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Google pays Apple nearly $20 bn a year to be on your iPhone, but this fantastic deal is in danger
12Oct By adminNo Comments
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Google pays Apple nearly $20 bn a year to be on your iPhone, but this fantastic deal is in danger

[ad_1] Amid the sensational US Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust case against Google, where the legality of the company's deal with Apple is under contention, through which it has become the default search engine on iPhones, a new report has made a major revelation on just how much is being paid. The antitrust case intends to find whether anti-competition practices were used by Google to keep itself as the default search engine on iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and other models. Recently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in the case and called it a ‘problematic' behavior of tech companies to strike exclusive deals with platforms to keep competition away.Bernstein, a firm that advises investors on where to place their bets, has published a report where it has reiterat...
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ChatGPT can now search for data on the internet
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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ChatGPT can now search for data on the internet

[ad_1] The generative AI platform ChatGPT can now fetch data directly from the internet and gather up-to-date information in real-time, its creator OpenAI said Wednesday, in a major milestone for the software.Until now, ChatGPT's responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021. "ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources," OpenAI said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "It is no longer limited to data before September 2021." It also said that the latest feature would allow sites to control how ChatGPT interacts with them.OpenAI launched the update for its paying subscribers in June, but suspended it after users managed to bypass paywa...
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DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google

[ad_1] DuckDuckGo, a privacy-centric search engine founded about 15 years ago, has languished with a small market share as consumers face difficulties switching from Google when the behemoth is the default option on computer screens, the upstart's founder said in an antitrust trial.“Switching is way harder than it needs to be,” Chief Executive Officer Gabriel Weinberg said in federal court on Thursday. “There's just too many steps.” Weinberg testified Thursday in the government's antitrust trial against Google's parent, Alphabet Inc. The Department of Justice claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to tech rivals, smartphone makers and wireless providers to be the preselected option, or default, on PCs and mobile phones. By illegally maintaining this monopoly, the government all...
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Microsoft Is Rolling Out Generative AI in Windows and Office App
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Is Rolling Out Generative AI in Windows and Office App

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. said its AI assistant for Windows will start rolling out Sept. 26 and the Office AI app will be widely available Nov. 1 as the software giant continues to bake generative artificial intelligence into its products.Microsoft's Copilot-branded AI assistants will provide a unified experience across operating systems, applications and devices, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said Thursday at an event in New York. For example, Microsoft showed how a user can ask Copilot to find a flight booking from text messages. “We've seen that the most magical and empowering moments people have experienced with AI is when it's informed with the context that extends way beyond what's in front of them,” Nadella said. “This requires that what we think of today as separa...
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Microsoft Surface Event: From Copilot to Bing, know all the AI-linked announcements
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Surface Event: From Copilot to Bing, know all the AI-linked announcements

[ad_1] Microsoft hosted its Surface Event 2023 in New York today where products such as Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Laptop Go 3 have just been unveiled. It was Microsoft's first in-person event since the pandemic, but for some reason it is not being live-streamed, which is unusual for a tech company trying to generate hype for its services as well as hardware. In the last few years, one of Microsoft's primary focuses has been on artificial intelligence (AI). Building upon the Microsoft Build Event 2023, Microsoft has announced several new AI features today.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage, highlighting two specific breakthroughs in AI - a new natural interface and reasoning engine, as per Tom's Guide. These two changes have enabled computers to make sense of people,...
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Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure

[ad_1] The US Department of Justice has removed public access to emails, charts and internal presentations from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that had come out as evidence in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the tech titan.Google had challenged the government's posting of the documents online, and the court was sympathetic to its concerns. The result: a trial much more difficult for the public to follow than the similarly monumental and widely watched antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s. The trial, which is expected to last 10 weeks, is the biggest legal reckoning for a big tech company since then. With all the exhibits and evidence unearthed for discussion, it's also a rare look at the inner workings of one of the most influential businesses of the modern era. As the Jus...
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Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn vow more ads transparency
26Aug By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn vow more ads transparency

[ad_1] Microsoft will provide more information on targeted adverts and protect users against any new risks from artificial intelligence, the company vowed Friday, as stringent EU rules on tech platforms enter into force.Internet giants must now enforce the milestone EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), which demands they protect users online from harmful content and be more transparent about their algorithms. The European Union has named 19 platforms, the majority of whom are based in the United States, including Microsoft's Bing and LinkedIn as well as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. The rules apply from Friday to these "very large" social media networks and websites.One of the most significant demands under the DSA is the requirement to give users the option to have a non-person...
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Europe’s new rules for Google, Facebook, TikTok, others about to kick in. Here’s how they work
23Aug By adminNo Comments
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Europe’s new rules for Google, Facebook, TikTok, others about to kick in. Here’s how they work

[ad_1] Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online.The first phase of the European Union's groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. The Digital Services Act is part of a suite of tech-focused regulations crafted by the 27-nation bloc — long a global leader in cracking down on tech giants. The DSA, which the biggest platforms must start following Friday, is designed to keep users safe online and stop the spread of harmful content that's either illegal or violates a platform's terms of service, such as promotion of genocide or anorexia. It also looks to protect Europeans' fundamental rights like privacy and free speech. Some online platforms, which cou...
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Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI
19Jul By adminNo Comments
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Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI

[ad_1] Apple Inc. is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and others, but the company has yet to devise a clear strategy for releasing the technology to consumers.The iPhone maker has built its own framework to create large language models — the AI-based systems at the heart of new offerings like ChatGPT and Google's Bard — according to people with knowledge of the efforts. With that foundation, known as “Ajax,” Apple also has created a chatbot service that some engineers call “Apple GPT.” In recent months, the AI push has become a major effort for Apple, with several teams collaborating on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The work includes trying to a...
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Microsoft to charge more for AI in office, secure Bing from leaks
19Jul By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft to charge more for AI in office, secure Bing from leaks

[ad_1] Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53% more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology.The company also said it would make a more secure version of its Bing search engine available immediately to businesses, aiming to address their data-protection concerns, grow their interest in AI and compete more with Google. At its virtual Inspire conference, the company said customers would pay $30 per user, per month for its AI copilot in Microsoft 365, which promises to draft emails in Outlook, pen documents in Word and make virtually all an employee's data accessible via the prompt of a chatbot. The voluntary upgrade is on top of publicly listed, monthly plans ranging ...
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