Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Google DeepMind has paired two of its newest artificial intelligence systems into a single training engine: a world model called Genie 3 that turns a text prompt into a navigable 3D environment, and a ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

The Alphabet-owned company is using Google’s Genie world-building AI model to generate a variety of simulated ‘edge cases.’ The Alphabet-owned company is using Google’s Genie world-building AI model ...

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” ...

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

Google is showcasing Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lighter-weight addition to its suite that offers cutting-edge capabilities. The company announced a new world model called Omni. Google is racing to keep up ...

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top ...

LLMs, or large language models, are the technological foundation of today's AI. Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini use LLMs to create the natural-sounding text you see on your screen. But LLMs may ...