A Google executive told an Australian inquiry that a video smearing a shooting survivor as a “crisis actor” meets YouTube’s standards. So it stays online. Google has defended keeping up a conspiracy video about a mass shooting in Sydney, the Associated Press reports. The clip falsely paints a wounded survivor of the antisemitic massacre as […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Late last year, Australia passed a law banning social media for all people under 16 years old. Now, some of those companies — namely Meta, TikTok and Snap — are not happy at one exception: YouTube [...]
Today is one of the most important days on the tech calendar as Google kicked off its I/O developer event with its annual keynote. As ever, the company had many updates for a wide range of products to [...]
Eliza McNitt is no stranger to new media. Her 2017 project, Fistful of Stars, was a fascinating look at stellar birth in virtual reality, while her follow-up Spheres explored black holes and the deat [...]
Google is facing a lawsuit over its AI-generated search summaries, just as the company insists it wants to maintain a balance between traditional links and AI overviews. For some publishers, though, t [...]
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday, a new artificial intelligence model that the company says shatters what had become a seemingly iron law of the AI in [...]
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audi [...]
YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg. The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules [...]