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Google on Thursday announced the second cohort to take part in its AI Academy: American Infrastructure, which seeks to support companies using AI to address issues such as cybersecurity, education, and transportation.

Among the announcements were a new Agent Gallery to find and deploy new agents quickly, as well as a tool to create agents with the new no-code Agent Designer platform, and Agent2Agent, a new interoperability protocol which will allow AI agents to communicate with each other.

The acquihire-on-steroids trend is unique to this tech boom, and could have big implications for current and future AI founders.

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding the ability for paid users of its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant to turn their photos into short video clips, expanding access to a to

Google also announced that, starting with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7, you’ll be able to long-press the power button and have Gemini take a gander at your screen while you’re scrolling. With live access to what you’re looking at, you can ask Gemini for help on stuff like product comparisons. Per Google:

Google's AI investments are primarily in technical infrastructure, Google APAC head of AI and emerging tech policy Eunice Huang said on Wednesday.

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Baird analyst Colin Sebastian joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon, Google, and Meta’s AI strategies, tech investing trends, and how today’s AI boom compares to the dot-com era.