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Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature↗

Google launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users create their own games using nothing but text prompts and no coding skills. The platform runs on Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria. Alongside Playground, Google and Unity announced Unity Spark, a more professional AI tool with a beta planned for 2026. The article Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature appeared first on The Decoder .

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Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior↗

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first dataset should be ready in about a year. The article Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior appeared first on The Decoder .

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Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public↗

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carry the watermark, but the tool only identifies SynthID-tagged content, not AI-generated media in general. The article Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public appeared first on The Decoder .

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