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Google Unveils AI Overviews Feature for Search at 2024 I/O Conference

14 May 2024 at 15:35
The tech giant showed off how it would enmesh A.I. more deeply into its products and users’ lives, from search to so-called agents that perform tasks.

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On Tuesday, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, showed how the company’s aggressive work on A.I. had finally trickled into its search engine.

Why Google Employees Aren’t Reacting to US Antitrust Trial

3 May 2024 at 10:29
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Despite an antitrust lawsuit, it has been business as usual on Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion

25 April 2024 at 17:46
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

© John Taggart for The New York Times

In the last year, Google has incorporated A.I. into nearly every facet of its product portfolio.

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract

18 April 2024 at 14:17
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

© Nathan Frandino/Reuters

A protest on Tuesday in a parking lot in Sunnyvale, Calif., near the Google Cloud offices.

Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza

8 April 2024 at 14:35
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

© Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Google’s management has tried to rein in the company’s once freewheeling culture.

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Researchers at OpenAI’s office in San Francisco developed a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to amass conversational text for A.I. development.

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

1 April 2024 at 19:11
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.

© Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Google said it would stop using technology that detects when users enable private browsing, so it can no longer track people’s choice to use Incognito mode.
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