago | 2 comments

Google Shows Off Android XR Smart Glasses with In-Lens Display (macrumors.com)
Google today showed off a set of lightweight smart glasses that have deep Gemini integration and an optional in-lens display that can offer up relevant information like turn-by-turn directions.

Google, Augmented Reality, Smart Glasses, Wearable Technology, Android

5 points by tosh 2 days ago | 0 comments

Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025 (wired.com)
Google just held its big I/O developer shindig and product announcement event today in California.

Google, I/O, Tech Conferences, Software Announcements, Artificial Intelligence

7 points by 01-_- 2 days ago | 0 comments

Project Mariner – Browser-Based AI Agent (deepmind.google)

Artificial Intelligence, Browsers, Google, DeepMind

12 points by jenthoven 3 days ago | 0 comments

On-device small language models with multimodality, RAG, and Function Calling (googleblog.com)
Last year Google AI Edge introduced support for on-device small language models (SLMs) with four initial models on Android, iOS, and Web. Today, we are excited to expand support to over a dozen models including the new Gemma 3 and Gemma 3n models, hosted on our new LiteRT Hugging Face community.

Mobile Development, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Hugging Face

14 points by cuuupid 3 days ago | 1 comments

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI (googleblog.com)
Following the exciting launches of Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT, our family of state-of-the-art open models capable of running on a single cloud or desktop accelerator, we're pushing our vision for accessible AI even further.

Mobile, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Google

128 points by Philpax 3 days ago | 1 comments

With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier (wired.com)
Google is rolling out its AI Mode search experience to everyone in the US starting today.

Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google, AI, Chatbots

6 points by tosh 3 days ago | 0 comments

AI Mode in Google Search (google)
We're introducing new AI features to make it easier to ask any question in Search.

Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines, Google

11 points by ChrisArchitect 3 days ago | 0 comments

Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better (google)
Gemini 2.5 Pro continues to be loved by developers as the best model for coding, and 2.5 Flash is getting even better with a new update. We’re also bringing new capabilities to our models, including Deep Think, an experimental enhanced reasoning mode for 2.5 Pro.

Generative AI, Google, AI, Software

68 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 21 comments

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (google.dev)
The Gemini API offers different models that are optimized for specific use cases.

Generative AI, Google, API

9 points by open-paren 3 days ago | 0 comments

Google I/O '25 Keynote [video] (youtube.com)

Google, Keynote, Conferences, Technology, Video

10 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 1 comments

Lyria 2 (deepmind.google)
Lyria 2 delivers high-fidelity music and professional-grade audio, capturing subtle nuances across a range of genres and intricate compositions.

AI, Music, Audio Technology, Google

23 points by georgehill 3 days ago | 5 comments

Teachable Machine (teachablemachine.withgoogle.com)

Machine Learning, Google, Tools

72 points by tosh 3 days ago | 12 comments

Google Launches NotebookLM for Android (9to5google.com)
As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android ahead of I/O 2025.

Android, Generative AI, Google, Mobile Apps

12 points by thm 4 days ago | 2 comments

Material 3 Expressive (material.io)

Design, User Interfaces, Google, Material Design

54 points by nativeforks 4 days ago | 53 comments

Google fixes high severity Chrome flaw with public exploit (bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has released emergency security updates to patch a high-severity vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that could lead to full account takeover following successful exploitation.

Security, Chrome, Vulnerabilities, Google

13 points by akyuu 5 days ago | 0 comments

Google is about to unleash Gemini Nano's power for third-party Android apps (androidauthority.com)
Google is expanding access to Gemini Nano, its on-device AI model, through new ML Kit GenAI APIs.

Android, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Mobile Development, Machine Learning

4 points by rntn 5 days ago | 0 comments

Google Logo Ligature Bug (jefftk.com)
Jeffrey Yasskin recently pointed out an interesting security bug:

Google, Security, Bugs

133 points by cubefox 5 days ago | 42 comments

Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction (exotext.com)
Over the past few years, Google has done a surprisingly great job of making YouTube less interesting and engaging — and in turn, less addictive.

Google, YouTube, Addiction, Technology, Social Media

116 points by ambigious7777 5 days ago | 96 comments

Google says Linux Terminal VM feature isn't replacement for Android desktop mode (androidauthority.com)
A Google employee has revealed why the company recently added a Linux Terminal app to Android.

Android, Linux, Operating Systems, Google, Mobile

12 points by transpute 5 days ago | 4 comments

Google reverses course after blocking Nextcloud Files app (neowin.net)
Google has reversed course after effectively crippling the Nextcloud Files app on Android for users who installed it via the Google Play Store, a decision that many, including Nextcloud, felt was an abuse of power.

Google, Android, Software, Open Source, App Stores

58 points by bundie 6 days ago | 23 comments

Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app (theregister.com)
In a turn of events to warm our withered hearts, Google has offered to restore the permission that was revoked from Nextcloud's Files app for Android.

Android, Google, Open Source, Cloud Storage, Privacy

6 points by beardyw 6 days ago | 0 comments

Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal (theintercept.com)
Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.

Cloud Computing, Google, Israel, Government, Military

69 points by zhengiszen 7 days ago | 20 comments

Getting AI to write good SQL (cloud.google.com)
Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This capability increases developer and analysts’ productivity and empowers non-technical users to interact directly with the data they need.

Artificial Intelligence, SQL, Data, Google, Productivity

495 points by richards 7 days ago | 355 comments