Publishers were not given more choice to opt out of the search
Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results, Bloomberg reported quoting an internal document. “It’sevolving into a space for monetisation,” the document said. Publishers in the US have threatened to quit Google’s search engine if it doesn’t give them control over its use of their website data.
Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are partners of Android XR
Google on Wednesday announced that its smart glasses will be compatible with eyewear brands Meta and Gentle Monster. It added that users will be able to control the glasses through a smartphone or tablet app. Google also announced that it is launching a ‘Google Beam’ tool that will create a 3D image of the person on a video call.
Project Aura smart glasses forANDROID XR is teased by Xreal
Google on Tuesday unveiled ‘Android XR’, a smart glasses device with an AI assistant that can help interpret the world around users. The augmented reality device will have a camera, microphone, and speakers so that its AI assistant can help people interpret the world around them. Google first unveiled ‘Android Astra’, a smart glasses device in 2017, at Google I/O.
The DOJ’s antitrust plan could end up being bad for the search engine
Google CEO David Pichai said that Google views its AI chatbot, Gemini, as a leading model in the industry. However, he also said that still a “big gap” remains between them and what he views as the market leader, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Onyema asked Pichai whether another company could manage Chrome’s security and privacy as well as Google.
In a court, CEO Pichai defends his company
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) in its appeal against Google’s antitrust victory said on Tuesday that the company has blocked competitors from getting into business with mobile carriers, manufacturers and retailers. It asked the US District Court to order Google to share its search results with other rivals. The government also wants Google to spin off its Chrome browser.
The Justice Department wants to know how to change a search engine monopoly
The US Department of Justice on Monday opened its antitrust trial against Google over its search engine business. Google’s lawyers argued that the DOJ’s list of remedies for the case is a “wishlist for competitors” and that it will enable competitors to get resources that took Google decades to develop. Google had been found to be a monopoly in the case.
Big Tech is back in court
A US court has ruled that Google’s purchase of DoubleClick does not hurt competition and its “ad tech” tools are “simple, affordable and effective”. However, the court also warned Google over its failure to preserve internal communications citing an internal messaging app which “deleted records of chats between employees”. Google had said it disagreed with the court’s decision.
The ad tech monopoly case came to an abrupt end
The UK High Court has ruled that Google’s online advertising practices are “likely anti-competitive”, allowing the US to continue its case. The case was filed in 2023 and concerns an intricate web of programs that sell ad space around the web, like on a news site or a recipes page. In its ruling, the court said Google’s acquisition of digital advertising platform DoubleClick didn’t harm competition.
DeepMind has an artificial intelligence robot slam-dunking a basketball
Google-backed startup Collected Artificial Intelligence has developed a new model called ‘Gemini Robotics’ which can respond to spoken commands and do things likeFolding paper, hand over veggies, and putting a pair of glasses in a case. The robots rely on the model to connect items that are visible with possible actions in order to do what they’re told.
Trump’s DOJ doesn’t seem to mind if Google is broken up
The US Department of Justice has filed a revised proposal with a judge, asking him to force Google to sell its web browser Google Chrome and potentially Android as punishment for monopoly. Last year, Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of monopoly and fined it $1 billion. The DOJ had accused Google of anticompetitive practices to protect its search dominance.