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As Google injects artificial intelligence into every product it possibly can, it’s also turning to AI to make its business more efficient. The company has launched a large language model named Goose that’s just for employees. It is designed to assist with building new products, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. The documents describe Goose as a “descendant of Gemini,” its big new large language model. Goose is “trained on the sum total of 25 years of… Source link

An internal Google document laid out a theory for why the company has become so slow. A former employee who created the presentation compared Google to slime mold. The document posited that bottom-up cultures like Google’s could create “coordination headwinds.” As Google has swelled in size to over 186,000 people, many of its employees and even its CEO have complained… Source link

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient — a comment some in the industry took to mean headcount reductions could soon be on the table. Now, it seems that prediction may be coming true. TechCrunch has learned and Google confirmed the company is slashing projects at its in-house R&D division known as Area 120. The company on Tuesday informed staff of a “reduction in force” which will see the… Source link

The documents bolster the committee’s claims that the internet giants illegally favor their own products, a practice that pending legislation to update antitrust laws would make more difficult. “It is time for Congress to act,” Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David N. Cicilline (D-RI) said in a statement. Heavily redacted internal Google documents appear to show, for example, how Google pressured mobile phone makers including Samsung to prioritize its own apps on their devices. In a… Source link

BlackRock (BLK), the world’s largest asset manager, is set to expand its health care plan to cover travel expenses for U.S. employees seeking abortion services, per an internal memo obtained exclusively by Yahoo Finance. The company joins a growing docket of firms on Wall Street making similar commitments following Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Through company-sponsored health insurance, we have long provided reproductive health care services, including coverage… Source link

The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register OAKLAND, Calif., May 2 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday it had recently fired a senior engineering manager after colleagues, whose landmark research on artificial intelligence software he had been trying to discredit, accused him of harassing behavior. The dispute, which stems… Source link

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder. Alex Wong/Getty Images An Amazon worker on leave emailed Jeff Bezos to say she’d been underpaid, The New York Times said. A subsequent investigation found that Amazon was systematically underpaying some workers on leave. A spokesperson told The Times that Amazon was still identifying underpaid workers. An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon worker who was on leave triggered an internal investigation that exposed flaws with the company’s payroll system, The New… Source link

Less than three years after thousands of Google employees walked out of their offices to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment, the search giant’s workers are again raising the issue in response to a damning report. In a letter published Friday titled “Alphabet, Stop Protecting Harassers,” LINK THIS dozens of employees said the company has a pattern of protecting those who have been accused of misconduct. They asked Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,