ALPHABET INC-CL A – pressnews

[ad_1] John Giannandrea, a former top Google executive who decamped to Apple Inc. to head its artificial intelligence business, pointed out a quiet change in the latest iPhone software update that allows users to select a search engine other than Google's when browsing the internet in private mode.The iOS 17, released Monday, added “a second setting, so you could choose two different” search engines, Giannandrea said in testimony in federal court in Washington as part of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google. The change means iPhone users can more easily switch between Google and a different search engine with a single tap. The difficulty of switching search engines has been hotly contested in US government's antitrust suit, which alleges that Google ill...

[ad_1] Google lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by an engineer who claims he was fired for challenging a paper the company published that touted the ability of artificial intelligence to speed the design of computer chips.In a tentative ruling Wednesday, a California state judge rejected the Alphabet Inc. unit's request to throw out Satrajit Chatterjee's wrongful termination and whistleblower protection claims. Chatterjee is at least the third researcher to be ousted by Google after butting heads with the company over the use of AI. Before Chatterjee was fired in March 2022, he was a senior engineering manager whose responsibilities included evaluating a chip design initiative called Project Morpheus. His dispute with Google followed its publication of a scientific paper in the journal Na...

Tag: ALPHABET INC-CL A

Apple AI Chief points out new private browser search at Google trial

Fired Google AI Engineer’s whistleblower lawsuit moves ahead