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Brightband is a newly launched startup, created by former Google exec, is looking to reshape weather forecasting using AI. Their goal is to develop faster, more accurate predictions that can be accessed by different industries. With both open-source tools and tailored solutions for businesses, Brightband intends to make weather data more useful and precise.

The company has secured $10 million in Series A funding to bring together experts in AI and meteorology. By simplifying how weather data is processed, they hope for specific forecasts for industries such as energy, agriculture, and transportation.

The startup shared on their announcement, “We’re beginning our journey with a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Starshot…

Google is taking steps to better integrate Gemini, its generative AI model, into Android. 

At today’s Made by Google event, where Google unveiled the Pixel 9 series, the tech giant also took some time to announce how Android is reimagining what your phone can do with Gemini. That includes new ways to interact with Gemini on Android, like using the AI assistant to ask questions about anything that’s on your phone screen. 

Google also talked about Gemini Nano, its large, on-device multimodal AI model made specifically for the Pixel, and how any personal data processed in the cloud or on-device is kept safe and private.

And Circle to Search, which allows you to draw on your screen to quickly perform a visual search, has a new share feature that allows you to circle a selection and share…

Search engines have come a really long way from a development, features and speed point of view. With the first search engine, Archie being created in the 1990s, and the most popular being Google, users now have a range of options to pick from.

Stat Counter reports that as of June this year, Google has a market share of 94.15% in the UK. Also, according to IBIS, the UK search engine industry is estimated to be worth £5.1bn this year, making it a growing market. Startups and big tech alike are working together to. make accessing information a less tedious process.

Google’s GenAI Ventures

Google announced not long ago this year that they will be incorporating the newest big technology, artificial intelligence, into their famous Search. The announcement went into detail…

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is leaning further in to artificial intelligence, with a new test feature that summarizes search results for users. The move comes months after Google pumped the brakes on its AI summaries after the feature spread conspiracy theories and dangerous health advice.

The new feature, which Microsoft is calling Bing generative search, uses generative AI technology to create new results pages that provide summarized answers that are “easy to read and understand,” with links and sources listed alongside the generated text.

Read more: OpenAI Just Announced a Search Engine, SearchGPT, but There’s a Catch

“We’ve refined our methods to optimize accuracy in Bing,” Microsoft said while announcing the new feature on Wednesday and emphasizing that it’s still in…