YouTube Announces AI-Enabled Editing Products for Video Creators

YouTube Announces AI-Enabled Editing Products for Video Creators

YouTube will roll out a slew of artificial-intelligence-powered features for creators, the latest effort from parent company Alphabet to incorporate generative AI — technology that can create and synthesize text, images, music and other media given simple prompts — into its most important products and services. Among the new products…

Google to Pay Over $155 Million to Settle Claims About Tracking Location Data

Google to Pay Over $155 Million to Settle Claims About Tracking Location Data

Google agreed to pay $155 million (nearly Rs. 1,300 crore) to settle claims by California and private plaintiffs that the search engine company misled consumers about how it tracks their locations, and used their data without consent. Both settlements resolve claims that the Alphabet unit deceived people into believing they…

Google Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Enterprise Customers at $30 Monthly Fee

Google Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Enterprise Customers at $30 Monthly Fee

Google on Tuesday made its artificial intelligence-powered tools available to enterprise customers at a monthly price of $30 (nearly Rs. 2,500) per user, as the Alphabet-owned firm looks to cash in on the technology’s surge in popularity this year. The price is the same as rival Microsoft‘s “Copilot” AI-powered office…

News Organisations Call for Regulations on Content Use by AI Makers, Reveals Letter

News Organisations Call for Regulations on Content Use by AI Makers, Reveals Letter

A group of the world’s biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note, signed by industry bodies like the News Media Alliance — which includes nearly 2,000 publications…

Google Parent Alphabet Slashes Nearly 90 Percent Stake in Robinhood Markets

Google Parent Alphabet Slashes Nearly 90 Percent Stake in Robinhood Markets

Google-parent Alphabet said on Friday it had slashed its stake in Robinhood Markets by nearly 90 percent, days after the trading app said it had turned a profit for the first time as a public company. Robinhood has been struggling to regain its footing after emerging as the breakout financial…

OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta Commit to Watermark AI-Generated Content for Safer Tech, Assures White House

OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta Commit to Watermark AI-Generated Content for Safer Tech, Assures White House

Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said. The companies – which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com, and OpenAI partner Microsoft – pledged…

Google Rolls Out Its AI Chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil to Take on Microsoft-Backed ChatGPT

Google Rolls Out Its AI Chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil to Take on Microsoft-Backed ChatGPT

Alphabet said it is rolling out its artificial- intelligence chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil on Thursday, the product’s biggest expansion since its February launch and pitting it against Microsoft-backed rival ChatGPT. Bard and ChatGPT are human-sounding programs that use generative artificial intelligence to hold conversations with users and answer…

Spotify Planning to Test Full-Length Music Videos in App

Spotify Planning to Test Full-Length Music Videos in App

Spotify Technology is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete with Alphabet‘s YouTube and ByteDance‘s TikTok. The service has already begun talking to partners about the product, according to people familiar with the plan who asked not to be identified because…