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Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit in the United States that claimed it violated users’ privacy by tracking them even in incognito mode. This was reported by the BBC. The motion was filed in 2020 and demanded compensation of at least $5 billion. Google submitted a settlement agreement, the terms of which were not […]
Google may cut some of its staff due to the introduction of AI tools that automate the process of selling advertising. This was reported by PCMAG. The advertising business is one of the main sources of Google’s revenue, which in 2022 amounted to more than $200 billion. According to available data, Google’s advertising division currently […]
A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and BerriAI found that Google’s Gemini Pro language model was less efficient than the GPT-3 model.5 Turbo from OpenAI in most of the test tasks, writes VentureBeat. The test included multiple-choice questions in various subject areas, as well as logic tasks. Gemini Pro showed weaker results, especially in […]
Google has introduced an updated version of its Imagen neural network for image generation. Imagen 2 has expanded capabilities for creating texts and logos based on text prompts. The new model was developed with the involvement of specialists from DeepMind, a division of Google specializing in artificial intelligence technologies. According to the engineers, Imagen 2 […]
Google has published a ranking of search queries for 2023, analyzing what Ukrainians searched for most often and what topics gained the most interest during this year. This is stated in the final rating from Google. For example, among the year’s highlights, the Air Alert Map query took the top spot. The second place was […]
Google is working on a project that aims to use artificial intelligence technology to create a picture of users’ lives “in retrospect” using mobile phone data such as photos and search queries. This was reported by CNBC. The project, codenamed Ellmann and named after the literary critic Richard Ellmann, involves using Gemini to process search […]
Android phones now automatically send medical data when you call emergency services. Service specialists receive data on a person’s name, age, blood type, and emergency contacts through the RapidSOS function. Last year, Google expanded the capabilities of Personal Safety in Android by enabling a potentially “life-saving” feature that can transfer important medical data (age, weight, […]
Google has unveiled a new advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model called Gemini, which, according to Google, can significantly outperform the current leader Chat GPT. The company is placing huge bets on the new model in 2024 and calls it a breakthrough in custom AI. According to Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, it is time for a […]
Unknown governments are monitoring smartphone users on both Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS via push notifications. This was stated by US Senator Ron Wyden in a letter to the US Department of Justice, Reuters reports. Wyden claims that foreign officials are demanding data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Without elaborating, the senator described the way […]
Google has unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence model, Gemini, capable of processing various types of information and running on any device. This was reported in the Google blog. The company noted that the Gemini is the most powerful and versatile model they have ever created. Gemini is multimodal, meaning that it can summarize and […]