Tag: Google

Sen. Durbin raises alarm about sexually explicit deepfakes on Google

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent a letter Monday asking Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, for details about how the platform plans to combat nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes. Google search results for the word “deepfakes” and names of female celebrities often return links to such material when safety features […]

Google CEO Testifies at Ozy Trial, Denies $600 Million Offer

(Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai took the witness stand at the fraud trial of Ozy Media Inc. co-founder Carlos Watson, testifying that the search giant never intended to buy the startup for any amount of money. Most Read from Bloomberg Watson is accused of defrauding investors of tens of millions of […]

Google chief gives evidence at fraud trial of Ozy Media founder

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai gave evidence on Friday at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding startup Ozy Media, countering founder Carlos Watson’s alleged claims that the search giant once sought to buy Ozy. Google did consider hiring Watson for a high-level news executive job in 2021 and putting 25 million dollars (£19.7 million) into […]

Apple’s Huge AI Announcement Is a Chatbot and an Image Generator, Which Is the Exact Same Boring Offering as Microsoft, Google and Meta

Generating a Blank Tech giant Apple has finally shown off its particular take on artificial intelligence tech — and we can’t shake the feeling that we’ve seen this all before. During today’s kickoff of the company’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple unveiled what it’s calling “Apple Intelligence,” a set of machine learning features to be integrated […]