Sunday, January 04, 2026

Google AI 2025 review

From key AI people from Google, many interesting things...

2025 year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs | LinkedIn

This article was written by Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Demis Hassabis, CEO Google DeepMind and James Manyika, SVP Research, Labs, Technology & Society.



YouTube games: Playables

New for me: YouTube (for a while) now has "games"

As if intriguing videos ware not enough (attention => time wasted => $15B profit),
now they are promoting "shorts" videos that could not even be speed up, like TikTok,
and even those short "games", to waste even more time from people.

Like smoking, and then sugar drinks, such empty entertainments should be banned or taxed.  

But they will likely be not. Pleasing human / animal nature makes profit for some.

Like Adobe Flash in early days of web... different platform, same objective.
I would be surprised if AI was not used, or baked in, those "new" games.

Playables are now on YouTube - More than 75 games are now available to play directly on YouTube : r/Games

Playables are now on YouTube - YouTube Blog


Color Water Sort 3D - YouTube