Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it.

Fast Company fed 188 reports looking ahead to 2025 from a variety of industries into NotebookLM (because the tool has a limit of 50 sources per notebook, we were forced to divide it into four separate ones), then asked the chatbot to help pick out patterns in the information. What follows is a human-summarized version of AI’s analysis.

Google has just dropped a significant new security feature for Pixel 9 users—and for once, there’s no mention of AI. Here’s what you need to know.

Whisk is a “creative tool” for quick inspiration, Google said in a blog post, as opposed to a “traditional image editor.” In essence, Whisk is intended as a fun AI feature, rather than as something that’s supposed to be refined professional work.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

Google quietly unveiled another important AI innovation in 2024: NotebookLM. This experimental project took a different approach, focusing on personalized AI experiences tailored to individual needs. NotebookLM trains its AI on the data you provide and organizes your links, images, videos, notes, and documents into a simple notebook-like interface.

Google is integrating AI into its search, Nvidia is looking to investigate revenue from software services, and OpenAI is inking deals with news media organizations.

Google has released what it's calling a new "reasoning" AI model to rival OpenAI's o1 — but it's in the experimental stages.

The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.

Google also announced Whisk, an experimental AI that lets users upload multiple images to generate a remix. Users upload a photo of the subject, the scene, and the style, as well as writing text prompts and the software will create something new from the reference photos and text.

Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.