Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Google and Microsoft’s race to add AI chatbots to search results comes loaded with risk; Bing shows results in a sidebar with citations, something Google lacks — Here’s something you don’t see everyday: Microsoft Corp. is serving up a snazzy web search tool.
Read MoreGoogle has been scrambling to launch a competitor to ChatGPT — but perhaps rushing a little too hard. | Image: Google On Monday, Google announced its AI chatbot Bard — a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s due to become “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.” But the bot isn’t off to
Read MoreChatGPT is not as random as a human—for now.
Read MoreMedical systems disproportionately fail people of color, but a focus on fixing the numbers can actually lead to worse outcomes.
Read MoreMartin Coulter / Reuters: Google’s Bard announcement on Twitter included a GIF that shows the AI chatbot offering an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope — Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Google has announced a bevy of new updates coming soon. The updates are centered around Google Maps, Search, Lens, and Translate. Most of the updates are available now or will be available in the coming months. It’s been a few months, but if you remember, Google announced a slew
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to release “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months — Google is launching new updates for Maps that are part of its plan to make the navigation app more immersive and intuitive for users …
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Google details AI updates: expanding multisearch globally on mobile, new features for EV drivers, Lens translation, and updates to Translate — Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.
Read More(Photo: gtastuntcrew302 on eBay)It’s tempting to write the 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 holds a special place in all of our hearts. However, most of us never got to actually buy one and game with it, as it never came to market. Instead, we all remember it as the embodiment of a dream unfulfilled. It represented
Read MoreReuters: Alibaba says it is developing a ChatGPT-style AI tool, currently in internal testing, confirming a news report; Baidu announced its Ernie chatbot on February 6 — China’s Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Wednesday said it is developing a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) tool and that it was currently in internal testing.
Read MoreWashington Post: A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with ex-Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James Baker, and Yoel Roth on Hunter Biden laptop “censorship” — Updated just now — A congressional hearing today promises a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google, the company ubiquitous to online web searches, is set to reveal news on how it’ll use AI to help find what you’re looking for in a more “natural and intuitive” way. Google’s been using AI and machine learning models to achieve things like removing unwanted objects in your photos with Magic
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Acceldata, which offers a data observability service used by Oracle, Verisk, and others, raised a $50M Series C led by March Capital, taking its funding to $96M — Acceldata, the company behind a data observability platform used by multinational enterprises including Oracle and Verisk …
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/Xiaomi The Xiaomi 13 Pro will launch in India on February 26. We’re expecting the series to come to global markets as well. Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 13 series late last year, but the company seems to be taking its time to bring the new flagship phones to global markets. Fortunately, it looks like
Read MoreGoogle on YouTube: A live stream of Google’s AI search event in Paris, where the company is expected to add longer text responses powered by generative AI to Search — We’re reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need.
Read MoreLegal experts say a key law should already prevent brokers from collecting and selling data that’s weaponized against vulnerable people.
Read MoreA key tool in the early pandemic response, monoclonal antibodies are now ineffective against new variants. Immunocompromised patients are especially at risk.
Read MoreSupersmart algorithms won’t take all the jobs, But they are learning faster than ever, doing everything from medical diagnostics to serving up ads.
Read MoreIn Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive using ethylene glycol, which is commonly found in antifreeze. While superluminal travel has been regarded as impossible for many years,
Read MoreRetirement planning can easily be overlooked while juggling your career, raising children, paying off debt, and enjoying today. In fact, according to a Bankrate survey conducted in 2022, 55 percent of American workers are behind on their retirement savings. If you want to create a financially secure future, however, you need to know what options
Read MoreIllustration of Rolls-Royce’s nuclear micro-reactor at work. (Image: Rolls-Royce Holdings)The Rolls-Royce brand might be known for its exorbitantly luxurious cars, but those $300,000 sedans are technically now under BMW’s umbrella. Rolls-Royce Holdings, a company that’s remained separate from the auto brand since the late 1990s, nowadays focuses on carbon-free energy and aerospace innovations. Its latest
Read MoreKellen Browning / New York Times: Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings rose 19% YOY to $30.7B, and a record 2.1B customer trips, up 19% YoY; UBER jumps 7%+ pre-market — The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from
Read MoreKatharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA finds Microsoft’s proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition will harm competition in the UK’s gaming market and asks Microsoft for remedies — Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market, Britain’s antitrust watchdog has provisionally found.
Read MorePolitico: UK PM Rishi Sunak creates the standalone Department of Science, Innovation & Technology, led by Michelle Donelan, stripping the DCMS of its tech oversight — LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is creating a standalone science, innovation and technology department as part …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: US officials and researchers say TikTok’s proposed algorithm oversight faces practical difficulties and may not offer answers on possible Chinese influence — Concerns mount over TikTok’s plan to address potential Chinese influence over what videos Americans see — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
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