Google’s Fourth of July Ad Places Gemini in the Room Where the Declaration of Independence Was Drafted

Goldman's AI hire signals a strategic shift in finance, emphasizing AI's growing role in enhancing security, compliance, and innovation. The post Goldman Sachs hires Evan Kotsovinos from Google as AI lead appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Vision Language Models, or VLMs, are AI models that can understand both visual content and language. While earlier models like CLIP and BLIP connected images with text, modern VLMs can analyze images, read documents, interpret charts, answer visual questions, and support multimodal conversations. Models like GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude Vision, and Qwen-VL are making visual AI […] The post Modern VLMs Explained: How GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude Vision, and Qwen-VL Work  appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and then Nano Banana whips up a seal for the United States featuring a turkey ( … Read the full story at The Verge.

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

On June 30, more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Circle’s most important ally, Coinbase, unveiled a stablecoin designed to give away the exact revenue stream Circle lives on. CRCL cratered 17% in a day and…

Coinbase is the brand AI engines most often recommend to a first-time buyer. Five brands are actively warned against — including FTX, Celsius, and Terra/Luna, years after collapse.  MIAMI, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 5W, the AI Communications Firm, today released The Crypto Trust Index 2026 — research scoring how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google … Continue reading "AI Is the New Crypto On-Ramp — and It Is Picking Winners. 5W Crypto Trust Index 2026 Scores 25 Brands by How AI Treats Them."

Interfaze open-sourced diffusion-gemma-asr-small, a multilingual ASR model that transcribes via diffusion, not autoregression. It adds audio to Google's frozen DiffusionGemma using a ~42M-parameter adapter. One adapter covers six languages, with transcription cost set by denoising steps, not transcript length. The post Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Microsoft's AI reorganization aims to enhance user integration and revenue, positioning it competitively against OpenAI and Google. The post Microsoft merges enterprise and consumer AI chatbots under one roof appeared first on Crypto Briefing.