Italy creates AI assistant to help Italians assess landslide risks

Italy creates AI assistant to help Italians assess landslide risks

More than a million people in Italy live in areas at high or very high risk of landslides and climate change is likely to lead to more of them, a public research body said on Wednesday, announcing a new AI assistant to help them assess the risk. Climate change is increasing the frequency of stronger […]

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Google I/0 2025: From AI filmmaking tool to coding agent, everything announced at Google’s dev conference

Google I/0 2025: From AI filmmaking tool to coding agent, everything announced at Google’s dev conference

Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicked off on Tuesday, May 20, with an opening keynote that was mostly AI all the way. In a long stream of announcements, the search giant drew the curtains back on the new AI products it has been working on over the past few months, including an AI tool for […]

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms launches standalone AI assistant app

Facebook parent Meta Platforms launches standalone AI assistant app

Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a separate app for its Meta AI assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. The standalone app comes as Meta looks to boost the AI assistant’s usage, apart from being available within the company’s family of platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. It […]

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Perplexity says it would buy Chrome if Google is forced to divest over antitrust ruling

Perplexity says it would buy Chrome if Google is forced to divest over antitrust ruling

AI-driven search startup Perplexity is prepared to buy Chrome from Google if the search giant is forced to sell it by a US federal court. The Amazon-backed startup’s chief business officer, Dmitry Shevelenko, testified in court that Perplexity could take on the project of running Chrome without diminishing its quality or charging for it. The […]

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