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Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor

May 10, 2023

At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services, as well as AI-assisted coding in Google’s no-code AppSheet product. At the core of virtually all of these new […]

Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Google introduces new features to help identify AI images in Search and elsewhere

May 10, 2023

Google is taking its first steps toward combatting the potential for misinformation arising from AI-generated images. At its I/O developer event this afternoon, the company announced two new features coming to Google Search that aim to help people better understand the content and the context of the image they’re viewing in the search results. This […]

Google introduces new features to help identify AI images in Search and elsewhere by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard

May 10, 2023

Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is getting new generative AI capabilities courtesy of Adobe. Adobe announced today that Firefly, its recently introduced collection of AI models for generating media content, is coming to Bard alongside Adobe’s free graphic design tool, Adobe Express. Firefly — currently in public beta — will become the “premier generative […]

Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI

May 10, 2023

Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI for its tools like the distraction-removing Magic Eraser and corrective Photo Unblur features in Photos, it’s now turning to AI for more complex edits with the introduction of Magic Editor. The new […]

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral

May 10, 2023

Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China’s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn’t released an album since 2017, comes not from the artist having another moment of genius. The songs that have attracted millions of views on Bilibili feature Sun’s voice cloned by […]

China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

AWS open sources fuzzing tool SnapChange and policy-based access control language Cedar

May 10, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new open source projects today, a move designed in part to address concerns around software supply chain security. The Amazon cloud computing subsidiary revealed that it’s open sourcing a new fuzzing tool called SnapChange and a recently-launched authorization policy language and SDK called Cedar. Supply chain With the […]

AWS open sources fuzzing tool SnapChange and policy-based access control language Cedar by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch