Demonstrators gathered outside Google's annual conference in the US on Tuesday to protest against a €1.1 billion deal known as Project Nimbus that provides artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli government. They contend the system is being lethally deployed in the Gaza war - an allegation Google refutes.
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Google will roll out artificial intelligence (AI) generated summaries at the top of its search engine for users in the US. The "AI overviews" will appear when the technology determines it's the fastest way to answer a user. Google began testing the AI-generated summaries a year ago but is now making it part of its US search results before rolling out the feature to other countries. People will likely still see Google's traditional website links and advertisements for simple searches such as store recommendations or weather forecasts. "We’re encouraged to see not only an increase in Search usag...
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If an “[Item] Found Moving With You” alert pops up on your phone with a ping, there’s an unknown device tracking your every move. That’s the latest change that Apple and Google are putting in place to prevent the misuse of devices that help you keep track of your belongings. The alert means that someone else’s Air Tag, Find My accessory or any other Bluetooth tracker is moving along with them. Along with this new alert, phones will now be able to see the tracker’s identifier and get instructions on how to disable it. “AirTag and third-party Find My network accessories were designed from the be...
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Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is now available in Europe but the company’s model, which aims to make AI chatbots accessible to all, arrived on the continent just hours after its Microsoft-backed rival ChatGPT released its latest version. Anthropic bills itself as an AI safety research company and was founded by former OpenAI executives and researchers. Google and Amazon are also major Anthropic investors. As of Tuesday users in Europe can access Claud.ai, the web-based version of the AI assistant, as well as the free version, the Claude iOS app and the Claude Team plan for...
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Lawyers for the US government and Google are presenting closing arguments in the largest US antitrust case in years this week. US District Judge Amit Mehta is set to issue a ruling in the late summer or early autumn. If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will determine how to rein in its market power. The judge went back and forth with Google's main litigator, John Schmidtlein, on the first day of the trial's closing arguments. Mehta questioned whether another company had the money and data necessary to develop a search engine to compete with Google. “It seems to be very, very unli...
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The US big tech companies once again demonstrated their strong momentum in the first quarter, with the Google parent company, Alphabet, and its rival Microsoft, both surpassing market expectations in their quarterly earnings reports. Alphabet's stocks surged by more than 10%, and Microsoft's shares rose nearly 5% in after-hours trading. The two tech giants are widely seen as the main flag bearers for artificial intelligence (AI), thus providing optimism to the sector. Below are the details of their earnings results and the performance of their respective core businesses in the first quarter. A...
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Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that US search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google’s practices showed it was undermining fair competition in the advertising market. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Yahoo has merged with the Japanese social media platform Line, and Line Yahoo declined comment. The alleged questionable practices by Google began about a decade ago and continued for more than seven years, according to the commission....
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Four of Europe's most popular AI chatbots aren’t providing users with accurate information about the upcoming elections, according to a new study. Democracy Reporting International, a non-profit based in Berlin, inputted various questions about the European Elections through Google's Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0, and Microsoft’s Copilot to see what answers they would get. Between March 11 and 14, researchers asked the chatbots 400 election-related questions in 10 different languages about the election and or voting process in 10 EU countries. The questions were written in simple langua...
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Google has agreed to delete billions of records containing personal information from people in the US who used its Chrome web browser. The purge of information collected from more than 136 million people comes as part of a lawsuit settlement, the details of which emerged in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit from 2020 alleges that Google tracked users' internet activity even when they were in "Incognito" mode. French watchdog imposes a €250 million fine on Google amid dispute with news publishersGoogle vigorously fought the lawsuit until US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected a r...
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The European Commission today (25 March) opened non-compliance investigations into Apple, Meta, and Google’s parent company Alphabet, just a few weeks after new EU market-dominance rules extended to cover online giants. The EU executive is looking at whether Google’s search results favour its own products, at Apple’s new app business model, and at Meta’s "pay or consent" norms under which Facebook users can pay a monthly fee to avoid targeted ads. "We suspect that the proposed solutions put forward by these companies do not fully comply” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new EU law which t...
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