Need a research assistant to help you distill dense, complex material? AI-powered Illuminate transforms published papers into audio discussions.

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.

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'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.

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.

Google is leveraging Anthropic's AI model Claude for performance benchmarking and for evaluating Gemini's outputs against those generated by Claude.

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

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

Google is planning to add a new “AI Mode” to its search engine, according to a report from The Information. The company will reportedly display an option to switch to AI Mode from the top of the results page, allowing you to access an interface similar to its Gemini AI chatbot.

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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.

Google Search might get a Gemini-based AI Mode soon that lets you perform online searches similar to ChatGPT Search.