Google's work in schools aims to create a 'pipeline of future users,' internal documents say

A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work." ...

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable “Personal Intelligence”

Google believes AI is the future of search, and it’s not shy about saying it. After adding account-level personalization to ...

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling

Google is appealing a federal court’s decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to ...

Google asks US judge to defer order forcing it to share data while it appeals

Alphabet's Google asked a judge on Friday to postpone making the company share data with rivals while it challenges a ruling that the company holds an illegal monopoly in online search, according to ...
Variety

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist Letter

Google has removed dozens of AI-generated videos that depicted Disney-owned characters after receiving a cease and desist letter from the studio on Wednesday. Disney flagged the YouTube links to the ...
AOL

How the RESISTORS Put Computing into 1960s Counter-culture

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone operators prevented exhibitors from linking their terminals to off-site computers, ...
Variety

Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’

As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI, the Mouse House is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI models and services to “commercially exploit and distribute” ...
Engadget

EU opens antitrust investigation into Google's AI practices

Google is no stranger to scrutiny from government bodies such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the European Commission. Now it can add ...
Becker's Hospital Review

3 states with high virus levels

Colorado, Louisiana and New York — particularly New York City — reported high levels of flu-like illness during the week ending Nov. 29, according to the latest CDC data on respiratory virus trends.
TechRepublic

Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 Brings High-Resolution Forecasting

Move over fortune-tellers, Google DeepMind and Google Research have launched yet another impressive leap in AI prediction. The new system, WeatherNext 2, is the company’s latest upgrade in AI-powered ...
TechCrunch

Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

Google DeepMind shared on Thursday a research preview of SIMA 2, the next generation of its generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning powers of Gemini, Google’s large language ...