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Amazon, Microsoft are boosting Saudi offices amid state pressure SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images Global technology giants including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp. are among firms working to ramp up their presence in Saudi Arabia amid pressure from the government, which has said it will stop giving contracts to companies without regional headquarters in the country. The three US firms… Source link

Google is seemingly working on developing a more advanced version of its Bard chatbot. Launched in May 2023, Google’s conversational AI bot was designed to be a competitor to ChatGPT but fell flat with many users compared to OpenAI’s model. The company shared in December that it had a new Large language… Source link

Google has lost another key person working on its augmented reality devices, Business Insider has learned. Paul Greco, a vice president of engineering at Google, departed the company this week for a new opportunity, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Google spokesperson confirmed Greco’s departure but declined to comment on other details in this story. Greco was formerly the chief technology officer of once-highflying startup Magic Leap. He joined Google in 2021 and initially… Source link

Google appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will be available through a paid subscription to Google One, as shared by developer Dylan Roussel on X (formerly Twitter). Bard Advanced seems to be powered by Gemini Ultra, the top tier of Google’s newly announced large language model (LLM), according to Roussel. That’s an upgrade over the current version of Bard, which runs the midtier Gemini Pro. One of the screenshots Roussel shared describes… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft is working to add GPT-4 Turbo to Bing/Copilot; will try to boost character limits  Neowin Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Lays Off Employees Working on Its Voice Assistant  Business Insider Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too  Ars Technica Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nest Secure and Dropcam products will stop working in April 2024  Engadget Source link

Google is testing custom lock screen shortcuts in Android 13, though it’s not guaranteed to make it to the final build. Custom lock screen shortcuts are something that a lot of other device OEMs have figured out by now, but for Google Pixel owners, it’s not a feature that’s available. That may be changing though, as with Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3, the next Pixel feature drop update, it seems that Google is finally toying with the idea of introducing custom lock… Source link

In the early 2000s and even before that, people were able to recognise popular artists or bands just by listening to their songs, but with the recent advancement in the music industry, particularly with regard to autotuning, most listeners can’t guess who sang unless they view the song description. Now, Google is reportedly working on smart Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based bot MusicLM that can dish out catchy music beats with just text description. Google AI bot makes use of 280,000 hours… Source link