Google’s NotebookLM allows you to experiment with an AI chat system focused on sources you select. The tool leverages Google Gemini, a highly capable AI system, not only to generate chat responses based on your sources but also to help you organize and explore the content within your sources. For example, you may add multiple …
Google will soon start identifying when content in search and ad results is generated by AI — if you know where to look. In a Sep. 17 blog post, the tech giant announced that, in the coming months, metadata in search, images, and ads will indicate whether an image was photographed with a camera, edited …
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Google has successfully overturned a €1.5 billion antitrust fine it was handed by the European Commission five years ago. Judges at the European General Court annulled the decision because the Commission had made errors in its assessment of the company’s advertising contracts. Specifically, the Commission had not demonstrated that Google’s contracts with publishers had potentially …
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A review of emissions reports from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple by The Guardian revealed that actual emissions could be up to 662% higher than the companies’ official statements, The Guardian announced on Sep. 15. The discrepancy is largely attributed to the difference between direct, “location-based” emissions at company facilities and the purchase of renewable …
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Backup and recovery are critical in catastrophic cases that affect an organization’s entire Google Cloud account. Having an untouchable, logically air-gapped version adds a layer of reassurance for high-stakes data. On Sept. 10, Google Cloud beefed up its backup and disaster recovery services with an unmodifiable vault. The service is currently in preview mode, but …
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Apple has been ordered to pay back €13 billion ($14.4 billion) worth of tax to Ireland by the European Court of Justice. Two of its subsidiaries illegally received tax benefits between 1991 and 2014, as these benefits were not available to other companies. Ireland issued tax rulings favouring Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe …
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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally ruled that Google’s dominance in the ad tech market is detrimental to competitors — and could fine the tech giant up to 10% of its global annual turnover as a result. Since at least 2015, the company has allegedly been operating its tools for ad space buyers …
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Google on Aug. 31 began removing certain Android apps from its Play Store, citing a desire to provide “a stable, responsive, and engaging user experience.” The move, part of the company’s latest updated spam and minimum functionality policy, is one that could affect developers. Apps with “limited functionality and content,” such as those that are …
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Meta’s new approach to handling advertiser data has been approved by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority. This comes ahead of the rollout of a new digital markets competition regime, which will grant it more power to quash the monopolistic behaviours of big tech companies. As well as approving Meta’s commitments, the CMA has also …
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Google showed off its next-generation Pixel 9 phones, its new Gemini AI features, the Pixel Watch 3, and the Pixel Buds Pro 2 at the Made by Google presentation on Aug. 13, streamed from Mountain View, California. The technology represents Google’s efforts to strengthen its ecosystem with AI, Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of platforms …
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