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Jul 24, 2025

Google's latest AI features are now reaching billions of users each month.

AI Overviews, which display AI-generated summaries directly in Google Search, have rolled out to over 200 countries and now serve two billion monthly users. For searches where this feature appears, Google is seeing more than a 10% increase in search activity.

The Gemini app has reached 450 million monthly active users, with daily requests up more than 50% compared to the previous quarter. The new AI Mode, a chat interface built into Search, has already surpassed 100 million monthly active users in the US and India.

Google's text-to-video model Veo 3 has been used to generate over 70 million videos since May. The Google Vids tool, built on Veo, now approaches one million monthly active users.

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 23, 2025

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Update: Registration is now open. Places will be allocated by lottery.

OpenAI has set the date for its next DevDay: October 6, 2025, in San Francisco. With over 1,500 developers expected, the company says that this will be the largest event of its kind so far. The agenda includes a live-streamed keynote, hands-on workshops featuring the latest models and tools, and more stages and demos than last year. Details are still under wraps, but you can sign up for updates here.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Jul 23, 2025

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Sam Altman warns: AI has already broken common authentication methods – and banks aren’t responding.

“A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept a voice print as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else — you say a challenge phrase, and they just do it,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a Federal Reserve event. “That is a crazy thing to still be doing… AI has fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords.”

Altman spoke of a “significant, impending fraud crisis” and emphasized that AI-driven voice and video spoofing is already a real risk – with potentially dramatic consequences for the financial sector.

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 23, 2025

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Pew finds that only 1 percent of users click a source link directly from Google's AI Overviews

Maximilian Schreiner

Jul 22, 2025

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Google’s Gemini 2.5 now supports "conversational image segmentation"

Maximilian Schreiner

Jul 22, 2025

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OpenAI pushes ahead with Stargate as SoftBank remains absent from data center development

Matthias Bastian

Jul 22, 2025

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Google DeepMind's Gemini wins Mathematical Olympiad gold using only natural language

Matthias Bastian

Jul 21, 2025

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Yet another study finds that overloading LLMs with information leads to worse results

Matthias Bastian

Jul 19, 2025

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Netflix used generative AI to produce a VFX scene in its Argentinian series “El Eternauta,” co-CEO Ted Sarandos said during the company’s earnings call. The AI-assisted sequence was finished ten times faster than traditional methods and would have been too expensive to make otherwise, Sarandos said. Like every CEO, he claimed AI is meant to support creatives, not replace them. The scene also used virtual production tools.

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 19, 2025

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An OpenAI AI model placed second in the AtCoder Heuristics World Finals, an international competition for solving tough optimization problems. The model ran completely on its own for ten hours, competing under the same rules as human participants. After a strong start, it briefly lost the lead before catching up again, only to be overtaken at the last moment by veteran competitor FakePsyho.

OpenAI says this marks the first time an AI has cracked the top three in a major programming and math competition. OpenAI hasn't revealed which specific model it used. The competition itself was sponsored by the company.

Comment Source: Andre Saraiva