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Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options In AI Search
Google decided to "silently update," with "no public announcement" about how they were using publishers' data, according to the document, written by Chetna Bindra, a product management executive at Google Search
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Google’s Pichai Says US Fix Is ‘De Facto’ Spinoff of Search
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge that the DoJ's plan to share Google's search data with rivals would be a “de facto” divestiture of the company’s search engine. Pichai was called to testify as part of a three-week trial aimed at determining how Google should restore competition to online search.
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Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says
Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), estimates CEO of rival search engine, DuckDuckGo. Weinberg, who said the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math based on Chrome’s user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJ’s case against Alphabet’s Google to determi...
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Google Urges DOJ to Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company
Representatives for the Alphabet unit asked the government in a meeting last week to take a less aggressive stance as the US looks to end what a judge ruled to be an illegal online search monopoly, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the private deliberations.
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Google Adds Gemini Team to DeepMind in AI Streamlining Push
Google is moving the team behind its Gemini AI assistant app to its DeepMind research lab. Over the last six months, Google has been consolidating its AI-focused teams, seeking to improve the Gemini models to challenge the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Google Cloud, Research Units Collaborate to Speed AI Development
Collaboration between Google Cloud and the company’s research arm, Google DeepMind, can help accelerate product to market, executives said. That’s important as investors press parent company Alphabet Inc. to show how AI investments can turn into new business.
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Elon Musks Grok Is A Risky Experiment In AI Content Moderation
Musk has been a champion of AI without much intervention, vocally criticizing tools from OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google as too "woke."
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Nears Billionaire Status Amid AI Boom
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is on the cusp of achieving a rare milestone for a non-founder tech executive: a 10-figure fortune.
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28 Google Employees Oppose Deal With Israel, Fired
Alphabet Inc.s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services.
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Google Lays Off Hundreds Of Staff From Hardware, Voice Assistant Teams
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is laying off hundreds of staff working on its digital assistant, hardware and engineering teams, the company said as it continues its drive to cut costs.
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YouTube Announces AI-Enabled Editing Products for Video Creators
YouTube will roll out a slew of artificial-intelligence-powered features for creators, the latest effort from parent company Alphabet to incorporate generative AI — technology that can create and synthesize text, images, music and other media given simple prompts — into its most important products and services.
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People Who Train Google's AI Chatbot Are "Scared, Stressed, Underpaid"
Google's Bard AI chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors.
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Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features
Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com. The Alphabet-owned company announced features Wednesday aimed at helping people understand how apparel will fit on them, no matter their body size, and added capabilities for finding products using its search and image-recognition te...
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Google Employees Push Back On Three-Day Return-To-Office Mandate
Google employees are pushing back against the tech giant's mandate that staffers spend at least three days a week in the office.
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AI Chatbots Have Generated Dozens Of News Websites, Raising Fraud Alarm
The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online, according to a report published Monday, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.
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Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options In AI Search
Google decided to "silently update," with "no public announcement" about how they were using publishers' data, according to the document, written by Chetna Bindra, a product management executive at Google Search
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Google’s Pichai Says US Fix Is ‘De Facto’ Spinoff of Search
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge that the DoJ's plan to share Google's search data with rivals would be a “de facto” divestiture of the company’s search engine. Pichai was called to testify as part of a three-week trial aimed at determining how Google should restore competition to online search.
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Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says
Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), estimates CEO of rival search engine, DuckDuckGo. Weinberg, who said the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math based on Chrome’s user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJ’s case against Alphabet’s Google to determi...
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Google Urges DOJ to Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company
Representatives for the Alphabet unit asked the government in a meeting last week to take a less aggressive stance as the US looks to end what a judge ruled to be an illegal online search monopoly, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the private deliberations.
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Google Adds Gemini Team to DeepMind in AI Streamlining Push
Google is moving the team behind its Gemini AI assistant app to its DeepMind research lab. Over the last six months, Google has been consolidating its AI-focused teams, seeking to improve the Gemini models to challenge the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Google Cloud, Research Units Collaborate to Speed AI Development
Collaboration between Google Cloud and the company’s research arm, Google DeepMind, can help accelerate product to market, executives said. That’s important as investors press parent company Alphabet Inc. to show how AI investments can turn into new business.
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Elon Musks Grok Is A Risky Experiment In AI Content Moderation
Musk has been a champion of AI without much intervention, vocally criticizing tools from OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google as too "woke."
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Nears Billionaire Status Amid AI Boom
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is on the cusp of achieving a rare milestone for a non-founder tech executive: a 10-figure fortune.
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28 Google Employees Oppose Deal With Israel, Fired
Alphabet Inc.s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services.
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Google Lays Off Hundreds Of Staff From Hardware, Voice Assistant Teams
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is laying off hundreds of staff working on its digital assistant, hardware and engineering teams, the company said as it continues its drive to cut costs.
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YouTube Announces AI-Enabled Editing Products for Video Creators
YouTube will roll out a slew of artificial-intelligence-powered features for creators, the latest effort from parent company Alphabet to incorporate generative AI — technology that can create and synthesize text, images, music and other media given simple prompts — into its most important products and services.
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People Who Train Google's AI Chatbot Are "Scared, Stressed, Underpaid"
Google's Bard AI chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors.
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Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features
Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com. The Alphabet-owned company announced features Wednesday aimed at helping people understand how apparel will fit on them, no matter their body size, and added capabilities for finding products using its search and image-recognition te...
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Google Employees Push Back On Three-Day Return-To-Office Mandate
Google employees are pushing back against the tech giant's mandate that staffers spend at least three days a week in the office.
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AI Chatbots Have Generated Dozens Of News Websites, Raising Fraud Alarm
The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online, according to a report published Monday, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.
