At Google I/O 2024, Google announced AI-generated quizzes for educational videos on YouTube. The conversational AI tool allows viewers to ask questions, get explanations, or take quizzes on subject matter. The feature works with longer videos, thanks to the Gemini model's long-context capabilities.

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Autonomous vehicle company Motional has laid off around 550 employees, representing 40% of its workforce, amid restructuring efforts. The company is pausing commercial operations and delaying its robotaxi service launch until 2026.

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Google's Gemini AI will integrate with Android and Google apps, allowing users to pull up the Gemini overlay on top of apps and update the Android built-in AI model, Gemini Nano. This integration enables users to drag and drop AI-generated images.

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Google announced Firebase Genkit, an open-source framework for building AI-powered applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Go support coming soon. The framework aims to make it easier for developers to integrate AI into new and existing applications.

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Google announced at the Google I/O 2024 conference that it will integrate Gemini Nano into its TalkBack accessibility feature, enabling image description capabilities. This integration aims to make Android more accessible to users, leveraging Gemini Nano's generative AI capabilities to run entirely on-device.

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Google announced Gemma 2, the next generation of its Gemma models, with a 27 billion parameter model launching in June. The company also introduced PaliGemma, a pre-trained Gemma variant for image captioning, labeling, and more, available now.

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Google previewed a feature at its I/O 2024 conference that utilizes Gemini Nano, a generative AI, to alert users to potential scams during calls. The feature will be built into a future version of Android, aiming to improve call security and protect users from fraudulent activities.

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Google announced the open beta of Project IDX, an AI-centric browser-based development environment, at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. Over 100,000 developers have already tried the service, which aims to simplify the deployment of AI technologies.

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Google announced at Google I/O 2024 that Gemini model capabilities are coming to the Google Maps platform, starting with the Places API. This allows developers to show generative AI summaries of places and areas in their apps and websites, based on insights from Google Maps' 300 million contributors.

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Google has announced that Gmail will soon feature AI-powered summarization and drafting tools, allowing users to search, summarize, and draft emails. The new features will also enable automated tasks, such as processing e-commerce returns. The updates were showcased at Google's I/O 2024 conference.

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