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Google’s generative AI video model is available in private preview
04 Dec

Google’s generative AI video model is available in private preview

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Google has begun rolling out private access to its Veo and Imagen 3 generative AI models. Starting today, customers of the company’s Vertex AI Google Cloud package can begin using Veo to generate videos from text prompts and images. Then, as of next week, Google will make Imagen 3, its latest text-to-image framework, available to those same users.With Veo’s rollout, Google says it’s the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer an image-to-video model. To that point, OpenAI’s Sora model is still only available to select artists, academics and researchers — though that could change quickly with the company teasing 12…
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02 Dec

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

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Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020, he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. “I don't control any of the future outcomes that this will enable,” Mohandas thought. “So now, shouldn't I be more responsible?”Mohandas, who taught…
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Canada’s Competition Bureau sues to break up Google’s ad business
29 Nov

Canada’s Competition Bureau sues to break up Google’s ad business

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Canada's antitrust watchdog is suing Google to force the breakup of the company’s ad tech unit. In a statement published Thursday, during the US Thanksgiving holiday, the Competition Bureau said a “thorough” investigation had found that Google had abused its dominant position in programmatic web advertising to “maintain and entrench its market power.”Specifically, the watchdog has accused Google of giving its own tools preferential access to online ad inventory. The Competition Bureau alleges the company also took a financial hit on some transactions in an effort to disadvantage rival platforms, and that it even went so far as dictating the…
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How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
26 Nov

How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter

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In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will deliver on the hype with a new crop of affordable consumer and business apps. This is not the consensus view today. OpenAI, Google, and xAI are locked in an arms race to train the most powerful large language model (LLM) in pursuit of artificial general intelligence, known as AGI, and their gladiatorial battle dominates the mindshare and revenue share of the fledgling Gen AI ecosystem.For example, Elon Musk raised $6 billion to launch the newcomer xAI and bought 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the costly chips used…
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Department of Justice confirms that it wants Google to sell off Chrome
21 Nov

Department of Justice confirms that it wants Google to sell off Chrome

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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has released a 23-page document calling for the breakup of Google, including a sale of the Chrome web browser and restrictions on Android, confirming previous reports. Selling Chrome "will permanently stop Google’s control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet," DoJ lawyers argued in the filing.The regulator said that Google must also stop favoring its own search engine in Android. If the company fails to do that, DoJ lawyers argued that it should also…
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Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly
21 Nov

Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly

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To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary data with competitors and advertisers, and “promptly and fully divest Chrome,” Google’s search engine that controls over half of the US market. The government wants Google to sell Chrome to a buyer it approves, arguing the divesture would “pry open the monopolized markets to competition, remove barriers to entry, and ensure there remain no practices likely to result in unlawful monopolization.”The recommendations are part of a detailed plan…
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The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI
19 Nov

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

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The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last year, citing security concerns with the technology as well as the propensity of some tools to exhibit “bias, unpredictability, and malicious behavior,” according to an April 2023 internal guidance memo obtained by WIRED through a public records request. Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer of the USPTO, wrote that the office is “committed to pursuing innovation within our agency” but are still “working to bring these capabilities to the office in a responsible way.”Paul Fucito, press secretary for the USPTO, clarified to WIRED…
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Google is being targeted for oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
15 Nov

Google is being targeted for oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has started the process of placing Google under federal supervision, an action which could create new standards for how the federal government can oversee big tech if the effort is successful. Falling under the CFPB's supervision would subject Google to regular inspections and scrutiny, although the exact aims of the department's efforts have not been fully disclosed. However, it has been an ongoing project for some time, as sources told that Google has been fighting against this move by the CFPB for months.This department was created in 2008 in response to the financial crisis that…
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Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube
14 Nov

Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube

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Google will stop serving political advertisements in the European Union. The decision, in The Keyword blog, is in response to an upcoming new rule for the bloc that "introduces significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties for political advertisers and platforms." The company says the Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising has an overly broad definition for political advertising and raised concerns that technical guidance around the policy may not be given until close to October 2025, when the rules will take effect.In addition to no longer serving that ad content ahead of next October, Google said that…
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You can now search for products inside Google Maps
14 Nov

You can now search for products inside Google Maps

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Google is adding a handful of new features to Maps in time for the holidays, including the ability to search for specific products within the app itself. If you need a sweater for your annual ugly sweater party, new clothes or some last-minute gifts, for instance, you can type the item in Maps' search bar to bring up nearby stores where you may be able to find what you're looking for. From the results that pop up, you can select one of the options and then look up directions. Google says you can search for a wide variety of items…
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