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Last November, Google began using AI to generate review summaries in Google Maps. Well, now they seem to be showing up in the local knowledge panels on the right side of the Google Search results page. These are summaries of the business, not review summaries.Amy Toman spotted this and posted about it on Bluesky – she wrote:Saw a couple of fun new elements on a GBP this morning: an AI-generated summary, and the option to report it. The summary is nicely detailed, and the option to report it will be very helpful over time (I’ve had a lot of business…

Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: With tariffs fostering price increases and economic uncertainty, retail sales in 2025 should grow between 2.7% and 3.7%, reaching $5.4 trillion to $5.5 trillion, the National Retail Federation said Wednesday. A relatively strong labor market is helping align the upper end of the forecast with last year’s 3.6% annual sales growth (to $5.3 trillion); that also matches the average annual growth of the decade before the pandemic, the group said. The NRF expects GDP growth in 2025 to be down…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Siobhán Mc Feeney, chief technology and digital officer at Kohl’s, departed the company on Wednesday after nearly three years in the role, according to a Tuesday securities filing.  Mc Feeney, who joined the firm in 2020 as SVP of technology, rose to the C-suite in 2022 after the departure of Paul Gaffney, who at the time served as chief technology and supply chain officer. “We thank Siobhán for her leadership and wish her all the best in her future endeavors,”…

Google has added a new feature to NotebookLM that lets the AI note-taking tool find its own web sources to summarize and narrate. Instead of manually uploading sources like documents or YouTube links, users can now tap the “Discover” button and simply describe the topic they want to get a better understanding of, with the tool then gathering web sources around the subject.Google says the Discover feature started rolling out on Wednesday, and will take “about a week or so” to be available to all users.NotebookLM will hunt through “hundreds of potential web sources in seconds” according to Google, analyzing…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. will implement a universal baseline tariff of 10%, effective Saturday, and increase tariff rates on various countries, President Donald Trump announced at the White House Wednesday. The president said that certain trading partners such as China, Japan and the European Union will be subject to higher duties than the baseline rate, effective April 9. Those countries will face levies equal to half of a calculated total of trade barriers, including tariffs and value-added taxes, Trump said is imposed on the U.S. by…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The sleeping giant has awoken! For a while, it seemed like Amazon was playing catchup in the race to offer its users — particularly the millions of developers building atop Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s cloud infrastructure — compelling first-party AI models and tools. But in late 2024, it debuted its own internal foundation model family, Amazon Nova, with text, image and even video generation capabilities, and last month saw a new Amazon Alexa voice assistant powered in part by Anthropic’s Claude…

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream. Others, including major AI labs like Anthropic, warn that it’s around the corner, and could result in catastrophic harms if steps aren’t taken to implement appropriate safeguards. DeepMind’s 145-page document, which was co-authored by DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, predicts that AGI could arrive by 2030, and that it may result in…

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