Bard

Google plans to make a major update to its AI tool Bard this week, according to a recently leaked document. The update hasn't been officially announced yet, but it's rumored to include renaming Bard to Gemini. The change makes sense, as Google launched a new multimodal AI model called Gemini at the end of 2023 and has already begun to integrate it into some of its products, including Bard, which makes sense to rename it for simplicity's sake. The leaked document was created by Android app developer Dylan Rous...

Google today announced that its chatbot Bard has taken a big step forward in its capabilities, now able to generate images in addition to its previous language processing skills. Bard's new image generation capabilities will be available for free in supported regions around the world, powered by Google's Imagen 2 model, but require English instructions. Users can now generate custom images based on the descriptions provided to Bard. Google promises that Bard can provide "high-quality, realistic image output." Google also said that both Imagen 2 and Bard use "…

Google filed a lawsuit in court on Monday, alleging that fake ads for its generative AI tool "Bard" that appeared on Facebook were designed to steal the social media accounts of small businesses in the United States. These fake Facebook ads tricked users into downloading "Bard", but in fact "Bard" is a completely web-based product and does not require downloading. Naive users actually downloaded malware, causing their social media credentials to be stolen and their accounts to be threatened. The purpose of Google's lawsuit is to disable any current domains associated with this trap and block…