Google Gemini is Google's family of multimodal AI models. Recent coverage includes UC Santa Barbara rolling out Gemini through its UCSB AI Commons platform for secure access to commercial and open-source models, and a Paris experiment in which Gemini, along with OpenAI/Astra, Perplexity, DeepSeek and xAI/Grok, analyzed each other's readings of the same book. Stories also covered universities managing AI costs and data protection under consumption-based pricing.
UC Santa Barbara Takes 'Base Camp' Approach to AIUC Santa Barbara has rolled out Google Gemini and the UCSB AI Commons platform, featuring a multi-vendor, multi-model framework that gives the campus community secure access to commercial and open-source models within privacy boundaries.
US launches AI federal services portal America.govThe Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered portal led by Airbnb co-founder and US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, to serve as a 'front door' to federal services. Users can ask questions in plain language, aiming to bypass more than 10,000 forms. A first version is live, with expansion planned in coming weeks and months.
Higher ed AI cost control without curbing innovationAs AI services shift to consumption-based pricing, universities must control costs and protect data while preserving faculty autonomy, research computing and broad student access. UNLV offers tiered data-protection services and Notre Dame unites tools, policies and training via AI@ND.
Art Book Experiment Has Multiple AI Models Read Each OtherA Paris experiment gives the same book to OpenAI/Astra, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Google Gemini and xAI/Grok, then has each model analyze the others' interpretations to observe convergences, divergences and blind spots. Launched alongside the book 'Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,' it uses a book to better understand AI.
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