This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more stories on Big Tech versus politics in Washington, DC, follow Tina Nguyen and read Regulator. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. A long time ago, in 2004,…
OPINION AI vendors: “You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment).” Also AI vendors: “That’s not a security flaw; it’s working as intended.” This pattern has become increasingly common as the digital hypemeisters tell businesses to use AI to do all the things, especially when…
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation. Source link
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Juanita Bawagan, Arielle Bier, Stephanie Booth, Irina Andronic, Armin Senoner, Dhavanthi Hariharan, Rob Ashley, Agata Laydon and Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool for their help with the text and figures. This work was done thanks to the contributions of the AlphaGenome co-authors: Žiga Avsec, Natasha Latysheva, Jun Cheng, Guido Novati, Kyle R….
We gave our new C2S-Scale 27B model a task: Find a drug that acts as a conditional amplifier, one that would boost the immune signal only in a specific “immune-context-positive” environment where low levels of interferon (a key immune-signaling protein) were already present, but inadequate to induce antigen presentation on their own. This required a…
Five months ago, we introduced Flow, our AI filmmaking tool powered by Veo, and have been inspired by the creativity it has sparked with over 275 million videos generated in Flow . We’re always listening to your feedback, and we’ve heard that you want more artistic control within Flow, with increased support for audio across…
Earlier this year, we mentioned that we’re bringing computer use capabilities to developers via the Gemini API. Today, we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, our new specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro’s visual understanding and reasoning capabilities that powers agents capable of interacting with user interfaces (UIs). It outperforms leading alternatives…
We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy. Source link
Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, in is “real financial jeopardy,” according to a missive from its board members. Among other cost-cutting measures, it said, it has “parted ways” with its executive director, Shan Cureton, as well as its “PR agency, our CFO, and concluded several contractor engagements.” Board members…
Today in the Gemini app, we’re unveiling a new image editing model from Google DeepMind. People have been going bananas over it already in early previews — it’s the top-rated image editing model in the world. Now, we’re excited to share that it’s integrated into the Gemini app so you have more control than ever…