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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s New Update Beats Apple iPhone Feature On Android Phones  Forbes Source link

Enlarge / The Google Phone’s Play Store listing still touts Nearby Places as a major feature. Google 9to5Google reports that Google has killed off the Google Phone app’s “nearby places” feature. Google announced the impending death of the feature in February, saying: “We’ve found only a very small number of people use this feature, and the vast majority of users go to Google Search or Maps when seeking… Source link

(Reuters) -Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the situation. The negotiations are about licensing Gemini for some new features coming to the iPhone software this year, the report said, adding that the terms or branding of an AI agreement or how it would be implemented have not been decided. It is unlikely that any deal would be announced until June, when Apple plans to hold… Source link

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google enjoys a competitive edge in generative artificial intelligence due to its trove of data and AI-optimised chips, Microsoft has told EU antitrust regulators, underscoring the rivalry between the two tech giants. The comments by Microsoft were in response to a consultationlaunched by the European Commission in January on the level of competition in generative AI. The growing popularity of generative AI, which can generate human-like… Source link

Enlarge / Even hunt-and-fetch quests are better with a little AI help. At this point in the progression of machine-learning AI, we’re accustomed to specially trained agents that can utterly dominate everything from Atari games to complex board games like Go. But what if an AI agent could be trained not just to play a specific game but also to interact with any generic 3D environment? And what if that AI was… Source link

Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing. SIMA, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is currently only in research. SIMA will eventually learn how to play any video game, even games with no linear path to end the game and open-world games. Though it’s not intended to replace existing game AI, think of it more as another player that meshes well with your… Source link

Enlarge / Google’s Bay View campus was designed with the world’s strangest roof line. Google Google’s swanky new “Bay View” campus apparently has a major problem: bad Wi-Fi. Reuters reports that Google’s first self-designed office building has “been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter.” A Google spokesperson confirmed the problems and said… Source link

There is little to choose between premium Samsung or Apple or even Google smartphones these days. It’s the iPhone versus Android operating systems that set them apart. Now that’s changing as well—and Google’s surprise new update plugs another iPhone-shaped hole on Android devices. 3/10 update below; article originally published 3/8. Android is changing and changing quickly. On the device side, there’s now little between premium devices—primarily from Samsung—and the latest… Source link

So in January, when the Amazon founder invested in a company seeking to take Google’s place in the food chain, people sat up and took notice.  Bezos took part in a $74m investment in Perplexity, a San Francisco start-up that aims to answer queries with artificial intelligence rather than a list of links.  Type a question into the app – how to roast a chicken – and it will confidently answer with a couple of sentences and a few bullet points, rather than… Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Google Google has unveiled its new headquarters in New York. The office, which is next to the Hudson River, features 1.5 acres of plants. The tech giant has doubled its New York headcount from 7,000 in 2018 to 14,000 in 2024. Google opened the doors to its new headquarters in New York in February. The structure was built on top of a three-story 1930s rail terminal, which used to be the end point of the High Line, a… Source link