The chief executives of Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top administration officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official. The invitation seen by Reuters to the CEOs noted President Joe Biden’s “expectation that companies like yours must make […]
Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, 15 others subject to EU content rules
BRUSSELS, April 25 (Reuters) – Alibaba’s (9988.HK) AliExpress, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 other tech companies will be subject to new EU online content rules as of August, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Tuesday. The other 16 companies are booking.com (BKNG.O), Facebook (META.O), Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, Snapchat, […]
Apple, Google issue ‘warning’ to Amazon over Kindle App
Apple and Alphabet-owned Google have warned Amazon after the companies learnt that sexually explicit photographs can be accessed by children on the popular Kindle app. The companies called on Amazon to strengthen its content moderation. “We’ve shared these concerns with the developer and are working with them to ensure their app is compliant with our guidelines,” a Reuters […]
ChatGPT gives tough chase target to all tech rivals
Chasing Microsoft, global tech giants have rolled out announcements on how they will implement ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence into their world leading platforms and applications, with YouTube the latest to present plans. Here is a roundup of how the world’s biggest tech companies plan to surf the AI wave: Microsoft Microsoft has gone the furthest in pushing out […]
Google hails ‘key milestone’ in quantum computing
PARIS: Google scientists said on Wednesday they have passed a major milestone in their quest to develop effective quantum computing, with a new study showing they reduced the rate of errors — long an obstacle for the much-hyped technology. Quantum computing has been touted as a revolutionary advance that uses our growing scientific understanding of […]
For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb 22 (Reuters) – As Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost. Executives across the technology sector are talking about how to operate AI like […]
Google to soon add generative AI features in search results
STOCKHOLM, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) said on Wednesday it would soon integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating text and other content in search results, as it battles to answer the challenge of Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Alphabet-owned Google unveiled on Monday its own chatbot service, called Bard. At a launch event in Paris on Wednesday, […]
Google introduces a ChatGPT rival, Bard
To compete with ChatGPT, Google is releasing the Bard chatbot, which is AI-powered. Bard is based on Google’s huge language model Lamda, which one programmer said had responses that were so similar to humans’ that he thought it might even be sentient AI tools for its current search engine. AI chatbots also announced new AI chatbots are made to find information and respond to queries. The most well-known example is ChatGPT. […]
Google activates Israel’s first local cloud region
Google activates Israel’s first local cloud region. Alphabet’s Google on Thursday activated a local cloud region for Israel, offering cloud services to the country’s government and military in a move expected to boost jobs and economic growth. Israel signed a deal with Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in May 2021 for the more than $1 billion […]
YouTube expands audio and podcast advertising for brands
YouTube expands audio and podcast advertising for brands. Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube will expand ways for advertisers to reach music and podcast listeners and viewers on connected televisions, the company said on Monday. The announcements come as the advertising industry has struggled amid record-high inflation and supply-chain disruptions, which have caused some brands to pull […]