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UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

Britain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to designate the company as holding strategic market status. Among them is a provision with sharp implications for the AI era: publishers will […]

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Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts

Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you can hang […]

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Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you’re going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do, check all the local […]

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Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika

Verily, the health and life sciences subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release up to 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California over two years. The proposal, submitted under the company’s Debug initiative, would deploy male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria into areas where […]

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Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending

Alphabet is raising $80bn in equity, an unusually large sum for a company that has rarely needed to ask. The Google parent announced the plan on Monday to help fund what it called investment in world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet unprecedented customer demand, and the structure of the raise is as telling as the […]

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