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Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business ‘fair and square’

Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision “crashed” through legal guardrails. “Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square,” it writes in its legal filing. Google had already said it would appeal the ruling, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its […]

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Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term “disregard,” instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot, as called out by a […]

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Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure

Wingtech Technology has filed a lawsuit against its own subsidiary, Nexperia, in a Chinese court. The case, lodged at the Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court, seeks at least 8 billion yuan, roughly $1.1 billion, in damages. It is the first major legal challenge to a European government’s forced seizure of a Chinese-owned chipmaker. The dispute centres […]

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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” has many of the hallmarks […]

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Microsoft’s consumer marketing chief to leave next year

Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, is leaving the company after 35 years. Mehdi announced his departure in an internal memo on Thursday, noting that he will leave Microsoft next year. He will remain focused on marketing for Windows, Copilot for consumers, and the Microsoft 365 consumer business until […]

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Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button

Microsoft is rolling out Office app updates next week that allow users to disable a floating Copilot button. The button appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in recent weeks, and floats above the bottom right-hand section of spreadsheets or documents. It has angered many Excel users in particular, because it obstructs cells and you can’t […]

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Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction

Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company’s first earbuds featuring the Thus AI audio chip Anker announced last month, here being used to bolster noise reduction capabilities and help ensure the user’s voice can be clearly heard during calls, even in […]

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Anker’s new earbuds have the best call quality I’ve ever heard

Soundcore, Anker’s audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it’s aiming at the big guys. The two new earbuds – the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max – use Anker’s new Thus chip, which has more processing power than previous Soundcore earbuds to […]

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Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI

Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use privacy settings, including the switch for turning off all present and future AI features. Mozilla calls the redesign “Project Nova” and plans to begin rolling it out later this year. It features rounded UI […]

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