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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ex-Googler: Google’s AI projects are driven by ‘stone cold panic’  Search Engine Land Google’s AI overview suggests blinker fluid for cars  Quartz Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Lendlease, Google end development deals for San Francisco Bay Area projects  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]2023 NBA Draft: Yahoo! Sports projects Arizona Wildcats’ Azuolas Tubelis as second-round pick  Arizona Desert Swarm Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]GM Picks Google Over Apple for Connected EV Projects  PYMNTS.com Source link

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Google’s research arm on Wednesday showed off a whiz-bang assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) projects it’s incubating, aimed at everything from mitigating climate change to helping novelists craft prose. Why it matters: AI has breathtaking potential to improve and enrich our lives — and comes with hugely worrisome risks of misuse, intrusion and malfeasance, if not developed and deployed responsibly. Driving the news: The dozen-or-so AI projects that… 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

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt shares details about the “brutal” review process employees had to go through when pitching ideas for new products. During a Q&A session at the Collision conference in Toronto, Schmidt was asked about his approach to forecasting futures and whether he uses a bottom-up or top-down approach. Collision is a conference geared toward startups and investors, so the questions asked were all within that realm. One question prompted Schmidt to drop some interesting… Source link

The OpenInfra Foundation, the open-source foundation that used to be the OpenStack Foundation until it expanded its scope beyond its flagship project a few years ago, today announced an interesting new way for companies to fund open-source projects inside the foundation. Traditionally, corporate members of open-source foundations support the organization by paying a membership fee, which, for the most part, the foundations then distribute as they see fit. Now, with its new ‘Directed Funding’… Source link

Google will help its Cloud users save energy and reduce emissions by providing new tools to let them manage energy use from their idle projects. Driving the news: Google on Wednesday introduced the Carbon Sense suite. It’s a collection of features that aims to help companies quantify and report their emissions, as well as reduce them. Zoom in: The company says its “Active Assist” feature will allow customers to spot their energy-intensive idle projects and help manage them better to reduce… Source link

Nigeria is looking to Europe for funding to complete infrastructure projects such as railways, with a senior official in the West African nation saying Chinese loans are drying up. Analysts say Nigeria’s situation reflects a broader Chinese move away from funding these expensive projects in Africa, where China has provided hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to develop infrastructure as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Last weekend, Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi told Nigerian… Source link