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It's yet another tool that students have available to them, and one that probably will scare teachers who worry about AI being used for cheating even more.
Google AI-powered search worried content creators because it slurped up content that others had created and passed it off as its own work, with some minimal footnotes to point back at the original authors. Deep Research takes this to another level.
Deep Research takes a prompt and first crafts a research plan, according to Google. Instead of immediately setting out to craft a report, it will first ask you to approve the general outline of the plan. Only then will it set out to actually craft the report, properly footnoted. An example graphic showed Deep Research basically taking the results from over 48 websites and collating them into a finished report.
What's interesting is that Google apparently revamps its report on the fly, crafting updated drafts as it uncovers new information — like a human might. Google's example says that the report takes a "few minutes" to finish up.
"Over the course of a few minutes, Gemini continuously refines its analysis, browsing the web the way you do: searching, finding interesting pieces of information, and then starting a new search based on what it's learned,"
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Donald Trump has named current commissioner Andrew Ferguson as the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair, the president-elect posted on Truth Social. Ferguson has previously decried what he called censorship by big tech and worked as an antitrust enforcer for the FTC and Department of Justice.
"At the FTC, we will end Big Tech's vendetta against competition and free speech," Ferguson wrote on X. "We will make sure that America is the world's technological leader and the best place for innovators to bring new ideas to life."
Ferguson will take over from Linda Khan, who drew the ire of big tech by launching antitrust cases against Apple and Google, while also blocking a number of multi-billion-dollar corporate mergers. Under her hand, the FTC has gone after large companies of all stripes over concerns that large mergers would undermine competition and harm consumers with higher prices.
Ferguson's pitch for the job reportedly included plans to "reverse Lina Khan's anti-business agenda" and "hold big tech accountable and stop censorship," according to Punchbowl News. However, he stated that the agency should continue its strong scrutiny of the dominance of large tech firms, according to The New York Times' sources.
With Khan leaving her post as FTC chair, Trump also appointed Mark Meador as commissioner, which will result in a Republican majority on the five-person commission. Trump previously
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