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Staff at Google have been "working around the clock" to resolve the issue brought about by their AI project. Gemini, a chatbot based on the company’s most advanced AI technology, was launched last week and blocked user's requests for depictions of white people but in a staff email from Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai that was seen by the WSJ, he has claimed that not AI will be "perfect" at this early stage and they are preparing to review the incident. He wrote: "We’ve always sought to give users helpful, accurate, and unbiased information in our products. That’s why people trust them. T...
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Google once offered an employee a 300 percent pay rise to stop him from joining a rival company. The search engine giant learned that one employee was planning to move to Perplexity AI but in an attempt to stop him from jumping ship, allegedly offered him three times his salary as motivation to stay, according to Aravind Srinivas on the Big Technology Podcast. He claimed that the employee in question was part of "search team" and had no direct involvement with its AI division. The comments come just weeks after top nbosses at Google warned staff that there would be mass job cuts later this yea...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that Apple receives a whopping 36% of Alphabet’s search revenue for Safari. The tech boss was testifying in a lawsuit filed against the company by ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games when he was asked to clarify the validity of the figure by an opposing attorney. He simply replied: “That’s correct.” The sensitive information was revealed when expert eye witness testifying for Google in a separate antitrust trial against the US Department of Justice, University of Chicago professor Kevin Murphy, allegedly revealed the figure by accident. According to Bloomberg, Goog...
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Amazon and Google employees in the U.S. are demanding their companies take a side in the Israel-Gaza War. Many workers have voiced their support for Palestine, whilst top executives at these tech giants have remained silent following Israel's bombing of the country. Three days after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took to X (formally Twitter) to say that he was "deeply saddened by the terrorist attacks in Israel this weekend and the escalating conflict underway." Even so, countless employees are not happy with his silence over Palestine's suffering, with more than ...
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Elon Musk says there is an “overwhelming consensus” on regulating Artificial Intelligence. The X CEO reported that some of the industry’s biggest heavyweights, like OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg all agreed with the need to set limits on the ever-growing arena at a secretive conference in Washington DC, which also included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s past and present chief executives. Afterwards, the 52-year-old billionaire told reporters that he wanted a “referee” on the sector, which has been criticised for copyright infringemen...
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Google is facing a landmark trial in the US. The tech giant is facing accusations from federal prosecutors of unreasonably making itself the market leader in search engines by forking out billions of dollars to companies like Apple and Mozilla to become the go-to choice on various online services, which contributed to 90 per cent of all online searches over the world. The case against Google - which is expected to play out over a 10-week trial which will see Sundar Pichai, the CEO of its parent company Alphabet, testify alongside executives from firms like Apple - asserts this business practic...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has thanked users around the world as the search engine upon its 25th anniversary. The world's biggest search engine celebrated the milestone of its launch date on Monday (04.09.23) and now CEO Sundar has claimed it is a "huge priviledge" for the techn company to still be around all this time later. In a blog post, he said: "To everyone around the world who uses our products, our employees, and our partners: This month, Google will celebrate our 25th birthday. It’s a huge privilege to reach this milestone, made possible by the people who use our products and challenge ...
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Google’s parent company is set to axe 12,000 jobs. Alphabet - who own and operate the search engine, YouTube and other tech giants - have announced a significant wave of redundancies to staff via email. Sundar Pichai wrote to staff and took “full responsibility” for the mass losses, which represents six per cent of the total workforce, that come after Microsoft shared that 10,000 jobs would be on the chopping block and mere weeks after e-retail giant Amazon revealed plans to make 18,000 people unemployed. In the memo, he thanked everyone for “working so hard”, telling them their “contributions...
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Google is reportedly planning to make a significant change to its Chrome browser. The tech giant has been working on an option that will block "insecure" downloads through HTTP, according to 9to5Google. HTTP web addresses are widely considered to be less secure than HTTPS, which is used more broadly in 2022. But Google has already decided to take action on the issue, after previously alerting people when they're on an insecure HTTP website. The proposed changed has been unearthed amid some special code. It reads: "Enables insecure download blocking. "This shows a ‘blocked’ message if the user ...
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Google has cancelled a number of projects at Area 120. The search engine giant launched the in-house incubator back in 2016 and has been conducive to the development of brand off shoots such as Gmail, AdSense, Google News, and Google Cardboard but CEO Sundar Pichai has reportedly informed staff that there will be a "reduction in force" that will see the company's output halved, according to TechCrunch. A Google spokesperson later said in a statement: "Area 120 is an in-house incubator for experimental new products. The group regularly starts and stops projects with an eye toward pursuing the m...
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