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Google’s Advanced Technology Review Council, a panel of executives that includes Jeff Dean, the company’s senior vice president of research and artificial intelligence, and Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, met less than two weeks after ChatGPT debuted to discuss their company’s initiatives, according to the slide presentation. They reviewed plans for products that were expected to debut at Google’s company conference in May, including Image… Source link

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has called on Israel to refrain from provocations that could worsen the situation with Palestine, saying Beijing supports a fair and permanent solution to the issue. “China is deeply worried” about the recent escalation of tensions between Israel and Palestine, Qin said in the Egyptian capital Cairo – his last stop on a five-nation African tour and first overseas trip since taking office in December. “Israel should stop all incitement and provocation and avoid… Source link

Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls starting today. The company said that this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon. The search giant first announced this feature last year, but it is reaching users just now. Users can click or tap on the smile icon on the bottom pane to post a reaction emoji — with support for different skin tones — on the video call. When… Source link

Google is making Meet more social with a new feature called in-meeting reactions. The idea is that users can send one of nine emoji reactions, including 💖👍 and 😂, which will appear on the recipient’s window and be visible to all in the meeting. If multiple users send emojis, they’ll appear as a burst on the left side of your screen.  To use the function, you select the smile icon in the control bar, and can hover on the bar that pops up to select the skin tone of your choice for… Source link

Tyson Fury’s post-fight comments were more exciting than his bout Saturday against Derek Chisora at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) There has never been a heavyweight like Tyson Fury. He’s the size of an NBA power forward, has the wit of a stand-up comic, power that rivals that of boxing’s best ever punchers and the skills of a man 100 pounds lighter. He’s a guy who less than five years ago was contemplating suicide and now, in… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk has an ally in his fight with Apple (AAPL): Meta Platforms (META) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Speaking Wednesday at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, Zuckerberg criticized the iPhone-maker over App Store policies that for years have negatively impacted his own business. “I do think Apple has singled themselves out as the only company trying to control unilaterally what apps get on the device,” Zuckerberg said. “I don’t think… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Even Google isn’t immune to the severe downturn in the tech sector. Although more than 135,000 white-collar professionals in the tech and startup space have been downsized year to date, the giant search engine has avoided this trend. Amidst pressure from an activist hedge fund, adverse market conditions and a need to cut costs, Google launched a ranking system and… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the first time since records began. Auto sales have fallen over 60% so far this year, and may end up being less than a quarter of what they were a decade ago, according to Maxim Sokolov, head of Russia’s top carmaker Avtovaz. Some of this year’s drop is due to the pullout of foreign… Source link

The hedge fund of the billionaire Sir Christopher Hohn has written to Alphabet saying staff at the Google and YouTube parent are paid too much and its workforce should be drastically cut back. London-based TCI, which has been a significant investor in the company since 2017 and holds a stake valued at $6bn (£5.1bn), has written to its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, urging it to emulate cost-cutting measures introduced by big tech rivals including the Facebook-owner, Meta, Amazon and… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said investors should sell S&P 500 Index calls and fund buying of the same options on the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index to position for a likely catch-up in battered China-related assets. Most Read from Bloomberg “Sentiment on China-exposed assets has remained subdued this year and did not mirror the risk appetite rebound during the summer,” undershooting a measure of investor mood for global growth, strategists including Christian… Source link