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Yesterday — 1 June 2024Main stream

Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws

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By: Nico Grant
1 June 2024 at 05:04
Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

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Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced A.I. Overviews, an A.I. feature in its search engine, last month.

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

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By: Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
1 June 2024 at 05:02
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.
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Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online

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By: Nico Grant
24 May 2024 at 23:10
The company’s latest A.I. search feature has erroneously told users to eat glue and rocks, provoking a backlash among users.

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Sundar Pichai, the Alphabet chief executive, spoke about Gemini at a Google I/O event in May.

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

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By: Nico Grant
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.

Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web?

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By: Kevin Roose
14 May 2024 at 14:16
Publishers have long worried that artificial intelligence would drive readers away from their sites. They’re about to find out if those fears are warranted.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Google’s plans to incorporate new A.I. into its search results could be a problem for publishers that count on traffic from the search engine.

Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules

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By: Cade Metz
8 May 2024 at 11:00
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.

© Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind’s new technology brings hope that the advances will significantly streamline the creation of new drugs and vaccines.

Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules

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By: Cade Metz
8 May 2024 at 11:00
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.

© Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind’s new technology brings hope that the advances will significantly streamline the creation of new drugs and vaccines.

Final Arguments in Google Antitrust Trial Conclude, Setting Up Landmark Ruling

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By: David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
3 May 2024 at 18:11
Judge Amit P. Mehta must now decide whether Google violated the law, potentially setting a precedent for a series of tech monopoly cases.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

The Justice Department and state attorneys general say that Google has abused a monopoly over the search business, stifling competitors and limiting innovation, something the company denies.

U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Is Just the Start

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By: Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
3 May 2024 at 05:06
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has vowed to take on Big Tech monopolies.

Why Google Employees Aren’t Reacting to US Antitrust Trial

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By: Nico Grant
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.

Judge Grills U.S. and Google on Antitrust Claims

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By: David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
2 May 2024 at 14:28
Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.

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Lawyers for the Department of Justice, including Kenneth Dintzer, front right, and Meagan Bellshaw, front left. The Justice Department has sued Google, accusing it of illegally shoring up a monopoly in online search.

The Judge Deciding Google’s Landmark Antitrust Case

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By: Steve Lohr
2 May 2024 at 05:03
Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.

© Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru; Photographs by Jim Wilson/The New York Times and Getty Images

Google Antitrust Trial Concludes With Closing Arguments

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By: David McCabe
2 May 2024 at 15:15
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and commerce.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

At the heart of the case in federal court in Washington is Google’s dominance in online search, which generates billions of dollars in profits annually.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

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By: Kenneth Chang
30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

© B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project

An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kenneth Chang
30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

© B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project

An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.

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

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
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.

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

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
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.

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade

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By: Karen Weise
27 April 2024 at 05:05
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

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Microsoft said generative A.I. had contributed to more than a fifth of the growth of its cloud computing business.

Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion

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By: Nico Grant
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.

In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Was Overwhelmed.

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By: David E. Sanger
24 April 2024 at 21:29
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

© Nicole Tung for The New York Times

Congress is about to provide billions more dollars to Kyiv, mostly in the form of ammunition and long-range artillery, but questions remain whether new artificial intelligence technology will be enough to help turn the tide of the war.

In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It’s Not Enough

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By: David Streitfeld
23 April 2024 at 10:28
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

© Thor Swift for The New York Times

Andreas Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, at the company’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., in 2007. He helped bankroll Google in 1998.

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract

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By: Nico Grant
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.

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

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By: Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
12 April 2024 at 00:01
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

© Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

“The issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.
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