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☆ Google is quietly handing out early demos of its GPT-4 rival called Gemini. Here's what we know so far about the upcoming AI model.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google is preparing to launch its answer to rival OpenAI's GPT-4: Gemini. Gemini is a next-gen, multimodal AI model due for release later this year. The tech is a next-gen, multimodal AI model being worked on by a team of researchers pulled from Google's now-merged AI divisions DeepMind and Google Brain. Gemini is multimodalGoogle's Gemini is a multimodal AI, meaning it can process more than one type of data. Researchers behind the SemiAnalysis blog have also predicted that Google's Gemini would likely outperform GPT-4 because of Google's access to top-flight chips.

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A view of the main lobby of building BV200, during a tour of Google's new Bay View Campus in Mountain View, California, U.S. May 16, 2022. The California settlement requires Google to pay $93 million, and disclose more about how it tracks people's whereabouts and uses data it collects. Money from Google's $62 million settlement with private plaintiffs would, after deducting legal fees, go to court-approved nonprofit groups that track internet privacy concerns. Last November, Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to resolve similar allegations by 40 U.S. states. Lawyers for the private plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Persons: Peter DaSilva, Rob Bonta, cy, Jonathan Stempel, Leslie Adler, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Google, Alphabet Inc, Thomson Locations: Mountain View , California, U.S, California, View , California, Arizona, Washington, New York

A view of the main lobby of building BV200, during a tour of Google's new Bay View Campus in Mountain View, California, U.S. May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Alphabet Inc FollowSept 14 (Reuters) - Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices. The Mountain View, California-based company did not admit liability in agreeing to settle. Last November, Google agreed to pay $391.5 million to resolve similar allegations by 40 U.S. states. Some states including California chose to sue Google on their own.

Persons: Peter DaSilva, Rob Bonta, Google, Bonta, Jonathan Stempel, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, Google, California, Alphabet Inc, Thomson Locations: Mountain View , California, U.S, California, View , California, Arizona, Washington, New York

☆ Google CEO says he isn't worried about catching up to OpenAI after declaring a 'code red': 'I feel very comfortable about where we are.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn't in a rush to catch up to OpenAI, he told Wired. Releasing Google's AI products before ChatGPT was launched "wouldn't have worked out as well," he said. Pichai's thoughts on AI come months after the CEO declared a "code red" for Google's search engine. "In some ways, it was an exciting moment for me, because we are building that underlying technology and deploying it across our products," Pichai told Wired in an interview published on Monday. Since the disastrous demo, Google has announced a slate of new AI products.

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☆ Insider Today: Analyzing Google salaries
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're taking a deeper look at the leaked Google salary data by looking at pay ranges across various factors. The sheet detailed 2022 base salaries, equity, and bonuses from over 12,000 Google employees in the US. Google employees who identified as being of Black/African descent had a median base salary at least $23,000 below their Asian, White, and Middle Eastern/North African colleagues. The gap didn't improve among software engineers, as those of Black/African descent had a median base salary $24,500 lower than those of white or European descent. Google employees who identified as being of Black/African descent had a median base salary at least $23,000 below their Asian, White, and Middle Eastern/North African colleagues.

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☆ Google's new AI tool may save your skin if you're running late for a meeting or terrible at taking notes — here's how it works
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google's new AI offering is aimed at saving time at work. Duet AI adds new features to Google Workspace, including meeting attendance and note-taking. The company's Duet AI for Workspace was made available to the public on Tuesday and offers several new features for the productivity tool. Duet AI can join a meeting on a user's behalf, deliver a message, and recap it for them later. During a meeting, attendees will also be able to chat privately with Google's AI chatbot to go over meeting details.

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☆ Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A Google LLC logo is seen at the Google offices in the Chelsea section of New York City, U.S., January 20, 2023. The price is the same as rival Microsoft's (MSFT.O) "Copilot" AI-powered office software suite that includes Teams and Outlook. Google has intensified investments in generative AI this year as it plays catch-up after Microsoft-backed OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT last year took the tech world by storm. Google's new tools include "Duet AI in Workspace", which will assist customers across its apps with writing in Docs, drafting emails in Gmail and generating custom visuals in Slides, among others. The company plans to release more offerings over the coming months for other customer segments, including small and medium-sized businesses and consumers.

Persons: Shannon Stapleton, Microsoft's, Jaspreet Singh, Devika Organizations: REUTERS, Google, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: Chelsea, New York City, U.S, San Francisco, Bengaluru

☆ I landed a job at Google right out of college. Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Charlene Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Charlene Lee is a former product manager at Google who wishes she had a guide prior to starting her first job. Today, I'd like to share some of the lessons I wish I had learned before starting my career, lessons that I now teach my team. It's your job to find a good managerOne of my best managers, Paul, spent a lot of time with me early in my career. Things changed when the next box, like writing a book, started conflicting with things that weren't on the list. The start of your career is the beginning of your journey, and I hope that this guide helps you with yours.

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☆ Google is testing a new A.I. tool that writes news articles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGoogle is testing a new A.I. tool that writes news articlesCNBC's Steve Kovach joins 'The Exchange' to discuss Google's new tool that uses AI to write news stories, Google's effort to market AI tools to news organizations, and how AI will disrupt employment.

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☆ Google says court order on Disney app fee in India temporary
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Disney in India has gone to court in what is the latest and most high-profile challenge to Google's policy of imposing a "service fee" of 11-26% on in-app payments. The service charge was introduced after an antitrust directive ruled against Google's earlier 15-30% fee and forced Google to allow third-party payments. An Indian court on Tuesday said Google should receive a lower 4% fee for in-app purchases from Disney+ Hotstar, and cannot remove Disney's app from its India app store, in what is a significant challenge to Google's payments business model. Disney, which runs the popular Disney+ Hotstar streaming app in India, has challenged Google's new billing system in a court in India's Tamil Nadu state. Its lawyers had argued Google was threatening to remove the Hotstar app if it didn't comply with new payments system.

Persons: Aditya Kalra, Tanvi Mehta, Rama Venkat, Nivedita Bhattacharjee Organizations: NEW, Google, Disney, Thomson Locations: NEW DELHI, BENGALURU, India, India's Tamil Nadu, New Delhi, Bengaluru

☆ Google will block Canadian news outlets from search results in the country
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google told the Canadian government it would block articles from Canada-based news outlets from appearing in search results and other products in the country after the passage of a new bill that would require Google to pay a fee to news companies. The bill would have brought in $329 million for Canadian newsrooms annually, Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated, a revenue stream that now seems unlikely to materialize. It requires companies such as Meta and Google to pay media outlets when they link to news in search or feeds. From 2008 to 2018, 216 Canadian newsrooms closed their doors, according to researchers. Meta already said it would begin blocking Canadian news outlets from appearing on Facebook or Instagram after the bill's passage.

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☆ Google killed its Iris augmented reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google has killed off a project to build a pair of augmented reality glasses it had been working on for several years. In 2020, the company announced it purchased North, a Canadian startup that made AR glasses. Since shelving the Iris glasses, Google has focused on creating software platforms for AR that it hopes to license to other manufacturers building headsets. Two employees said it's possible Google may resurrect the Iris glasses one day and that some teams are still experimenting with AR technologies. Other teams were moved to work on the software platform and Samsung partnership, they said.

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☆ Google's new Pixel Tablet is perfect for smart home devotees
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTGoogle's new Pixel Tablet on its default Home screen. CNBCI've been breaking out of my usual wheelhouse and getting hands-on with Google's new Pixel Tablet for the last few days. What's good Hub Mode, Hub Mode, Hub Mode. For example, you could find a recipe from the couch, tote your Pixel Tablet to the kitchen and get to cooking. Google's Pixel Tablet in Chrome.

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☆ Google launches a new AI-powered tool that allows shoppers to see how clothes look on different models
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google announced new AI features to enhance users' online shopping experience. Online shoppers will be able to virtually see how items look on various models. Google selected models from sizes XXS to 4XL with different skin tones, ethnicities, and bodies. Google has introduced a new feature that allows online shoppers to try clothes on different models. A longstanding drawback of online shopping is the inability to see how an item actually looks on you before buying it.

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☆ Google is using AI to change how you shop
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The company on Wednesday announced a new virtual try-on feature that uses generative AI, the same technology underpinning a new crop of chatbots and image creation tools, to show clothes on a wide selection of body types. Google is also launching a feature that helps users find similar clothing pieces in different colors, patterns or styles, from merchants across the web, using a visual matching algorithm powered by AI. Google's new virtual try-on feature uses generative AI to show clothes on a wide selection of body types. Google isn’t the only e-commerce company blending generative AI into the shopping experience. And eBay recently rolled out an AI tool to help sellers generate product listing descriptions.

Persons: Bard Organizations: CNN, Google, Wednesday, XL, eBay

☆ How to talk about A.I. like an insider
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

AI ethics describes the desire to prevent AI from causing immediate harm, and often focuses on questions like how AI systems collect and process data and the possibility of bias in areas like housing or employment. AI safety describes the longer-term fear that AI will progress so suddenly that a super-intelligent AI might harm or even eliminate humanity. Alignment is the practice of tweaking an AI model so that it produces the outputs its creators desired. Inference — The act of using an AI model to make predictions or generate text, images, or other content. Large language model — A kind of AI model that underpins ChatGPT and Google's new generative AI features.

☆ Google's newest A.I. model uses nearly five times more text data for training than its predecessor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google's new large language model, which the company announced last week, uses almost five times as much training data as its predecessor from 2022, allowing its to perform more advanced coding, math and creative writing tasks, CNBC has learned. PaLM 2, the company's new general-use large language model (LLM) that was unveiled at Google I/O, is trained on 3.6 trillion tokens, according to internal documentation viewed by CNBC. Google's previous version of PaLM, which stands for Pathways Language Model, was released in 2022 and trained on 780 billion tokens. PaLM 2, according to internal documents, is trained on 340 billion parameters, an indication of the complexity of the model. The initial PaLM was trained on 540 billion parameters.

☆ This OpenAI channel is full of people sharing GPT prompts for everything from applying to jobs to learning a language
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There's a "prompt-library" channel on OpenAI's Discord server, where users are sharing tips. They're crafting GPT prompts to help elicit better responses to queries, or create writing and code. (There are sample prompts that help users get ChatGPT's help to prepare for interviews, for instance.) Other prompts help with learning new skills, like a language. Others seem to be for perhaps less above-board uses, like how to get advanced versions of OpenAI's advanced tools to produce content that could outsmart AI-detectors.

☆ OpenAI is rolling out a game-changing feature to ChatGPT this week that could revolutionize how we use the internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A new web-browsing feature for ChatGPT Plus users that will allow them to access real-time information. OpenAI, the company behind the AI chatbot, announced it will be rolling out new features to ChatGPT Plus users this week. Users who pay for ChatGPT Plus, which uses model GPT-4, will have access to a web-browsing feature that will provide up-to-date information. Some ChatGPT Plus users will have access to plug-ins that can integrate into existing platforms, as shown in this screenshot. ChatGPT Plus users will be able to use these features by clicking on their ChatGPT profile, pressing "Settings," then going to the "Beta features" tabs.

☆ Google's new A.I. search could hurt traffic to websites, publishers worry
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Instead of "ten blue links," the phrase that describes Google's usual search results, Google will show some users paragraphs of AI-generated text and a handful of links at the top of the results page. But website publishers are already worried if it becomes Google's default way of presenting search results, it could hurt them by sending fewer visitors to their sites and keeping them on Google.com. Rutledge Daugette, CEO of TechRaptor, a site focusing on gaming news and reviews, said Google's move was made without considering the interests of publishers and Google's AI amounts to lifting content. According to Search Engine Land, a news website that closely tracks changes to Google's search engine, the AI-generated results are displayed above the organic search results in testing so far. CNBC previously reported Google's plans to redesign its results page to promote generated AI content.

☆ How to get Google's new AI tool to write your emails
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google is launching "Help me write" an AI-tool that can generate responses to emails in Gmail. Users can deploy the tool to request a refund for a cancelled flight, for example. The tool also includes a "Refine" feature that can tweak the generated message's length and tone. In a demonstration of the tool, Pichai used "Help me write" to respond to an email saying that the recipient's flight got cancelled. These features, which will be available to "trusted testers," will eventually be part of Google's "Duet AI for Workspace" service, according to Pappu.

☆ Google's new AI-powered search is going to look very different
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google's new AI-driven search will look and feel different from the familiar list of search results. Google's classic search engine is getting an AI makeover. For over two decades, the search site has been defined by a plain search bar and a list of results. At its 2023 Google I/O event on Wednesday, the tech giant unveiled an AI-driven search engine with the overall goal of making "search smarter and searching simpler." On top of the more familiar list of search results, there will be an AI-generated summary response answering users' questions.

Leading AI developers, including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, NVIDIA Corp (NVDA.O), OpenAI, and Stability AI, will participate in a public evaluation of their AI systems. Shortly after Biden announced his reelection bid, the Republican National Committee produced a video featuring a dystopian future during a second Biden term, which was built entirely with AI imagery. Such political ads are expected to become more common as AI technology proliferates. In February, Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate bias in their AI use. The Biden administration has also released an AI Bill of Rights and a risk management framework.

☆ A senior software engineer dies after falling from the 14th floor of Google's NYC headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A software engineer died after falling from the 14th floor of Google's headquarters, NYPD confirmed. Police responded to a 911 call on Thursday reporting an unconscious person lying on the ground. The 31-year-old senior software engineer's name is being withheld pending family notification. A 31-year-old senior software engineer has died after falling from the 14th floor of Google's New York City office building, the New York Post first reported. The name of the engineer hasn't been released pending family notification, the NYPD said.

☆ This is Google’s new folding phone
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Just a few days ahead of its product launch, Google unveiled an early look at its first foldable smartphone. In a video posted to Twitter and YouTube, the company teased a Pixel phone with a vertical hinge that can be opened to reveal a tablet-like display. According to ABI Research, foldable and flexible displays made up about 0.7% of the smartphone market in 2021, and in 2022 expected to fall just shy of 2%. Google's new Pixel Fold smartphone From Google StoreHigh price points have limited consumer adoption, too. The Pixel Fold is rumored to start at $1,700.

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