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Google has responded to journalist Anthropic’s allegation that its artificial intelligence-powered summaries used one of his articles without his permission. “We see that links included in the AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query,” Google said. Anthropic’s article was often a featured link in the top of search results.
Before its pizza glue, the technology was cut back in its search
Microsoft has reportedly been asked to provide information about the safety of its AI-generated answers to search queries called AI Overviews. The feature was criticised after it produced incorrect answers to several queries. Google had recently made adjustments to its new search feature, AI Overviews, after screenshots of bizarre and misleading answers to queries went viral.
The search feature has been screwed up
After Google’s AI-based search engine AI Overviews advised people to eat rocks, put glue on pizza and jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, it admitted it needed to make adjustments. “We’ll continue to monitor users’ feedback and adjust the feature as necessary,” Google said in a post. Google added it’ll continue to rely on Reddit’s user-generated content for AI-based searches.
The leaked Search documents are real, according to the search engine
Google is not using Chrome data to rank websites and E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness) isn’t a ranking factor, leaked documents revealed. They also showed that links appearing below vogue.com URL may be created in part by using chrome data. The documents said Google doesn’t use Chrome data to rank pages, but Chrome is specifically mentioned in sections about how websites appear in Search.
There are strange answers in the search
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that the Search Generative Experience has served over a billion queries in last 12 months. He stated that the algorithm was able to answer 80% of these queries without human input. He added that Google brought the cost of delivering AI answers down by 80% over that same time, “driven by hardware, engineering and technical breakthroughs”.
A judge hints at plans for a store for illegal games
A US judge has said that Google will have to do things in a “different way” to comply with a jury’s antitrust verdict against it. The judge said Google would have to change its business as a penalty. In December, the jury had ruled that Google was unfairly giving advantage to itsPlay app store to Epic Games and other app developers.
The US is working with key allies to create a global artificial intelligence safety network
South Korea and the UK on Tuesday opened a two-day AI Safety Summit which is being hosted by the two countries. This is the first of its kind since the first AI Safety Summit in the UK was held in November. It will also feature talks between world leaders and industry leaders, including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
Eve is close to having her mobile application, thanks to the new Homeapis from Google
Google has said the Home APIs could be used to connect smart home devices to fitness or delivery apps. Google said Android users would be able to control smart home products natively, including smart plugs, smart lights, and smart shades. “You can build a complex app to manage any aspect of a smart home…like turning on the lights automatically before the delivery driver arrives,” it added.
It is the end of search on the internet
Google on Wednesday unveiled new AI-powered features for Google Search including video search and ‘Ask Photos’. Google has also made a customized version of its Gemini AI model for these new Search features, though it refused to share information about the size of this model, its speeds, or the guardrails it has put in place around the technology.
Everything was announced at the I/O
Google’s AI-powered music creation tool, ‘Mixer’, lets users create their own music using prompts like “viola” and “guitar”, without needing to input any lyrics. The tool generates a track based on text prompts. Users can be asked to type simple phrases like “viola” or “guitar” in the prompts, and the mixer generates a track based on it.