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Today — 1 June 2024Main stream

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

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.

© Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

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

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

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.

© Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

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

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.

© Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

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.

© 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

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.
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