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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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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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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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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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ChatGPT-Like AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create 49 News Websites: NewsGuard Report
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's Rush to Take Its AI Chatbot Bard Public Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
Google, the trusted internet-search giant, is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition, while giving less priority to its ethical commitments, according to 18 current and former workers at the company and internal documentation reviewed by Bloomberg.
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US Big Tech Companies Struggle To Reduce Headcount In Europe. Here's Why
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.
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Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything
Google has worked on AI powered technology for years, but the search giant has been left sprinting to catch up with a startup called OpenAI that has now emerged as a challenger to the company's traditional search engine. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Sundar Pichai have gotten more involved with the effort to catch up...
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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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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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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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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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ChatGPT-Like AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create 49 News Websites: NewsGuard Report
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's Rush to Take Its AI Chatbot Bard Public Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
Google, the trusted internet-search giant, is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition, while giving less priority to its ethical commitments, according to 18 current and former workers at the company and internal documentation reviewed by Bloomberg.
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US Big Tech Companies Struggle To Reduce Headcount In Europe. Here's Why
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.
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Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything
Google has worked on AI powered technology for years, but the search giant has been left sprinting to catch up with a startup called OpenAI that has now emerged as a challenger to the company's traditional search engine. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Sundar Pichai have gotten more involved with the effort to catch up...
