AI
Google’s massively multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro preview shows a giant warming to its task
"Coming soon, we plan to introduce pricing tiers that start at the standard 128,000 context window and scale up to 1 million tokens"
Rust
Google punts $1 million towards work on Rust and C++ interoperability
The Carbon project also lives on...
AI
AI sends cloud earnings soaring, brings customers rushing for Google, Microsoft
Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"
Google hastily crosses legs and closes window on 'Incognito Mode' lawsuit
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit over claims that it had misrepresented the way in which it handles Incognito browser activity in Chrome
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Google to cough up $700m in antitrust settlement
Google has settled with a number of US states over a lawsuit regarding its handling of Android apps and pricing. The total fee will tally out at $700m
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Google praised for rollout of anti-tracking policy updates
Google has won praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after it issued a new set of policies and default settings for its Location History feature that could limit police overreach in surveillance and search
AI
Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show AI rewriting cloud businesses
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
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Killed by Google this week: Jamboard, Google Podcasts,
"Bit of strawberry Jam back there!"
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Google talks up AI, security for cloud
Google unveiled a series of AI-centric features for its various cloud offerings, with security in particular being a focus
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Russia threatens Google with 3 million ruble fine
Google faces a $32,000 fine in Russia after government officials claimed it failed to take down Ukraine-related YouTube content
Google moves forward with signature support
Google says its eSignature support for Docs and Drive has moved into the beta testing stage and will be open to test users
Google gets key ruling ahead of antitrust trial
Google has had several claims dismissed ahead of what looks to be a landmark antitrust case regarding its dominance over search and its associated markets