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Sometime in the past year, Google launched a film and TV production initiative called 100 Zeros in a multi-year partnership with management company Range Media Partners. The Big Picture: 100 Zeros takes a more arm’s-length approach to influencing the entertainment industry in comparison to its foray as a full-fledged premium streaming service with YouTube Originals. […]
Google has developed an AI model that can control robots, blending language, vision, and physical-data training — allowing them to do physical tasks and, allegedly, make decisions about their behavior to guard against doing something unsafe. Why It Hits: As chatbots take over the mainstream, robotics is seen as the final frontier of AI. Several companies are […]
Google and HP have pulled back the curtain on a new 3D video communications platform called “Project Starline,” which it plans on rolling out this year. Why It Clicks: Despite videoconferencing becoming an economic lifesaver during COVID lockdown, Zoom fatigue is the real deal — our brain doesn’t do well with being in virtual meetings all day. But […]
Google’s DeepMind unit created an artist-mimicking AI music generator, codenamed “Orca,” that allegedly worked so well the tech giant couldn’t release it for fear of legal fallout. Why It Hits: It’s no secret that AI systems have been trained on vast amounts of copyrighted data. It’s what makes them so powerful… and a disaster when it comes to the law. […]
Today, Google and the Justice Department are set to go head-to-head on whether Google’s dominance in digital advertising is monopolistic — a verdict that could radically change the market and give competitors a chance. The Big Picture: The ad market trial comes just weeks after the DOJ prevailed in its case against Google that its search market power was […]
The Future. A federal judge has sided with the Department of Justice that Google is a monopoly in both the search and search-powered ad market — the biggest antitrust ruling since the case against Microsoft in 2000. The verdict may cast a long shadow over similar cases against Amazon, Apple, and Meta. With Google likely […]
Chrome launches AI article summaries
Google’s been clear about what the public version of MusicLM can & can’t do.
Reddit has a bone to pick with AI companies.
Google has given itself a major update, changing the way people search, the way search results are presented, and how people can interact with the world around them using Google products.