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Google Reportedly Spent $2.7 Billion to Rehire Character.AI Founder
artificial intelligence // September 25, 2024

Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to rehire ex-employee/AI guru Noam Shazeer. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Shazeer, who co-authored research that helped popularize artificial intelligence (AI), left Google in frustration after the company refused to release a chatbot he had developed. He started his own company, Character.AI, which...

Google Makes Gemini Live AI Chatbot Available to All Android Users
artificial intelligence // September 15, 2024

Google has made Gemini Live, its voice artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, available for free to all Android users.  The offering is notable, Ars Technica said in a report Friday (Sept. 13), because rival OpenAI’s similar voice feature has yet to fully ship. Google debuted Gemini...

Google Cloud CEO: 60% of AI Startups Use Our Tech
News // September 11, 2024

Google Cloud’s CEO says his company has several paths to monetizing artificial intelligence (AI). “We have seen 10-times growth year over year of people using our clusters,” Thomas Kurian said Tuesday (Sept. 10) at a Goldman Sachs tech conference. “Sixty percent of all AI startups...

Google to Move Retailers to New AI-Driven Merchant Platform
Google // July 24, 2024

Google is moving all retailers to a new version of its Merchant Center. The change should happen by September, the tech giant wrote on its blog Wednesday (July 24), giving merchants “plenty of time to get acclimated and start benefiting from the updates before the...

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Report: Google Exploring AI That Can Take Over Web Browsers

October 27, 2024
Google is reportedly developing an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can take over web browsers. The tech giant plans to show off this AI product — which carries the codename “Project Jarvis” — as soon as December, when it rolls out its next Gemini large language model, The Information reported Saturday (Oct. 26). OpenAI is […]

Google Reportedly Spent $2.7 Billion to Rehire Character.AI Founder

September 25, 2024
Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to rehire ex-employee/AI guru Noam Shazeer. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Shazeer, who co-authored research that helped popularize artificial intelligence (AI), left Google in frustration after the...

Google Makes Gemini Live AI Chatbot Available to All Android Users

September 15, 2024
Google has made Gemini Live, its voice artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, available for free to all Android users.  The offering is notable, Ars Technica said in a report Friday (Sept....

Google Cloud CEO: 60% of AI Startups Use Our Tech

September 11, 2024
Google Cloud’s CEO says his company has several paths to monetizing artificial intelligence (AI). “We have seen 10-times growth year over year of people using our clusters,” Thomas Kurian said...