Jay Peters
Is it 2025?
Google’s AI Overviews told Wired (and me, when I tried) that no, it is not 2025.
A Google spokesperson said to Wired that the company is “actively working on an update to address this type of issue.”
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Dominic Preston
Richard Lawler
Business Insider lays off 21 percent of staff to “endure extreme traffic drops.”
As reported by The Information and Axios reporter Sara Fischer, CEO Barbara Peng emailed staff on Thursday announcing Business Insider is “scaling back on categories that once performed well on other platforms” and mostly exiting its search-reliant Commerce business in an apparent acknowledgement of Google Zero, despite Sundar Pichai’s rebuttals.
Now it’s shrinking, noting “70 percent of our business has some degree of traffic sensitivity,” while going all-in on AI with a push to use Enterprise ChatGPT, gen-AI site search, an AI paywall, and other products.
Business Insider Lays Off 21% of Staff
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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Richard Lawler
“I love robots so much.”
Joanna Stern’s new video for the Wall Street Journal combines several AI tools, like Google Veo 2, the just-launched Veo 3, Midjourney, Runway, Suno, and ElevenLabs, to make this “My Robot and Me” short.
Beyond just seeing what they’re capable of in the hands of a skilled producer, Joanna also digs into how much all this would’ve cost (about $1,000), and shows off a few of the misfires created by the generators.
Dominic Preston
Emma Roth
Google Drive will now let you see how many times people opened your video.
You can see the new metric by selecting a video in your Drive, clicking the three-dot menu, and then hitting “Details.” From there, you’ll find a new “Analytics” section that shows how many times the video has been opened.
The head of Google discusses the next AI platform shift and how it could change how we use the internet forever.
Nilay Patel
David Pierce
Thomas Ricker
Google’s Pixel 10 flagship leaks again.
Google’s yet to say anything official about the Pixel 10, but it was recently caught mid commercial shoot on a Vancouver beach by @MarksGonePublic on X. Separately, Mystic Leaks says we should expect color options for the Pixel 10 to include a black Obsidian, blue, purple Iris, and yellow Limoncello, and the 10 Pro and XL models to come in choice of white Porcelain, black Obsidian, green, and gray Sterling.