Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess. A Vercel security bulletin says that on April 19, the company “identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal…
Who, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week’s edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it’s The Register‘s reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Steve” who sent…
NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes. A few details about the plan appear in an April 17 NASA announcement which revealed that during a planned roll maneuver on February 27, “Voyager 1’s power levels fell unexpectedly.” “Mission…
Improving how LLMs learn and respond We’re also advancing how LLMs train, learn, and respond to users, improving performance and efficiency on several fronts. With larger context windows, LLMs can now learn from potentially thousands of examples at once — known as many-shot in-context learning (ICL). This process boosts model performance on tasks like math,…
A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Information is at the core of human progress. It’s why we’ve focused for more than 26 years on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. And it’s why we continue to push the frontiers of AI to organize that information…
While video models often “hallucinate” unwanted details — extra fingers or unexpected objects, for example — Veo 2 produces these less frequently, making outputs more realistic. Our commitment to safety and responsible development has guided Veo 2. We have been intentionally measured in growing Veo’s availability, so we can help identify, understand and improve the…
Acknowledgements FACTS is a collaboration between Google DeepMind and Google Research.FACTS Grounding was led by: Alon Jacovi, Andrew Wang, Chris Alberti, Connie Tao, Dipanjan Das, Jon Lipovetz, Kate Olszewska, Lukas Haas, Michelle Liu, and Nate Keating. We are also very grateful for contributions from: Adam Bloniarz, Carl Saroufim, Corey Fry, Dror Marcus, Doron Kukliansky, Gaurav…
Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has suspended the nation’s game rating system (IGRS) after claims the service leaked developer creds and video of unreleased games. The claim of a leak appeared in a Reddit post from a user with the handle “Me_ Finity” who said they built their own front…
Our next iteration of the FSF sets out stronger security protocols on the path to AGI AI is a powerful tool that is helping to unlock new breakthroughs and make significant progress on some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to drug discovery. But as its development progresses, advanced capabilities may…
In December, we kicked off the agentic era by releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash — our highly efficient workhorse model for developers with low latency and enhanced performance. Earlier this year, we updated 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental in Google AI Studio, which improved its performance by combining Flash’s speed with the ability…