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  Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation Over AI Overviews, YouTube

  The European Commission's second investigation into Google in less than a month underscores growing unease over Big Tech's dominance in new technologies that could shut out rivals, but could escalate tensions with the United States as EU laws adopted in the last few years have become a sore point in relations with Washington.

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  Google DeepMind Releases WeatherNext 2, a Forecasting AI Model for Users

  Google DeepMind and Google Research have released WeatherNext 2, an upgraded AI weather forecasting model that offers one-hour resolution and generates hundreds of scenarios within a minute using a single TPU. It is eight times faster than last year’s GenCast and is now accessible via Earth Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI. Google says it delivers ...

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  Google Doodle Features One Of Most Searched Mathematical Equations: What Is It, How Is It Used

  Google first introduced this educational Doodle in the US in September and has since expanded it to multiple countries, promoting math learning globally.

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  Google, World Bank Tie-Up To Build AI-Powered Public Digital Infrastructure In Emerging Markets

  Google and the World Bank Group are collaborating to build AI-powered public digital infrastructure for emerging markets, the search engine giant announced on its official blog.

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  Perplexity’s AI-Powered Comet Browser Is Now Available to All Users for Free

  Perplexity has rolled out its AI-powered Comet browser for all users, CEO Aravind Srinivas announced on Thursday. Previously limited to Perplexity Max subscribers and invite-only access, the browser is now open on Windows and Mac, with mobile apps in development. A key feature of the browser is the sidebar AI assistant, which can summarise content,...

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  Google Discover Update Makes It Easier Than Ever to Keep Up With Gadgets 360

  Google recently added the ability for users to choose their preferred news source. Now, the company is introducing another feature, which is claimed to make keeping up with news publications and creators easier. The search engine giant, on Tuesday, announced that it is adding the ability to follow different websites, news portals like Gadgets 360, ...

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  Apple Reportedly Plans AI Web Search Tool for Siri, Using Google’s AI Model for Responses

  Siri is reportedly getting a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered web search tool. According to the report, Apple is planning to add a Perplexity-style answer engine to its voice assistant, making it capable of answering more complex queries conversationally. The system is said to include three components, two of which could be powered by Googl...

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  Google Must Share Search Data With Rivals, Judge Rules in Antitrust Case

  A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the U.S. government's request to break up the company.

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  Google Fined $36 Million Over Anti-Competitive Deals With Australia Telcos

  Google has agreed to pay a Aus$55 million (US$36 million) penalty for striking "anti-competitive" deals to pre-install only its own search engine on Android mobile phones sold by two leading Australian telecoms firms.

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  Why Perplexity, Valued At $18 Billion, Made $34.5 Billion Offer For Chrome

  Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, a price tag nearly double its own valuation.

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  ChatGPT’s Shared Conversations Were Reportedly Discoverable on Google Search, OpenAI Calls It Experiment

  ChatGPT has a feature that allows users to create a URL of their conversation with the chatbot and share it with friends or colleagues. As per a report, some of these shared conversations were discoverable when running a query on search engines such as Google Search, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. To see these conversations, one reportedly needs to filter th...

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  AI Startup Perplexity Receives New Funding, Valued At $18 Billion

  Perplexity AI Inc., whose artificial intelligence-powered search engine competes with Google, has raised fresh capital in a deal that values the startup at $18 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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  OpenAI Reportedly Working On an AI-Powered Web Browser, to Compete With Google Chrome

  OpenAI is reportedly working on an artificial intelligence (AI) web browser and is close to releasing it. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm is readying the browser to compete with Google Chrome. The name of this browser is not known; however, it is said that it will support AI capabilities natively.

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  Google Said to Face DOJ Antitrust Probe Over Character.AI Deal

  The DoJ is investigating if Google violated antitrust law in its agreement with Character.AI. Google last year signed a licensing deal with Character.AI that granted the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the chatbot maker's large language model technology.

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  Google Ramps Up AI Features In Search Engine

  Google said it was beefing up online searches with even more generative artificial intelligence, as it presses on with embracing AI despite fears for its ad-based business model.