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AdvertisementThe DOJ has asked the judge in its antitrust case against Google to force the tech giant to sell Chrome, its massively popular browser. In August, a judge ruled Google violated antitrust laws and acted as a monopoly when it came to its search engine. Google will have a chance to respond next month with its own plan before the judge makes a ruling next year. That makes it a powerful distribution arm for Google since Chrome's default search engine is … Google. And Apple was making at least $20 billion a year by defaulting to Google Search .
Persons: Billy Bob Thornton, Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chelsea Jia Feng, Hugh Langley, Lara O'Reilly, Lara, Apple, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Marc Rowan, Arturo Holmes, Apollo, Scott Kleinman, Jim Zelter, Morgan Stanley's, Jeff McMillan's, he's, You've, that's, Michael M, Tyler Le, Google's DeepMind, John Deere, Biden, Dan DeFrancesco, Grace Lett, Ella Hopkins, Hallam Bullock, Amanda Yen, Milan Sehmbi Organizations: Business, Justice Department, Google, Tech, Nvidia, Elon, DOJ, Microsoft, YouTube, Bloomberg, Big Tech, Trump, Getty, , Comcast, Boston Celtics, White Locations: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London
AdvertisementGoogle's DeepMind and YouTube previously built and shelved Orca, an AI music tool. Orca could generate music mimicking artists. Google trained it on copyrighted YouTube music videos. In November 2023, DeepMind announced a music generation AI model named Lyria, which was a pared-down version of the Orca project. AdvertisementSome employees who worked on Lyria and Orca left to found a new startup named Udio, which makes an AI music creation app.
Persons: Lizzie Widhelm, Taylor Swift, Orca, OpenAI, DeepMind, John Legend — Organizations: YouTube, Google
Agemo has exited stealth with $4 million to build AI that turns text prompts into software. Essentially, this required them to train their AI models to reason like a team of engineers. Agemo finds itself up against the likes of Poolside, which raised $500 million in October, and Magic, which raised $320 million in August. To combat this problem, Agemo is building AI systems that can "reason" in software. AdvertisementEurope's answer to Poolside and MagicTo differentiate it from competitors such as Poolside and Magic, the startup says it has developed a neurosymbolic AI system for software reasoning.
Persons: Agemo, Aymeric Zhuo, Osman Ramadan, , IBM's Jonathan Adashek, Mehdi Ghissassi, Olivier Pomel, Zhuo, Ramadan, ChatGPT, we've, We've Organizations: Service, Firstminute Capital, Mistral, Fly Ventures, Cambridge University, Microsoft, Activision, BI Locations: DeepMind, OpenAI, Sudan, London, Europe, Bay
Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into AI, and "prompt engineering" is a lucrative, in-demand job. "That kind of technology is in all the leading companies and a lot of universities," said Gates. "They finished it in just a few months," wrote Gates, calling the achievement "the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface [in 1980]." "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that's just] a few sketch ideas," Gates said, adding: "Just believing in AI, that's not very unique. Start today and use coupon code EARLYBIRD for an introductory discount of 50% off through November 26, 2024.
Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, He'd, OpenAI, stoking, that's Organizations: Tech, Microsoft, Columbia University, Berkshire, Apple, IBM, PayPal, LinkedIn, CNBC Locations: chatbots
Physical Intelligence, a robot startup based in San Francisco, has raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed Monday to CNBC. Investors included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, a Physical Intelligence spokesperson said. Physical Intelligence's new valuation is about six times that of its March seed round, which reportedly came in at $70 million with a $400 million valuation. Physical Intelligence hopes that model will be the first step toward its ultimate goal of developing artificial general intelligence. In case studies, Physical Intelligence details how its tech could allow a robot to do laundry, bus tables or assemble a box.
Persons: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Microsoft's Bing Organizations: Economic, Amazon, Change, Physical Intelligence, CNBC, Investors, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tesla, Google, Intelligence Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, San Francisco, ChatGPT
"Dealing with social anxiety can be challenging, but there are several approaches that might help," the bot responded. "Cathy represents our innovative approach to leveraging technology in support of spiritual exploration," says Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija, the founding director of TryTank and an Episcopal priest. But they've designed it to help spiritual seekers talk about subjects they feel "vulnerable or defensive" about. John Brandon is a journalist who has published over 15,000 articles on social media, technology, leadership, mentoring, and many other topics.
Persons: Cathy, It's, Lorenzo Lebrija, Lebrija, Andrew Doyle, Jesus, Chatbot Eli, Gita GPT, Father Justin, they've, Elon Musk, Joshua K, Smith, I'm Cathy, Sam Altman, Thomas Telving, Richard Zhang, I've, , Rev, Doyle, Telving, John Brandon Organizations: TryTank Research, Episcopal, Episcopal Church, of, Gatorade, Google Locations: of Texas
It was is the first major release from Microsoft's new consumer AI org, under Mustafa Suleyman. It was the first major product release from Mustafa Suleyman's new Microsoft AI group, and it's had a mixed reception so far. AdvertisementHigh expectationsMicrosoft hired Suleyman in March to oversee consumer AI products such as the Bing search engine and the Copilot AI chatbot . For instance, Suleyman's consumer Copilot app is separate from an AI Copilot tool that Microsoft offers as part of its M365 suite of business software. User feedbackIn the public App Store reviews, users complained about several specific issues that have arisen since the consumer AI Copilot app was updated Oct. 1.
Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, , Mustafa Suleyman's, it's, Suleyman, Susanne Franz, Divya Kumar, Kumar Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Business, Copilot
The company beat on revenue, EPS, its ads business, and Google Cloud revenue, which grew 35% year over year. Revenue from Google Cloud grew 35% year over year to $11.4 billion, bolstered by "accelerated growth" in the company's AI products, the company said. Here are the key numbers for the third quarter compared to analysts' estimates:AdvertisementEarnings per share : $2.12 vs. $1.83 expected: $2.12 vs. $1.83 expected Revenue : $88.27 billion vs. $86.44 billion expected: $88.27 billion vs. $86.44 billion expected Google Advertising : $65.9 billion vs. $65.5 billion: $65.9 billion vs. $65.5 billion YouTube advertising revenue : $8.92 billion vs. $8.89 billion expected: $8.92 billion vs. $8.89 billion expected Google Cloud revenue: $11.35 billion vs. $10.79 billion expectedSource for analyst expectations: BloombergAlphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's AI investments were "paying off." The AI results will now reach over 1 billion users on a monthly basis, he said, and ads in AI Overview are "performing well." Related stories"Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI then reviewed and accepted by engineers," Pichai said.
Persons: Sundar Pichai, , Pichai, Demis Hassabis, Evelyn Mitchell, Wolf, Mitchell Organizations: Google, Service, Google Cloud, Bloomberg, Apple, DOJ, Business
Google's new CFO, Anat Ashkenazi, signaled the company can do more to save money and move faster. She said leaders had done good work cutting costs, and they could "push a little further." Google is ramping up its spending on AI, and Wall Street analysts want more details. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Ashkenazi name-checked Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former CFO Ruth Porat for doing "really good work" in starting to rework Google's cost base.
Persons: Anat Ashkenazi, , Sundar Pichai, Ruth Porat, Ashkenazi, Mark Mahaney, Pichai, Sundar Organizations: Google, Wall Street, Service, BNP
Alphabet to report Q3 earnings after the bell
  + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Google parent Alphabet is set to report its third-quarter earnings Tuesday after the market closes. During the quarter, the company also faced the advancement of several antitrust lawsuits related to its search and ads business. That would include Google's search position agreements with Apple's iPhone as well as Samsung devices. With the slow-moving legal process, the company is still likely years away from being forced to make any changes to businesses. In August, the company announced its new Android software update and its latest line of Pixel smartphones that utilize Google's Gemini AI assistant.
Persons: Sundar Pichai, Emily Chang, StreetAccount, Prabhakar Raghavan, Nick Fox, Demis Organizations: APEC, Summit, Moscone Center West, Google, TAC, DOJ, Samsung, Gemini Locations: San Francisco, U.S
A mother is suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide moments after talking to its chatbot. Character AI's founders were re-hired by Google as part of a deal reportedly worth $2.7 billion. Garcia blames the chatbot for her son's death and, in the lawsuit against Character.AI, alleged negligence, wrongful death, and deceptive trade practices. AdvertisementAjder also said Character.AI had faced some public criticism over its chatbot before Google closed the deal. A Google spokesperson told Reuters the company was not involved in developing Character.AI's products.
Persons: Character.AI, , Sewell Setzer, Megan Garcia, Garcia, Setzer, Jain, Megan Garcia's, Character.AI Character.AI, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas, Shazeer, De Freitas, Henry Ajder, wasn't, Ajder, it's Organizations: Google, Service, Business, BI, Tech, Law Project, Trust, Safety, Prevention, Street Journal, Reuters Locations: Character.AI
While many AI companies have focused on training large language models, Groq seeks to make them run as fast as possible using chips it developed called LPUs, or language processing units. The gambit is that as AI models get better, inference — the part where the AI makes decisions or answers questions — will demand more computing power than training will, positioning Groq to reap the rewards. Groq's special (and tightly patented) sauce is its specialized chip design says Ross. Dean asked Ross's team to design a chip based on a specific type of integrated circuit they were using, and the result was Google's first tensor processing unit, a chip designed specifically for AI. Watching the AlphaGo program land a complex "shoulder hit" move on its opponent was validation for Ross that faster inference meant better, smarter AI.
Persons: Groq, Ross, , Google's, Jeff Dean, Dean, Ross's, Lee Sedol Organizations: Rivals, Nvidia, Google
With its core business under threat, Google has spent the past two years pouring resources into building its own AI chips. In charge of those efforts is Vahdat, one of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List picks. Vahdat has been at the company for more than a decade and is today setting the direction for Google's silicon strategy. That also means working closely with Google DeepMind to take its breakthrough models and integrate them throughout Google's products, whether YouTube's creator tools or Google's search ads. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Vahdat Organizations: Google, Amazon, Microsoft
Lorrain serves as creative lead at Google's AI research division, DeepMind. He helps the company apply its AI technologies to different parts of the media world, including recently introducing its video-generation tool Veo to YouTube shorts and collaborating with creators such as Donald Glover and The Weeknd on generative-AI projects. He has worked on computer-vision projects for Marvel's "Avengers" and Netflix's "Stranger Things," among other partnerships with major media brands. Lorrain also taught a class on AI and filmmaking as a guest lecturer at Columbia University this year. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Lorrain, Donald Glover Organizations: DeepMind, Columbia University
Since its founding in 2010, DeepMind has focused on building AI that might solve some of the world's stickiest problems, as varied as the climate crisis and protein folding. Last year, Google, which acquired DeepMind in 2014, folded the group in with the unit responsible for creating the transformers AI model breakthrough, forming what DeepMind's chief operating officer, Ibrahim, describes as "the engine room of Google in the AI era." As head of operations, Ibrahim is not only helping guide Google DeepMind's pursuit of artificial general intelligence, but she's also led several internal initiatives to use DeepMind's research for consumer applications, including several partnerships to bring AI education to schools. But DeepMind's foundational research remains a key focus of investment for Ibrahim and the company. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: DeepMind, Ibrahim, she's Organizations: Google
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says "AI agents" are the next phase of AI after chatbots. According to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind and a recently minted Nobel laureate, there isn't any secret formula to get there. Hassabis pointed to AlphaGo, DeepMind's AI that first defeated humans in Go, demonstrating reasoning skills in the game's defined domain. Hassabis pointed to AlphaGo, DeepMind's AI that first defeated humans in Go, demonstrating reasoning skills in the game's defined domain. They can use hardware like robots in the physical world, software like a calculator, or even other AI systems.
Persons: Demis Hassabis, , Hassabis, they've Organizations: Google, Service, The Times Tech
Google is replacing Prabhakar Raghavan, the company's search and ads boss, with longtime Google executive Nick Fox. Raghavan will continue to report to Pichai in the new role, the company told CNBC in a statement. The company is also dealing with several antitrust lawsuits related to its search and ads business. He will be leading Google's Knowledge and Information division, which includes the company's search, ads and commerce products, Pichai said. He previously worked within the company's ads business unit.
Persons: Prabhakar Raghavan, Nick Fox, Sundar Pichai, Raghavan, Prabhakar, Pichai, Fox, Nick, Demis Organizations: Google, CNBC, Fox
There is an impending wave of new startups spinning out of larger AI labs, per Air Street Capital's State of AI report. AI labs are fragmenting due to ego clashes, philosophical disagreements, and commercial pressures. But as AI labs work towards the sector's holy grail, known as artificial general intelligence, those personalities have clashed — sometimes leading to a very public parting of ways. They are just some of the examples in a long line of AI labs that have fractured away from their juggernaut predecessors to form new startups. The exception would be if AI labs pivot toward building a niche model within a specific vertical, he said.
Persons: , Ilya Sutskever, Andreessen Horowitz, StabilityAI's, H's cofounders, Sam Altman, Noel Hurley, they're, Nathan Benaich, Samir Kumar, Kumar, Peter J, Liu, Hurley, Benaich Organizations: Service, Sequoia, Black, Labs, TechCrunch, Accel, UiPath, NEA, Founders, Air Street Capital, Literal Labs, Touring Capital, Meta, Google Locations: Capital's, Paris, Sutskever
Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementDemis Hassabis, the cofounder of the renowned artificial intelligence lab DeepMind, is recognized worldwide as one of the leading thinkers in his field. Hassabis and his fellow DeepMind coworker, John Jumper, were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on protein structure prediction.
Persons: Demis Hassabis, Hassabis, DeepMind, , Demis, John Jumper Organizations: Chemistry, Google, Service, Guardian, University of Cambridge, University College London
Crews encountered obstacles that entrapped ships or submerged them beneath ice-covered waters, creating an enduring mystique about what went wrong. Ocean secretsThe 3D scan of HMS Endurance makes it appear as though the ship was lifted from the bottom of the ocean. Falklands Heritage Maritime Trust/National GeographicAn awe-inspiring 3D scan has brought the shipwreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, found in 2022, back to life. Meanwhile, a more somber finding gleaned from DNA identified the cannibalized remains of James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus. Other worldsAstronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope watched the shape of Jupiter's Great Red Spot change over 90 days.
Persons: Crews, Ernest Shackleton’s HMS, Shackleton, James Fitzjames, Sir John Franklin, Fitzjames, Trailblazers, David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Matthew Dominick, John Henry Patterson, Thomas Gnoske, Joseph DePasquale, , Indiana Jones, , Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Heritage Maritime Trust, University of Washington, Google, Princeton University, University of Toronto, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Medical School, NASA, International Space, Space, Chicago’s Field, Hubble, European Space Agency, CNN Space, Science Locations: Antarctica, Weddell, Canada’s Nunavut, London, North America, Europe, Kenya, Civil, Petra, Jordan
Microsoft's CEO likes to schedule daily calls with CEOs to expand his network, The Information reported. Satya Nadella's networking reportedly includes leaders from AI but also non-tech industries. AdvertisementSatya Nadella's daily routine consists of waking up at 7 a.m., practicing mindfulness exercises, and, in a new twist, apparently making multiple phone calls to different CEOs. The Microsoft CEO reportedly asks staff to set up two calls a day with other executives of various companies, according to a new report from The Information detailing Nadella's networking strategies. Nadella, who reportedly remained in close contact with Suleyman for several years, eventually hired him to head up Microsoft AI.
Persons: Satya Nadella's, , Satya, Aravind Srinivas, Pete Carroll, Sam Altman, Rebecca Arnold, Root, Arnold, Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, There's Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Seattle Seahawks, Consulting, UAE Locations: Nadella
The Nobel committee just entered the AI chat
  + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
When asked by a reporter whether the committee took the AI connection into consideration when judging the nominees, one member on the chemistry committee basically brushed off the question and insisted the decisions were made purely on the science. The Nobel committee letting politics or PR weigh on their decisions? At first glance, it could seem like the Nobel committee has been gulping down Big Tech’s AI Kool-Aid. While gesturing to generative AI, Wong noticed that no one mentioned ChatGPT or Gemini or any other consumer-facing AI tools that companies are peddling. Similarly, in announcing the chemistry prize on Wednesday, committee members talked a lot about amino acid sequences and structural biochemistry.
Persons: CNN Business ’, , John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, — Demis Hassabis, John M, David Baker, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Hassabis, Matteo Wong, Wong, ” Wong Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Princeton, Google, New York Locations: New York, US, Stockholm
DeepMind researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. AdvertisementDemis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of DeepMind, is one of three researchers to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The pair were recognized for their use of AI to predict protein structures with the DeepMind tool AlphaFold. The other is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream: predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences. AdvertisementDeepMind has also released the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which includes free-to-access models of microscopic protein structures.
Persons: Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, DeepMind, , Demis, David Baker, Hassabis, Heiner Linke, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman Organizations: Service, Business, Chemistry, Google Locations: AlphaFold, London
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded in Sweden on Wednesday. EXCLUSIVE: The moment John Jumper shares the news about his 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. pic.twitter.com/OhNSwiKwgQ — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2024Since the pair’s key paper was published in 2021, it has been cited more than 13,000 times. They are generally built from 20 amino acids that can be combined in endless ways. Using the information stored in DNA as a blueprint, the amino acids are linked together in our cells to form long strings.
Persons: , David Baker, Hassabis, John Jumper, Jonathan Nackstrand, Wednesday’s, Lasker, , David Pendlebury, Baker, Johan Aqvist, ” Aqvist, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield Organizations: CNN, Getty, Google, Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific, University of Washington Locations: Sweden, AFP, British, American, DeepMind
It's sought to position itself as the safer, more responsible AI company. She, along with her brother Dario, was part of the team that left OpenAI with the goal of creating a more responsible AI company. Krishna Rao, Chief Financial OfficerAs any emerging AI company can attest, conducting groundbreaking research isn't enough. In this role, he's building deep relationships with users and helping to turn Anthropic's research into a mass-market product. These capabilities are essential to Anthropic's positioning of itself as the safer AI company.
Persons: Anthropic, It's, , OpenAI's, Dario Amodei, Amodei, Dario, Daniela Amodei, She's, Jack Clark ,, Clark, Jared Kaplan, Kaplan, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, McCandlish, Tom Brown, Brown, Krishna Rao, Rao, Mike Krieger, São Paulo, Krieger, Claude, Brian Israel, it's, Brian, Sam Bowman, Bowman, Jan Leike Organizations: Service, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google, Princeton University, Hertz, Stanford University School of Medicine, sager, Bloomberg, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Research, Organization, Core Resources, Stanford University, Brandeis University, Core, Blackstone, Bain & Company, Anthropic, State Department, NASA Locations: OpenAI, Anthropic, Airbnb, São, Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Israel
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