Google is now 0 for 2 in antitrust trials. United States district judge Amit Mehta ruled on Monday that Google has unlawfully maintained its dominance in search by using anticompetitive deals to keep rivals from gaining traction. And without fear of pressure from competitors, Google has been able to charge …
Read More »Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs
Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be prompted to use generative AI to help them write and edit them. This new feature, essentially Zoom’s version of Google …
Read More »Google announces new tactics to curb explicit deepfakes
The explosion of nonconsensual deepfake imagery online in the past year, particularly of female celebrities, has presented a difficult challenge for search engines. Even if someone isn’t looking for that material, searching for certain names can yield a shocking number of links to fake explicit photos and videos of that …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping
Less than three months after Apple quietly debuted a tool for publishers to opt out of its AI training, a number of prominent news outlets and social platforms have taken the company up on it. WIRED can confirm that Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, The New York Times, The Financial Times, …
Read More »Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot
Several years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with superhuman skill through tireless practice. Researchers at the company have now published research that combines the abilities of a large language model …
Read More »SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google
After months of speculation about its search ambitions, OpenAI has revealed SearchGPT, a “prototype” search engine that could eventually help the company tear off a slice of Google's lucrative business. OpenAI said that the new tool would help users find what they are looking for more quickly and easily by …
Read More »A Former Google Engineer Built a Search Engine for Finding Every Privacy Violation You Face Online
“It’s not a level playing field,” says Tim Libert, becoming animated as he shifts in his seat in his sparse home office in Sunnyvale, glancing between hulking monitors and clicking around on his desktop. “In fact it’s the furthest fucking thing from a level playing field.” The thing that is …
Read More »You Can Actually Use a Chromebook Offline. Here’s How
Chromebooks are often sold on their tight integration with the cloud: They're essentially windows to the web and not much else. That comes with a variety of benefits, like never having to worry about losing an unsaved document, but it also means Chromebooks are less useful than Windows or macOS …
Read More »A Google AI model is improving climate forecasting
A new Google AI tool promises to improve climate prediction. NeuralGCM, developed by Google Research, uses physics-based modelling and AIto create fast and precise simulations of Earth’s atmosphere. Traditional climate models work by fragmenting the planet into large pixelated pieces, which makes it hard to accurately predict small-scale conditions like …
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