Author: Paresh Dave
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Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships that helped thrust Google search front and center into Americans’ lives. In a US federal court filing on Friday, Google proposed a series of restrictions
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Mira Murati Quit OpenAI. Shes as Optimistic as Ever About AGI
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati says it could take decades, but AI systems eventually will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks as well as humans do—a prospective technological milestone widely known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. “Right now, it feels quite achievable,” Murati said at WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco
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This Website Shows How Much Googles AI Can Glean From Your Photos
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos.
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Google Selling Chrome Wont Be Enough to End Its Search Monopoly
To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary data with competitors and advertisers, and “promptly and fully divest Chrome,” Google’s browser that controls more than half of the US market. The
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Amazons Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History
Amazon Prime Day has become a destination for shoppers looking to score great deals. The price drops can be substantial—sometimes upwards of 40 percent off an item—but without knowing a product’s price history, it’s impossible to know whether a deal is really a deal. Consumers have long used third-party price trackers to fill in this
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Rings New AI Search Tool Lets You Easily Scan VideosWith Mixed Results
Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of frozen goods that is regularly delivered to their home. She could nag him, or she could check the footage from their Ring. Historically, the latter option required her to tediously swipe through a video timeline
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Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes
A few weeks ago, a Google search for “deepfake nudes jennifer aniston” brought up at least seven high-up results that purported to have explicit, AI-generated images of the actress. Now they have vanished. Google product manager Emma Higham says that new adjustments to how the company ranks results, which have been rolled out this year