Google is once again crossing the great divide between rival tech giants, at least with artificial intelligence. The company has launched a dedicated iPad app for its Gemini AI assistant. In addition to natively running on Apple hardware, Gemini's iPad app can take advantage of the tablet's split view, so that the AI assistant is open on the screen at the same time as another program for easier use. The app is available today from the App Store in all countries where Gemini is currently available. Gemini has been a huge focus for Google's recent announcements as it works to put its service in front of more and more potential users. The company recently introduced a program for children to explore the AI assistant and it opened the Deep Research capability to all Gemini users.

The moment that Google fans have been waiting for is finally here, as the new Pixel 8 smartphone range has been unveiled. The tech giant has released two new smartphones – the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. The flagship devices have several impressive features including a 50MP main camera, a built-in thermometer, and a new best'Best Take' tool. But while the Pixel 8 is priced at £699, the Pixel 8 Pro has an eye-watering price tag of £999, making it one of Google's most expensive handsets yet. Here's everything you need to know about the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. The Pixel 8 features a 6.2-inch display while the Pixel 8 Pro is slightly larger, with a 6.7-inch display.

Google is attempting to reclaim its crown as the leader in artificial intelligence with PaLM 2, a "next-generation language model" that the company says outperforms other leading systems on some tasks. Revealing the cutting-edge AI at its annual I/O conference, alongside a foldable Pixel phone and a new tablet, Google said it would be built in to 25 new products and features, as the company races to catch up with competitors after years of producing AI research but few products. Like other "large language models" such as OpenAI's GPT, PaLM 2 is a general-purpose AI model, which can be used to power ChatGPT-style chatbots but also translate between languages, write computer code, or even analyse and respond to images. Combining those capabilities, a user could ask a question in English about a restaurant in Bulgaria, and the system would be able to search the web for Bulgarian responses, find an answer, translate the answer into English, add a picture of the location – and then follow up with a code snippet to create a database entry for the place. "The neural network revolution that we are now experiencing started around 10 years ago," said Slav Petrov, the co-lead of the PaLM 2 project, "and it started in part at Google."

Alphabet Inc.'s Google revealed a new range of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for its email and cloud applications, just before Microsoft was also set to make similar announcements. As tech giants recently launched advanced Chatbots for users, Alphabet INC also joined the bandwagon and launched a "Magic Wand" feature that can draft marketing content, training plan, or any other text on Google Docs. The company also highlighted that their new AI tool would be capable of summarizing all the messages in the Gmail thread, designing presentations, customizing customer outreach messages, make minutes of the meetings. Read More: Google unveils'magic wand' to draft documents as AI race tightens

Google on Monday launched its ChatGPT competitor called Bard. Bard is designed as an'experimental conversational AI service' that answers users' queries and participates in conversations. CEO Sundar Pichai announced a soft launch to select'trusted testers' to get feedback before a public release in the coming weeks. While Google has yet to release more details, the company shows that users can ask Bard queries, like'how to explain new discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old' or'plan a friend's baby shower.' The initial release of Bard uses the tech giant's lightweight model version of LaMDA, which requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users and allowing for more feedback.

"Each department had spent their own budget on a translation provider," Nathan says. "And they build and retain what is called its translation memory," meaning all the intelligence and experience accumulated from translating Avery documents (e.g., with the right word choice, technical terms, and tone). But all that knowledge was mostly stored in human brains, some of them outside the company. "If the translation provider had a person exiting [and] they brought in a new person, that's going to affect the quality of translations," Nathan says, noting that in the time Avery Dennison has used the Translation Hub (aided by some specialized language models trained on Avery-specific lingo) he's seen a 90% reduction in the company's translation costs. Google Translate launched in 2006 and was a purely consumer-facing product for a good six years. By 2012 Google realized that companies were trying to use the product for business documents, so it created an application programming interface (API) for the service.

… approved for dermatologists to use in the US, says Roxana Daneshjou, a Stanford dermatologist and researcher in machine learning and health.

Google is putting AI and machine learning technologies into the hands of journalists. The company this morning announced a suite of new tools, Journalist Studio, that will allow reporters to do their work more easily. At launch, the suite includes a host of existing tools as well as two new products aimed at helping reporters search across large documents and visualizing data. The first tool is called Pinpoint and is designed to help reporters work with large file sets -- like those that contain hundreds of thousands of documents. Pinpoint will work as an alternative to using the "Ctrl F" function to manually seek out specific keywords in the documents.

Recently, in an official announcement, Google launched an OpenCL-based mobile GPU inference engine for Android. The tech giant claims that the inference engine offers up to 2x speedup over the OpenGL backend on neural networks which include enough workload for the GPU. This GPU inference engine is currently made available in the latest version of TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) library. Open Graphics Library or OpenGL is an API designed for rendering vector graphics through which a client application can control this system. It is a popular software interface that allows a programmer to communicate with graphics hardware.

Google LLC said today that its Recommendations AI tool is now publicly available in public beta test mode. Recommendations AI was first announced in private beta in April 2019, and relies on Google's sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to help retailers deliver highly personalized recommendations to their customers. In a blog post, Google Product Manager Pallav Mehta said retailers can use the new tools to shift the emphasis from individual products to each customer, by serving each one with personalized product recommendations. Read more about Google Recommendations AI tool that was announced in private beta in April 2019, is now available in public beta on Silicon Angle.