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Google Opens Bard Chatbot Test With More Plans For AI In Search

Google Opens Bard Chatbot Test With More Plans For AI In Search by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, February 6, 2023 Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in a blog post on Monday explained how the company will launch a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service called Bard. The test will let users provide feedback. A public release will … Continue reading Google Opens Bard Chatbot Test With More Plans For AI In Search

Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment

Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, February 5, 2023 Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic as a preferred cloud provider, announced Friday, includes a financial investment, very similar to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. While the post on the Google Cloud blog did not mention Google’s … Continue reading Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment

Commerce Department calls Google and Apple ‘gatekeepers’ of mobile apps

Commerce Department calls Google and Apple ‘gatekeepers’ of mobile apps   Kris Holt @krisholt Biden administration officials have taken aim at Apple and Google in a new report, describing the pair as “gatekeepers” of the mobile apps that consumers and businesses rely on. The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) states that … Continue reading Commerce Department calls Google and Apple ‘gatekeepers’ of mobile apps

Google Fi warns customers that their data has been compromised

T-Mobile data breach compromised 37 million customers’ data Mariella Moon @mariella_moon T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the … Continue reading Google Fi warns customers that their data has been compromised

Why Google, Netflix and cannabis dispensaries are using this century-old sign technology

  By Nate Berg January 27, 2023 Standing in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris in 2012, Dorrian Porter was transfixed by a sign. The station’s arrivals and departures board—a classic split-flap analog sign that constantly turns its wheels of characters, click-clacking updated information on trains, tracks, and times—had a presence that Porter … Continue reading Why Google, Netflix and cannabis dispensaries are using this century-old sign technology

Senator Urges Google And Apple To Oust TikTok

Senator Urges Google And Apple To Oust TikTok by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, February 3, 2023 Arguing that TikTok threatens national security, a Democratic senator is urging Google and Apple to remove the Chinese-owned social media app from their app marketplaces. “Like most social media platforms, TikTok collects vast and sophisticated data from its users, including … Continue reading Senator Urges Google And Apple To Oust TikTok

AI-Based Enterprise Search Integrates Tech From OpenAI, Google, Others

AI-Based Enterprise Search Integrates Tech From OpenAI, Google, Others by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 31, 2023 C3 AI, an artificial intelligence software company founded by entrepreneur Thomas Siebel, released the first product in a suite it calls C3 Generative AI Product Suite. The first product, C3 Generative AI for Enterprise Search, uses a … Continue reading AI-Based Enterprise Search Integrates Tech From OpenAI, Google, Others

Google Presses Court To Nix Children’s Privacy Claims

Google Presses Court To Nix Children’s Privacy Claims by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, January 26, 2023 Google is pressing a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that reinstated class-action privacy claims brought by parents of young YouTube users. In papers filed late Wednesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Google argues that the … Continue reading Google Presses Court To Nix Children’s Privacy Claims