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Mozilla has decided to be more vocal about the ways in which Apple, Google, and Microsoft set technical requirements that have hindered development of its Firefox web browser, and therefore harmed competition. Many of the competitive barriers have been discussed for years – in technical circles, and behind closed doors with regulators. During those years, Firefox’s 30 percent of the global browser market share slipped steadily. Today, just over three percent of browser users… Source link

Mass layoffs at Google, eBay: a market correction not an economic alarm, experts say | KMPHPlease ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes ofwebsite accessibility Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:09:53 GMT (1706148593829) a9269422ad81594ce3a51838ebc32a9751a7681b 95ab5c147d0b70d4c47b4658fa1b755d849ed77e Fallback Presentation. Using deprecated PresentationRouter. Source link

Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. On Tuesday, Google announced Lumiere, an AI video generator that it calls “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation” in the accompanying preprint paper. But let’s not kid ourselves: It does a great job at creating videos of cute animals in ridiculous scenarios, such as using roller… Source link

OnLeaks / 91Mobiles It seems that the upcoming Google Pixel 9 series of smartphones will cease to be secret way ahead of their official launch later this year. Merely a day after leak-based renders of the Pixel 9 Pro made their way online, the vanilla Pixel 9 has also been given the same unceremonious treatment. Most recently, 91Mobiles has shared what it claims are design renders of the Google Pixel 9, which looks almost identical to its Pro variant, save for the smaller dimensions…. Source link

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Google is investing $8 million to support Israeli tech firms and Palestinian businesses, the Alphabet-owned group said on Wednesday, citing the need for small companies to secure financing during the Israel-Hamas war. Google said its $4 million support fund would be provided to AI startups in Israel and another $4 million would go to early-stage Palestinian startups and businesses to help them continue operating. The grant to Israeli AI startups will be in… Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google until 2011. John Lamparski/Getty Images Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reportedly been building a startup called White Stork. New details emerged after Forbes previously reported on the project’s existence earlier this month. Schmidt previously told Wired that AI has the potential to revolutionize US military equipment. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is building a military… Source link

Image Credits: Sean Gallup / Getty Images Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The company said that soon, AI will help with suggestions for questions at different timestamps. The company first… Source link

We’ve come a long way from Will Smith eating spaghetti in the last 10 months. AI-generated video is advancing at a jaw-dropping rate – and Google’s extraordinary new space-time diffusion model Lumiere shifts the goalposts yet again. Lumiere can create remarkably realistic – or high quality surrealistic – video clips up to five seconds in length. It can animate still images, or just portions of them, in response to natural language text prompts about what you’d like to see. It can take… Source link

Google ended its contract with Appen, an Australian data company involved in training its large language model AI tools used in Bard, Search, and other products, even as the competition to develop generative AI tools increases. “Our decision to end the contract was made as part of our ongoing effort to evaluate and adjust many of our supplier partnerships across Alphabet to ensure our vendor operations are as efficient as possible,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in a… Source link

Google Using the Chrome browser is about to get a little easier and a little more efficient thanks to the addition of three new AI-assisted features set to roll out soon. First up is something Google calls “tab groups,” which lets users organize a large collection of tabs. With this feature, Chrome will automatically suggest and then create groups based on what tabs you have open – especially useful if you’re working on multiple projects at once or planning a trip where you’re, say,… Source link