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Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Mickey Vernon

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it ...

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Mickey Vernon

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the ...

Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly

Mickey Vernon

A jury in December found that Google broke US antitrust laws through deals and billing rules that gave an unfair ...

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

Mickey Vernon

One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they ...

Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI ripped off her voice

Lawrence Booth

Actor Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman used a voice similar to hers for its artificial intelligence voice software ...

B.C. cuts deal with Meta, Google on youth safety, emergency info

Adesola Mojo

The B.C. government and social media giants have made what they call a “historic collaboration” for youth safety online. A ...

Google staffers question execs over ‘decline in morale’ after earnings

John Ray

Google’s business is growing at its fastest rate in two years, and a blowout earnings report in April sparked the ...

Alphabet shares jump 14% on earnings beat, first-ever dividend

John Ray

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Source: Google Alphabet shares rallied in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported results that ...

Google: ‘Things are changing’: Google search’s chief highlights challenging times ahead for employees

Mickey Vernon

At a recent company-wide all-hands meeting, Google’s search leader, Prabhakar Raghavan, addressed the changing realities facing the tech giant. According ...