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Workers protest a Cloud contract with Israel
Google Cloud workers began a sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California, to protest Israel’s alleged use of AI technology in its military operations in the Gaza Strip. This comes after TIME reported that Google had signed a contract with Israel’s Defence Ministry to build its own ‘landing zone’ on Google…
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Police Detained a couple of workers for protesting a contract with Israel
Google’s Israel and Apple Police forcibly removed nine workers from its New York and Silicon Valley offices over their sit-in protest against its cloud contract with Israel’s government. The protesters were protesting against ‘Project Nimbus’, a cloud contract with Israel’s Defence Ministry, amid the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Project Nimbus has been the target…
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The data collected in Incognito mode will be destroyed
Google has reached a settlement to resolve a lawsuit that accused it of illegally tracking users through ‘Incognito’ mode. Google will de-identify billions of data records of browsing data when it was Incognito mode. Users will also be allowed to block third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode. The settlement could apply to 136 million…
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Apple uses a machine learning model to show a sleeping giant
Apple is in preliminary talks with Google for inclusion of its AI model MM1 in their phones, the NYT reported. “It shows they have the ability to understand how to train and build these models,” Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon professor who led AI research at Apple, told NYT. MM1 is a multimodal large language…
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It will not win the video games you play with it
Google’s DeepMind is exploring the power of Artificial Intelligence to learn more using lessons learned from its video game Goat Simulator 3. DeepMind said its AI system, SIMA, is able to take advantage of shared concepts in the game and learn better skills and to learn to be better at carrying out instructions. The team…
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A Chinese citizen has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from a tech giant
A Chinese-American man has been charged with stealing Google’s technology secrets and creating an AI startup after faking his presence at Google’s US office in December 2020. He also founded the startup Zhisuan, focused on AI and machine learning, a year later. He is facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine…
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The search engine is beginning to squash more email and web site content
Google announced that it’s working on ways to reduce “low-quality, unoriginal content” in search results. It will focus on reducing what the company calls “scaled content abuse”, which is when bad actors flood the internet with huge amounts of articles and blog posts designed to game search engines. According to Google, the change will reduce…
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The health care company has ties with the Russian-linked criminals
UnitedHealth Group, the health insurer, confirmed that a cyber attack on healthcare providers nationwide has been identified as the work of Blackcat. The attack has led to more than a week-long outage of the United-owned Change Healthcare system, disrupting payments at hospitals, clinics and pharmacies across the US. UnitedHealth is currently working with Google-owned Mandiant…
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The New York Times reports on Big Tech’s latest power grab
Social media company NetChoice has asked the US Supreme Court to stop Texas from implementing a law that would prohibit tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, from discriminating on the basis of viewpoint when they take posts off their platforms. NetChoice said the law was “facially discriminatory”. The court will hear the case on…
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Google has stopped its ability to generate artificial intelligence images of people
Google has apologised for the inaccuracies in historical images its AI model generated. Users had asked for images of historical groups or figures, and found that non-white people were in the results. Some users have asked for images of historical groups or figures, and found non-white people in the results. The first female Senator was…
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The ability to generate images of people was paused by the company
Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini, was criticised for using “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” while generating images. Google said it’s working on improving the tool’s ability to generate images, but some historical requests still end up factually misrepresenting the past. The company said its attempts at creating a “wide range” of results missed…
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The next-gen Artificial Intelligence model is called Gemini 1.5 and it is almost ready
Google has released Gemini Pro 1.5, a new model that it says can be used to answer questions about specific actions in Buster Keaton movies. Google said the new model exploits a technique previously invented by Google researchers to squeeze out performance without requiring more computing power. It added the model is as capable as…
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The next-gen artificial intelligence model from the search giant, called Gemini 1.5, is almost ready
Google’s new AI-powered chatbot, Gemini Advanced has reportedly done a better job translating the first few lines of the Philippine Patriotic Oath. “I asked if it knows a thing or two about Filipino, and it said yes,” TechCrunch reported. ” 40 Gemini supports 40 languages, but Filipino isn’t on the list. Those 150 words explained…
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The new brand of the tech giant’s chat bot is “Gemini.”
Google has launched a subscription-based service called AI Premium that will give users access to its new AI-powered chatbot ‘Bard’, and the ability to search the web. The service will cost $20 per month and will give users access to the more advanced version of the chatbot,’Gemini Advanced’, Google said. The service will also allow…
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Where search isn’t king is the way that the company prepares for a future
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google’s new chatbot Gemini Advanced has been rolled out to users. The chatbot, which was announced earlier this month, has been designed to answer users’ questions about email and help them decide whether they should send a message to a robot. Gemini Advanced is currently just designed for answering…
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The Cloud Boss of Amazon believes in the hype of the dotcom bubble
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky has said that a new AI-powered chatbot can “understand intent…and react with personality”, Google’s VP of product management Jack Krawczyk said. The new Gemini chatbot will have “more attitude” and will “understand intent and react with personality”, he further said. Krawczyk added that the chatbot will “understand intent…
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Ring stopped sharing video with police
Ring has announced it will stop letting police departments request doorbell camera footage from users, a feature that has drawn criticism from privacy advocates. However, Amazon-owned Ring still has the right to share footage without user consent in limited circumstances. Police can still look at videos that they have search warrant for. Google will show…
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The Obscure deal is the reason that America’s privacy protections are broken
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced it will review Google’s and Facebook’s “consent decrees” on data collection and retention of children under 13 in an attempt to protect their privacy on social media. The FTC said it will be collecting public comments on the proposal for 60 days after posting notice in the…
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The company might have to pay 700 million dollars if it’s found that the app store is an illegal monopoly
Google has agreed to open up its app store to third-party developers in South Korea and the European Union. The agreement comes after Google was sued for anti-trust violations in the US. The settlement says that there is no requirement for Google to allow developers to include links that let users make purchases outside of…
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The jury decided that a monopoly was illegal in the app store fight
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said he watched most of the Google antitrust trial in person. He added that Google paid game developers to not compete with Android. “If Google had said yes to that, that would have been awesome for all developers, Android ecosystem would have become much, much stronger, and Google would be…
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A jury said that theAndroid app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers
A US judge on Wednesday found in favour of Google-owned Android app store Epic Games in a lawsuit against Apple. The judge ruled that Apple’s App Store practices were anticompetitive. Epic accused Apple of using its dominance in the app store and other apps marketplace to drive developers away. Earlier this year, Epic was ordered…
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It was decided by the jury that the Apps Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly
The US judge who heard the Epic Games lawsuit against Google for allegedly violating in-app purchase fees has ruled that Epic cannot sue Google for damages. The judge said Epic’s argument that Google’s in-app purchases constitute an unlawful monopoly is “over the top” and he’ll not grant the company’s request for an anti-circumvention provision. Epic…
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Hassabis thinks that he is a new kind of artificial intelligence
Google has compared its artificial intelligence (AI) model ‘Gemini’ with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and said that it has done a “very thorough analysis” of the systems side by side. “There’s still things like action, and touch, more like robotics-type things,” Google’s VP for AI and AI-powered services Hassabis Vinyals said. Gemini can work with images, video…
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How to use an Artificial Intelligence in a chatbot
Google on Wednesday unveiled Gemini Pro, the “biggest and best upgrade” yet for Bard, Google’s AI-powered Assistant. In a press briefing, Google’s Chief Product Officer Sissie Hsiao, who runs Bard and Assistant at Google, said that Gemini represents the “biggest and best update yet” for Bard. Google plans to roll out support for other languages…
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GPT-4 is the model it hopes to take down
Google has compared the performance of its new large-scale AI model GPT-4 with the performance of its existing AI model Gemini. The results show that GPT-4 is faster and cheaper to run than Google’s previous models like PaLM. It also has better accuracy than Gemini, Google said. GPT-4 is trained by Google on its own…