Google In 2023

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  Google Announces SynthID Detector That Can Identify Gemini-Generated Content at Google I/O 2025

  Google I/O 2025 keynote session on Tuesday was focused on new artificial intelligence (AI) updates and features. Alongside, the Mountain View-based tech giant also introduced a new tool to bring more transparency when it comes to AI-generated content. Dubbed SynthID Detector, it is an under-testing verification portal which can detect and identify ...

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  Nothing Phone 3 Price, Launch Timeline Teased by Nothing CEO Carl Pei Ahead of Google I/O 2025

  Nothing Phone 3 price and launch timeline details were teased by Nothing CEO Carl Pei at Google I/O 2025. Not much is known about the premium Nothing Phone 3, which is expected to arrive as the successor to the Nothing Phone 2. Nothing has managed to keep its upcoming smartphone a well-guarded secret. The Nothing Phone 2 was launched in 2023, and s...

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  Microsoft to Lay Off Around Three Percent of Workforce in Organisation-Wide Cuts

  Microsoft said on Tuesday it was laying off less than three percent of its workforce, or around 6,000 employees. The cuts will be across all levels and geographies and are likely the largest since Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees in 2023.

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  Google Cuts About 200 Staff in Global Business Unit: Report

  Google has cut about 200 jobs across its global business unit. Big Tech players have been redirecting spending towards data centers and AI development, while scaling back investments in other areas.

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  Google’s AI-Powered ‘Help Me Write’ Tool in Gmail Will Now Support More Languages

  Google is expanding the supported language in Gmail’s Gemini-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ‘Help me write. ’ Announced on Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant will now help users with different native languages access the feature to write and refine email drafts with the help of AI. The tool was first unveiled at Google I/O...

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  Apple Loses Top Court Fight Against German Antitrust Crackdown

  Apple's footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight, judges at Germany’s top civil court have said. The setback for Apple comes amid a clamor by Big Tech against European efforts to rein in their market dominance.

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  YouTube Shorts Now Supports Veo 2 AI Model, Lets Users Create Standalone AI-Generated Videos

  YouTube added a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for the creators on the platform on Thursday. The video streaming platform announced that Google’s Veo 2 AI model is being integrated with the Dream Screen feature. The new video generation model also adds the capability for users to generate standalone AI-generated videos.

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  Epic Games Ramps Up Apple, Google Fight With Third-Party Game Titles

  Epic Games Inc. is adding games from third parties to its new mobile marketplace. The titles represent the first batch of mobile games from outside developers to appear on the Epic Games Store, the company said Thursday.

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  Nothing Said to Raise Funding, Crosses $1 Billion in Lifetime Sales

  Nothing is seeking to raise at least $100 million in funding to expand its operations, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The startup is run by Carl Pei, one of the creators of OnePlus, a popular China-based phone maker.

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  Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More

  If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...

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  Google Chrome Doubles Speedometer Benchmark Scores on Android Devices

  Google Chrome runs twice as fast on Android smartphones than it did in April 2023, according to the company. According to Google, Chrome will now run even faster, especially on Android devices, after it recently doubled its score on the popular Speedometer benchmark test. Here's how Google optimised Chrome to run faster on Android phones.

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  Xiaomi 14T Series to Come With AI-Powered Circle to Search and Other Features: Report

  Xiaomi 14T series is scheduled to launch on September 26 in Berlin. Arriving as a successor to the Xiaomi 13T series that debuted in November 2023, the company’s latest smartphones may offer artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities including Circle to Search – Google’s visual lookup tool that it introduced with the Galaxy S24 series in Janua...

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  Google Pixel Phones With Temperature Sensor Get Support for Body Temperature Measurement in Europe

  Google Pixel users in Europe will now be able to measure their body temperature. This feature works by leveraging the Pixel Thermometer app and the temperature sensor that Google introduced with its Pixel 8 Pro last year. The sensor is also available in the new Pixel 9 Pro lineup. While its capabilities were initially limited to measuring the tempe...

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  YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels for Deal to Train AI Song Generator

  YouTube is reportedly in talks with multiple record labels to strike a deal that will let it use copyrighted songs to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Google-owned platform is said to be working on several new AI features that it plans to release by the end of this year. Last year, the video streaming platform announced testing an ...

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  YouTube Cracks Down on Third-Party Ad Blockers by Automatically Skipping Videos to the End: Report

  YouTube has initiated another crackdown on third-party ad blockers on its platform in an effort to tackle the prolonged problem, according to a report. Users with ad blockers enabled are reportedly facing a new issue – video automatically skipping to the end, building upon other efforts to tackle ad blockers.