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Cloudgaming: Google Stadia failed only because of itself - Golem.de.: Technology wasn't the problem with Alphabet's ambitious cloud gaming service ...
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The Death Of Stadia Is A Massive Blow To Cloud Gaming: Stadia's failure is a story of poor management, but it will be remembered as a failure of cloud ...
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Cloudgaming: Google Stadia failed only because of itself - Golem.de.: Technology wasn't the problem with Alphabet's ambitious cloud gaming service ...
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The Death Of Stadia Is A Massive Blow To Cloud Gaming: Stadia's failure is a story of poor management, but it will be remembered as a failure of cloud ...
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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers: We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know
theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/
Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones
techcrunch.com/2024/03/17/apple-is-reportedly-exploring-a-partnership-with-google-for-gemini-powered-feature-on-iphones/
Quick Glance: Alphabet Benefits from Gemini Deal
- A significant artificial intelligence partnership from Silicon Valley led to a positive development in stocks at the beginning of the week, preceding a crucial week for the markets.
- Reports suggest that iPhones may soon receive a refresh with Google AI.
- Shares of Google parent Alphabet shot up 7% after Bloomberg reported that the search engine giant and Apple are in discussions for a deal to bring Google’s generative artificial intelligence services to Apple’s iPhones.
- The Federal Reserve will decide on interest rate cuts this week, which could potentially impact the positive sentiments on Wall Street.
Courts Demand Info About People Who Viewed Specific YouTube Videos: Privacy experts say the requests are unconstitutional.
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Quick Glance: Legal Requests Regarding YouTube Viewers
- Google has been instructed by authorities to provide details about viewers of specific YouTube videos, including personal information and viewing habits of unregistered users.
- Concerns have been raised by privacy experts regarding the constitutionality of these requests, which could potentially target individuals solely based on their online activities.
- The requests pertain to viewers of certain videos between Jan. 1-8, 2023, as part of an investigation related to “elonmuskwhm,” with additional details about user activity being requested.
- Forbes reports that the investigation into elonmuskwhm focuses on the illegal sale of Bitcoin for cash, prompting undercover agents to provide YouTube tutorials on drone mapping and augmented reality to elonmuskwhm, resulting in over 30,000 views.
Google.org launches $20M generative AI accelerator program: Google.org, Google’s charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing ...
techcrunch.com/2024/03/28/google-org-launches-20m-generative-ai-accelerator-program/
InnovationRx: Google Is Developing An AI Health Coach For Fitbit: Plus: Why Health Records Giant Epic Is Betting On Generative AI; This Startup Is One Step ...
forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2024/03/21/innovationrx-google-is-developing-an-ai-health-coach-for-fitbit/
Quick Glance: UN adopts groundbreaking global AI resolution
- The resolution underscores the need for guidelines for safe, trustworthy AI systems and excludes military AI.
- It promotes the positive potentials of AI, calls for bridging digital divides and ensuring equitable access to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- The resolution was a step forward to address the promises and risks of AI, aiming to support developing countries.
- Concerns regarding negative impacts of AI on human rights and data protection are highlighted, emphasizing the need for responsible regulation of the technology.
EU opens investigations into Apple, Meta and Google: If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms could be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover.
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Google fined €250m in France for breaching intellectual property deal: Watchdog accuses US tech firm of not negotiating in ‘good faith’ with publishers over use ...
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Quick Glance: Google Fined €250 Million by French Authorities for Media Payment Deal Breach
- French authorities fined Google €250 million for breaking a deal regarding payment to media businesses for online reproduction of their material.
- Google was accused by the French competition authority of violating four out of seven agreements included in the settlement, including lack of transparency and failure to negotiate in good faith with publishers.
- The competition authority stated that Google's AI-powered chatbot Bard, later renamed Gemini, used material from publishers and news agencies without permission.
- Google stated that it has signed licensing agreements with 280 French news publishers and pledged to collaborate with them, while disputing the proportionality of the French competition authority's fine.
Google reveals zero-day exploits in enterprise tech surged 64% last year: Crooks know where the big bucks are
theregister.com/2024/03/27/surge_in_enterprise_zero_days/
Apple, Google, Meta Probed by EU in Test of New Digital Law: Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. face the risk of potentially hefty fines ...
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Quick Glance: EU DMA: First Probes on Big Tech
- The EU has announced formal investigations against Alphabet/Google, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
- The three gatekeepers are under scrutiny to determine compliance violations and potential fines.
- Criticism of Google, Apple, and Meta's DMA compliance plans; concerns regarding self-preferencing, user choice, and data privacy.
- The EU has also announced 'investigatory steps' concerning Amazon and instructed five gatekeepers to retain documents for assessment of their compliance.
Meta and Google face claims of restricting reproductive health ads and fueling misinformation
engadget.com/meta-and-google-face-claims-of-restricting-reproductive-health-ads-and-fueling-misinformation-132913618.html
This small curbside EV charger can deliver 200 miles of range in 13 minutes: Google-backed Gravity's new curbside DC fast charger is no bigger than a Level ...
electrek.co/2024/03/25/curbside-ev-charger-can-deliver-200-miles-of-range-13-minutes/
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
theregister.com/2024/03/26/arm_chrome_google_windows/
Third-Party Apps and Watch Faces Will Disappear From Fitbits In The EU This Summer
pcmag.com/news/third-party-apps-and-watch-faces-will-disappear-from-fitbits-in-the-eu
In India, Google Researchers Use AI to Predict Floods in Data-Sparse Areas: A highly accurate AI model now operational in 80 countries has been used to forecast ...
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The DOJ Puts Apple's iMessage Encryption in the Antitrust Crosshairs: Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues ...
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story: They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most ...
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Feds subpoena YouTube viewers for certain videos: Investigators sent a video link to a suspect, then demanded Google identify anyone who'd watched it ina a ...
pcworld.com/article/2278729/feds-demanded-id-of-youtube-users-who-watched-certain-videos.html
Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
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Fitbit: Google with new branding: As we all know, Google took over Fitbit and has since introduced a number of changes. However, it is often the subtle ...
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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
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Google wants to use generative AI to build travel itineraries for your vacations | TechCrunch
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The résumé that landed a Google employee his $300,000 job: "In the beginning, I would try to add cool acronyms in there," Sahil Gaba said of a résumé mistake he ...
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Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target tech: Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides ...
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EU to investigate Apple, Google, Meta for potential Digital Markets Act breaches: EU antitrust regulators on Monday opened their first investigations under the ...
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Chrome launches native build for Arm-powered Windows laptops: When the big Windows-on-Arm relaunch happens in mid-2024, Chrome will be ready.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/chrome-launches-native-build-for-arm-powered-windows-laptops/
Beware AI euphoria: Like all great bubble stories, the latest tech narrative conveys a sense of inevitability
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Google's AI can ingest multiple books. What happens to all that data?: It's highly likely that Google will use information put into Gemini's giant context window ...
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Confetti, a team-building platform used by Apple, Google and Microsoft, raises $16M
techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/confetti-a-team-building-platform-used-by-apple-google-and-microsoft-raises-16m/
Why RFK Jr. Picked This Particular Rich Rando as His VP: Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura could not do for him what she can.
slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/nicole-shanahan-bio-rfk-jr-vp-google-money.html
Quick Glance: RFK Jr. selects attorney Nicole Shanahan as his VP candidate
- Independent presidential hopeful, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealed on Tuesday that Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy attorney and entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area, is joining his campaign as his vice presidential candidate.
- Shanahan has been actively contributing to Kennedy's campaign and his super PAC, solidifying her position as a potential vice presidential candidate.
- Additionally, Shanahan has established a foundation advocating for issues such as reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform, and a sustainable planet.
- Kennedy has a strong emphasis on anti-vaccine efforts and has incorporated anti-vaccine activists into his campaign team to bolster his stance on the matter.
Android 15: Supported Pixel devices can also be found via Bluetooth when switched off in future
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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies: Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with ...
wired.com/story/cookie-pop-up-ad-tech-partner-top-websites/
Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target tech: Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides ...
reuters.com/technology/google-apple-breakups-agenda-global-regulators-target-tech-2024-03-24/
YouTube will require disclosure of AI-manipulated videos from creators: YouTube wants "realistic" likenesses or audio fabrications to be labeled.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/youtube-rolls-out-warnings-for-ai-manipulated-videos/
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches: Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track?
theregister.com/2024/03/25/coherent_optical_circuit_switch/
Samsung Pay to drop Russian Mir payment card in April - Euromaidan Press: Joining Apple and Google, Samsung will sever support for Russia's Mir payment ...
euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/27/samsung-pay-to-drop-russian-mir-payment-card-in-april/
Google to use RISC-V for its custom AI silicon — TPU to get open source compute core: Report
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Google releases Android 15 Developer Preview 2 with satellite improvements: Google has released the second developer preview of Android 15. It brings ...
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Google Deepmind unveils AI football tactics coach honed with Liverpool: Human experts prefer TacticAI’s suggested positional improvements at corner kicks
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Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry: The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other ...
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The Morning After: NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips
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Google's Safe Browsing protection in Chrome goes real-time | TechCrunch: Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will ...
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Midjourney Bans AI Images of Trump, Biden Ahead of 2024 Election: Following OpenAI and Google, Midjourney blocks users from getting creative with presidential ...
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Quick Glance: Midjourney Blocks Images of Biden and Trump Before Election
- Midjourney has started blocking users from creating fake images of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
- The company described this as a temporary measure to make it harder for people to abuse the tool.
- A watchdog group found that Midjourney is already being used to produce images that could support political disinformation.
- Midjourney differs from other image-generators as users can see most other users' prompts and images in public forums.
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg is personally trying to poach Google AI researchers for Meta
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Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run new consumer AI unit: Tech giant will also absorb most of the staff from Suleyman’s AI start-up ...
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Reddit IPO hinges on improving performance for advertisers: Despite being around for nearly 20 years, Reddit has yet to take off in a big way with marketers and ...
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Back of the net? Google's DeepMind is coming for football tactics: 2026 FIFA World Cup in US could be first to see ML models play a part... and you thought video ...
theregister.com/2024/03/20/googles_deepmind_football/
Nvidia's new software tools meant for companies adding AI to business: Nvidia on Monday unveiled software aimed at making it easier for businesses to incorporate ...
reuters.com/technology/nvidias-new-software-tools-meant-companies-adding-ai-business-2024-03-19/
Quick Glance: Nvidia Expands Partnerships with Chinese EV Makers
- Nvidia expands collaborations with Chinese automakers to advance self-driving vehicles and AI technology.
- BYD to utilize Nvidia's Drive Thor chips for autonomous driving and digital functions.
- Chinese auto brands intensify partnerships with Nvidia to enhance global presence.
- Nvidia announces partnerships with companies like Cerence and Lenovo for AI technology development.
Google Is About to Force You to Use Generative Search: AI-generated summaries and roundups will appear at the top of your Google search results ...
extremetech.com/internet/google-is-about-to-force-you-to-use-generative-ai-search
Exclusive: Behind the plot to break Nvidia’s grip on AI by targeting software: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing artificial-intelligence ...
reuters.com/technology/behind-plot-break-nvidias-grip-ai-by-targeting-software-2024-03-25/
Nvidia is about to face its first major threat: Nvidia added almost $2 trillion in value in the generative-AI boom, but rivals want to stop it from getting even ...
businessinsider.com/nvidia-face-first-major-threat-rivals-software-cuda-ai-chips-2024-3
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Open-source AI models released by Tokyo lab Sakana founded by former Google researchers
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Apple in talks to let Google's Gemini power iPhone AI features, Bloomberg News says
reuters.com/technology/apple-talks-let-googles-gemini-power-iphone-ai-features-bloomberg-news-says-2024-03-18/
Reddit IPO To Debut After Social Media Firm Prices At Top Of Range: The Reddit IPO is priced at 34 per share, valuing the social media company at about $6 ...
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Quick Glance: Reddit Shares Surge 48% in Market Debut
- Reddit shares ended their first day of trading in New York up 48 per cent, signaling that investor appetite for initial public offerings of promising yet loss-making companies could be returning.
- While Reddit still relies on advertising for the vast majority of its revenue, it positioned its content in its IPO marketing as training grounds for AI programs and disclosed an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission into its AI data licensing deals.
- Shares of Reddit opened on the New York Stock Exchange at $47 and surged to $50.44 after pricing at $34 in the IPO.
- Reddit's entry into public markets was long overdue, and although the allocation of shares to users and retailers poses risks, the extremely bullish sentiment from retail traders on platforms like Stocktwits indicates that the cult brand Reddit continues to hold a significant cultural presence in the social media world.
Google Moves to Filter Out More Spam, AI-Generated Content From Search: Google is updating its search algorithms to provide better results amid a surge in ...
pcmag.com/news/google-moves-to-filter-out-more-spam-ai-generated-content-from-search
After Google & Microsoft, Dell Becomes Latest Tech Giant To Do Layoffs, Fires 6,000 Employees
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Creator and influencer trends brand marketers need to know about right now: This week: Google taps influencers to promote its AI tool, Ford puts Charli D'Amelio ...
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Early Google investor accused of insider trading: Andy Bechtolsheim wrote one of the earliest checks for Google, and co-founded Sun Microsystems.
axios.com/2024/03/27/andy-bechtolsheim-insider-trading
Google named as company behind proposed $576 million Cedar Rapids data center: Iowa Economic Development Authority to consider state incentives Friday
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Texans scramble for VPNs after adult sites go dark: Here are some great ones: Searches for VPNs have spiked in Texas after the popular adult website PornHub went ...
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US takes on Apple as efforts to curtail Big Tech gather momentum: Apple was on Thursday sued by the U.S. Department of Justice, the latest antitrust action ...
reuters.com/technology/us-takes-apple-efforts-curtail-big-tech-gather-momentum-2024-03-21/
'The Law Is the Law': EU Investigates Apple, Google, Meta for Anti-Monopoly Violations
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Alphabet and Apple have cause to circle AI wagons: The enemy of Alphabet’s enemy may be its friend. The $1.8 trillion search giant pays Apple billions of dollars ...
reuters.com/breakingviews/alphabet-apple-have-cause-circle-ai-wagons-2024-03-18/
AI Chip Startups Like MatX Storm Silicon Valley: A new startup called MatX from former Google engineers reflects a renewed enthusiasm for chipmakers.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/ai-chip-startups-like-matx-storm-silicon-valley
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The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights: Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on ...
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In India, Google Researchers Use AI to Predict Floods in Data-Sparse Areas: A highly accurate AI model now operational in 80 countries has been used to forecast ...
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Chrome browser for Snapdragon PCs lands just in time: Qualcomm and Google have announced Chrome for Windows on Snapdragon, an optimized version of the Chrome ...
pcworld.com/article/2277607/chrome-browser-for-snapdragon-pcs-lands-just-in-time.html
Google: Strong Buy - The Cheapest Trillionaire: Discover how Google's consistent growth, strong balance sheet, and advancements in AI present promising ...
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Exclusive: Behind the plot to break Nvidia's grip on AI by targeting software: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing artificial-intelligence ...
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iPhones in China are likely to get Baidu's AI features: After planning to bake Google's Gemini features on the iPhone, Apple is also in talks with ...
neowin.net/news/iphones-in-china-are-likely-to-get-baidus-ai-features/
Google confirms it's restricting Gemini election queries globally | TechCrunch: Google has started rolling out restrictions on Gemini for election-related ...
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Google defends Digital Markets Act changes, cites complex trade-offs: Alphabet's Google on Thursday will seek to fend off criticism about changes to its core ...
reuters.com/technology/google-defends-digital-markets-act-changes-cites-complex-trade-offs-2024-03-20/
Google to Restrict AI Answers About Elections and Other Technology News Today: Alphabet’s Google is being ultra-cautious about AI when it comes to elections ...
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Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”: Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots ...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/googles-self-designed-office-swallows-wi-fi-like-the-bermuda-triangle/
Microsoft singles out Google's competitive edge in generative AI: Alphabet unit Google enjoys a competitive edge in generative artificial intelligence due to its ...
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Quick Glance: EU AI Act Approved by European Parliament
- The European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the AI Act, positioning the EU as a global leader in regulating AI software.
- The legislation establishes a risk-based framework for AI, applying rules and requirements based on the level of risk associated with the use case.
- Penalties for non-compliance under the Act can reach up to 7% of global annual turnover or €35M.
- The AI Act, shaped through extensive negotiations, is expected to be fully implemented by mid-2027.
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