Silicon Valley donations make Colorado Democratic primary one of state’s most expensive

Google's new feature enhances content accessibility and engagement, potentially transforming how users interact with and disseminate information. The post Google’s NotebookLM now generates 60-second vertical videos from your notes appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The crypto industry, big tech and gambling interest groups are betting big on politicians in the 2026 primaries and elections, with almost $300 million shelled out so far.

Google's AI growth highlights the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions as emissions rise, potentially impacting regulatory and financial landscapes. The post Google’s AI expansion drives surge in emissions and power use appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Insider Brief Google researchers say an AI system built to review scientific papers found nearly 90% of certain mathematical and computer science errors in a benchmark of flawed manuscripts, pointing to a possible new role for AI in easing the strain on peer review. The system, called the Paper Assistant Tool, or PAT, is designed […]

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls “enthusiastic” rock climbing. The eldest son of a Greek management professor and a British documentary maker, Gabriel split his time between teaching and international development work. At the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at St John’s College, Gabriel taught courses on political theory and wrote papers on the moral contortions of “yuppie ethics” and the ethical blind spots of effective altruism. When

Insider Brief Proception has raised $11 million in seed funding and launched ProHand 1.0, a robotic hand designed to give humanoids and other robots more human-like control when handling objects. According to the Silicon Valley startup, the round was led by First Round Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and BoxGroup. Proception said the funding […]

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.