sundar pichai
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Google Tells Employees to Stay Away from Its Own Bard Chatbot
As Google continues to refine its own AI chatbot named Bard, its parent company Alphabet Inc. has a clear directive for its employees: Be careful around chatbots, even Bard.
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6 Cringey Times U.S. Politicians Didn’t Know Tech
Congresspeople — ok, let’s just call them the more “seasoned” codgers of congress — have routinely shown they have very little conception of technology. And while it may be cute to watch your parents call your new Steam Deck a “Nintendo,” it’s much less funny when a politician in charge of creating legislation impacting the…
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Google Denies Facebook Ad Collusion In Motion to Dismiss States’ Antitrust Suit
Google’s week of combative antitrust pushback came to a fitting conclusion on Friday with the company filing a motion to dismiss large parts of an antitrust case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of other states. Among other things, the new complaint filed last week accused Google of colluding with Facebook…
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Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of the Search Business, Lawsuit Claims
At this point, it’s a bit of an open secret that Google likely pays Apple billions of dollars each year to remain the default search engine that crops up on people’s iPhones and Mac computers. Now, a new class-action suit is alleging that the tech titans’ dealings go even farther than that. An antitrust case…