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 Slashdot -  A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website. For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023.

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USA Today -  Gemini, Google's language model that powers its Gemini AI chatbot and other multimodal tools, is expanding into other apps and features in the coming months, the tech company announced earlier this week at their annual developer conference, Google I/O. "Gemini used to be just a chatbot, and now we're seeing it become a personal AI assistant" says Amar Subramanya, vice president of engineering for Gemini experiences, in an interview with USA TODAY. "We think that's super powerful going from some relatively basic commands that you could issue to the assistant t o now having the power of this large language model with all of its reasoning capabilities and then combining that with all of the Google apps and services." While some of the updates will initially roll out for developers and Gemini Advanced subscribers, one change might be more noticeable to most Google users: Gemini summaries appearing in default search results.  MORE