An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.

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 ...

While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn’t stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a big pile of inference.