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LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

By Victor Tangermann

Google misrepresented the way its Gemini Pro can recognize a series of images and admitted to speeding up the footage.

Google Admits Gemini AI Demo Was at Least Partially Faked

By Victor Tangermann

Google has officially launched its latest AI model called Gemini — which it claims to be more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.

Google Shows Off “Gemini” AI, Says It Beats GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

In his latest grim forecast, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that there aren't enough guardrails to stop AI from doing catastrophic harm.

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Endanger Humanity Within Five Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was best known for his cover of Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" — but now, AI has gotten to him, too.

The Top Google Image for Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Is AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

By Noor Al-Sibai

The co-founder of Google DeepMind has for decades thought that AGI will be achieved by 2028 — and he's holding firm on that 50/50 bet.

Google AI Chief Says There’s a 50% Chance We’ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

By Frank Landymore

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google, claiming Google Maps directions made the father drive his car off a bridge last year.

Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI pioneer and onetime Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world.

Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sketchy sites are purporting to sell semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, without a prescription. Google is cashing in.

Google Seems to Be Running a Lot of Ads for Black Market Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

By Sharon Adarlo

Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.

Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google and Universal Music Reportedly Want to Monetize Deepfaked AI Songs

By Frank Landymore

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

By Victor Tangermann

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's forthcoming new AI combines LLM technology with the strengths of the groundbreaking AlphaGo, says Google DeepMind CEO.

Google AI Boss Says New System Will Be More Powerful Than OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's parent company Alphabet is warning employees about how they use AI chatbots — including its own tool called Bard, Reuters reports.

Google Warns Employees About Using AI, While Promoting Its Own AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google is required to pay out $23 million to users as part of a class action lawsuit settlement. You have until July 31 to make a claim.

If You Googled Anything During the Years “30 Rock” Was on TV, You Can Get Free Money Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

Asked to provide accurate air quality index (AQI) information, Google's AI-powered search tool offered incorrect and conflicting answers.

As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air Quality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.

Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After warning that AI could kill us all, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued that AI could help fill in for the babies we're not having.

Former Google CEO Says AI Can’t Destroy Humankind If We Do It First

By Victor Tangermann

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google employees reportedly played a drinking game during the company's I/O developer conference last week, mocking executives mentioning AI.

Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

He might not helm Google anymore, but Eric Schmidt is absolutely still thinking like a tech CEO when it comes to AI.

Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just revealed vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone created AI-generated Edward Hopper painting — and Google's search featured the image in its algorithmic overview of the artist's work.

Top Google Result for “Edward Hopper” an AI-Generated Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered neural networks, has suddenly left Google after almost a decade, warning of the dangers of AI.

Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work

By Frank Landymore

We caught up with fired Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine to chat about the AI industry, Google, and more.

We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.

Google Staff Warned Its AI Was a “Pathological Liar” Before They Released It Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.

Elon Musk Claims Google Co-Founder Is Building a “Digital God”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned audiences in a 60 Minutes interview on CBS that AI will drastically disrupt society as we know it.

Google CEO Warns Earthlings to Brace for AI Impact

By Frank Landymore

We can now, apparently, add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think AI might gain self-awareness.

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI May Become Self-Aware

By Noor Al-Sibai

Like a human possessed, an AI made by Google appears to know things it wasn't trained to learn — and yeah, it's freaking us out.

Google Surprised When Experimental AI Learns Language It Was Never Trained On

By Noor Al-Sibai

It might be gone by now, but if you use Google Pay, you might've received some free dinero that you'll want to cash out sooner than rather than later.

Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money

By Frank Landymore

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company has AI search products in the work, with aspirations of integrating chatbot functionality into its Google Search.

Google CEO Says It’s Adding AI to Search

By Frank Landymore

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.

Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying.

Google Denies Claim That Bard Was Trained by Stealing ChatGPT Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.

Google’s Bard AI Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest Big Tech chatbot, the Bard AI by Google, just dropped, and there seems to be something kind of funny going on with it.

Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Google-made, AI-powered Bard chatbot is already spouting disinformation with shocking ease — and supporting those conspiracies with fake news sources.

Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré