Drivers navigating traffic on El Camino Real could soon have new cars to contend with, but no one to direct their road rage at: Driverless cars are coming to the Peninsula. Autonomous vehicle company Waymo is set to begin testing its robotaxis along the Peninsula in the next few weeks, the first step in the … Read more
Paid autonomous vehicle service is coming to Los Angeles, thanks to a decision by California regulators today to allow Alphabet subsidiary Waymo to operate in the city. Under the new ruling, Waymo is also permitted to launch service in a large section of the San Francisco Peninsula. The decision by the California Public Utilities Commission … Read more
By MATT O’BRIEN and ALI SWENSON | Associated Press Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Tech executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce … Read more
Alphabetâs Gemini AI model has been public for only two months, but the company is already releasing an upgrade. Gemini Pro 1.5, launching with limited availability today, is more powerful than its predecessor and can handle huge amounts of text, video, or audio input at a time. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, which developed … Read more
As economic trends drive stock markets in the US and China onto wildly divergent paths, analysts said China needs to address systemic issues and loosen capital controls to change course and become a financial superpower, a goal its leaders have put forth on multiple occasions. US stocks are hitting record highs, with tech giants such … Read more
Pennies were pinched in Mountain View last year. For much of its existence as a public company, Google had made a headline-grabbing acquisition at least once a year as it used the profits from its surging ads business to bet on new frontiers. Billions of dollars went to scooping up Motorola, Nest, HTC, and Fitbit … Read more
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed his workers the company priorities for 2024 this month, developing AI responsibly was top of the list. Some employees now wonder if Google can live up to that goal. The small team that has served as its primary internal AI ethics watchdog has lost its leader and is being … Read more
Google execs are actively considering an international expansion of pay-TV service YouTube TV, Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “It is something we are closely looking at,” Schindler said. “There’s nothing specific I have to add at this moment in time on this one.” Schindler and CEO Sundar Pichai … Read more
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By Michael Liedtke | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours … Read more
