Hacker News with Generative AI: Google

Google and the Art of Weaponizing Privacy (vincentschmalbach.com)
Every time Google makes a "privacy" change, competitors mysteriously lose access to data while Google's own data empire grows stronger.

Google, Privacy, Competition, Data, Technology

7 points by vincent_s 30 days ago | 0 comments

Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google (bbc.com)
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an online child safety bill that requires Apple and Google to ensure that their app stores verify the age of users in the nation's second most populous state.

Texas, Legislation, Apple, Google, Online Safety

11 points by colinprince 30 days ago | 0 comments

Google to pay $1.38B over privacy violations (malwarebytes.com)
The state of Texas reached a mammoth financial agreement with Google last week, securing $1.375 billion in payments to settle two three year-old lawsuits.

Google, Privacy, Lawsuits, Finance

5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 days ago | 2 comments

Google is quietly burying the internet – is there a solution? (ycombinator.com)
Google’s new AI Mode doesn’t just summarize the web. It sidelines it.

Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

11 points by stanislavb 31 days ago | 5 comments

OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) (github.com/UCSBarchlab)
OpenTPU is an open-source re-implementation of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) by the UC Santa Barbara ArchLab.

Open Source, Hardware, Machine Learning, Google

166 points by walterbell 31 days ago | 22 comments

Google introduces webcam "liveness check" option to reCAPTCHA (google.com)
You’ll need to allow temporary camera access to capture your hand movements

Security, Google, AI, Web Development

18 points by aaaaaaaaax 31 days ago | 7 comments

Google's Chief Scientist Is Vibe Coding? [video] (youtube.com)

Google, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Video

4 points by Afrixup 32 days ago | 0 comments

Google is burying the web alive (nymag.com)
Google Is Burying the Web Alive

Google, Search Engines, Internet, Technology

225 points by doener 32 days ago | 198 comments

Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
Earlier this month, I received a phone call from a user of Three Rings, the volunteer/rota management software system I founded1.

Privacy, Google, Software, Personal Data

471 points by luu 32 days ago | 175 comments

Gemma 3n Architectural Innovations – Speculation and poking around in the model (reddit.com)
Gemma 3n is a new member of the Gemma family with free weights that was released during Google I/O. It's dedicated to on-device (edge) inference and supports image and text input, with audio input. Google has released an app that can be used for inference on the phone.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Google, Software

16 points by nolist_policy 33 days ago | 7 comments

Google's AI Mode is 'the definition of theft,' publishers say (9to5google.com)
The AI takeover of Search is in full swing, especially as Google’s new AI Mode is going live for all US users. But for publishers, this continues the existential crisis around how Google Search is changing, with a new statement calling AI Mode “the definition of theft” while legal documents reveal that Google did consider opt out controls that ultimately weren’t implemented.

Artificial Intelligence, Google, Publishing, Law, Search

56 points by ironyman 35 days ago | 63 comments

I Hated Smart Glasses, but Google's Android XR Let Me See a New Future (cnet.com)
Whatever tech you're after, we'll help you save on it.

Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality, Technology, Google, Reviews

25 points by mosura 35 days ago | 3 comments

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

27 points by thunderbong 35 days ago | 20 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

10 points by freediver 36 days 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

6 points by LorenDB 36 days 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

890 points by mdp2021 37 days ago | 244 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

19 points by cheeaun 37 days 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

13 points by microflash 37 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 37 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, Wearables, Technology, Mobile

51 points by tosh 37 days ago | 78 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

8 points by 01-_- 37 days ago | 0 comments

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

Artificial Intelligence, Browsers, Google, DeepMind

12 points by jenthoven 38 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 38 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

129 points by Philpax 38 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 38 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

12 points by ChrisArchitect 38 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 38 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 38 days ago | 0 comments

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

Google, Keynote, Conferences, Technology, Video

10 points by mfiguiere 38 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

24 points by georgehill 38 days ago | 5 comments