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TechCrunch 2 months ago 36 ● 2 sources
Google will allow users to turn off the visible watermark on Gemini AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The setting will be available for the Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. The visible watermark becomes optional while invisible SynthID watermarking and C2PA metadata remain for content labeling and transparency.
TechCrunch 2 months ago 17
Hyperscalers including Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are building large natural-gas power plants to supply their AI data centers, and a research report warns that this could expose them to higher gas price risk. Natural gas prices could triple in some U.S. hubs, with Noreva forecasting levels above $10 per million BTUs versus roughly $2 to $4.50 now. If that happens, data-center operating costs and token costs could rise, or hyperscalers may shift more load to the electricity grid, pushing up electricity prices.
The Verge 2 months ago 8 ● 2 sources
Google is adding a toggle in Gemini and Flow to let users turn off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music. The option removes the bottom-right “sparkle” watermark that appears when using the Nano Banana and Omni models. Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata will still be embedded even when visible watermarks are disabled.
The Neuron 2 months ago 2 ● 2 sources
Google, OpenAI, and DeepSeek released new AI models within about 24 hours. OpenAI’s Ultrafast preview runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster. The shift pushes providers and buyers toward lower-cost, faster options rather than always paying for the “smartest” model.
Trending Topics 2 months ago 41 ● 8 sources
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, a Flash-line model aimed at enterprise coding, agent workflows, and document processing. Until December 31, 2026 it is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, with a planned doubling of list prices to $1.50 and $7.50 on January 1, 2027 and retroactive discounts for Gemini 3.6 Flash. As a result, API costs for Flash usage drop through year-end, while evaluations continue to show mixed benchmark performance versus rivals.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft used today’s announcement to zoom in on what matters in scaling: not just raw capability, but the plumbing behind it. The company revealed MAI-Base-2, a 2T-parameter base model designed to be converted into full LLMs with additional training. Per Microsoft, only 80B parameters activate per prompt, and the training run ate 50T tokens over 38 days using 16,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs. The headline claim: MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient than its predecessors, a metric that will matter to anyone trying to keep inference costs from swallowing margin.
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