Graphcore was the UK’s artificial intelligence champion
Google Executive Vice President of Hardware, Software, and Services Rick Osterloh revealed the first Pixel was launched in 2016 and was called ‘Pixel’. “At the first launch, I see a few individuals who were at the first launch seven years ago and they explained thatPixel is designed to bring together hardware and software with artificial intelligence at the centre,” he said.
The best feature of the phone is guaranteed to be updated
Google has announced that it’ll release its new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones with over seven years of Android and security updates. This comes days after Apple announced that its new iPhone models will have security updates for at least five years. Google has claimed that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will also be free from hardware-related issues for seven years.
ThePixel 8 is a little bit smarter than the previous one
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones with a starting price of $699 and $999 respectively. The Pixel 8 will be the first phone to get Google’s ‘Android U’ update, while the Pixel 8 Pro will get Google’s ‘Android 20’ update. Both the Pixel 8 models will get at least seven years of Android updates, Google said.
It will have seven years of Android updates for the Pixel 8 series
Google on Tuesday unveiled Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones which will get seven years of OS, security, and feature drops updates. Users will receive the latest updates every few months and new features with Feature Drops every few months, Google said. The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro support face unlocking with the same amount of security as fingerprint unlocking.
Bing is worse than GOOGLE, and Apple could fix it, according to Nadella
Google CEO Satya Nadella, in a recent interview, said that search engines “are the organising layer of the internet” and added that they’re looking at artificial intelligence (AI) to “improve it”. He added that AI has the potential to shake up the market a bit but also believes it could further entrench Google’s dominance.
The synthetic social network is coming soon
Google’s AI assistant Bard will be available for users on the Pixel 7 Pro, the tech giant announced on Monday. Bard is an all-purpose AI assistant that can help users with tasks like managing reminders, summarizing documents, writing meal plans and responding to texts. It was first introduced to Google Assistant in June 2018 but was discontinued in December 2018.
There wasn’t a valid alternative, said Apple in court
The US Justice Department (DoJ) in its case against Google and DuckDuckGo accused them of using their dominant positions in search engine market to favour one platform over another. Google said that DuckDuckGo made a “quixotic” but fruitless effort to have its privacy-focused search engine implemented in browsers’ incognito mode and was stymied by the Google deals.
The new software from the search engine company will be able to attend meetings for you
Google Meet, a video-conferencing service by Google, announced its new ‘Duet’ feature which lets users attend a meeting on their behalf. “Duet” has been added to the Meet app and will be available in some places later today. Users can access it by clicking the Duet icon in the top-right corner of the app.
Both YouTube and Google are trying to have it both ways
Universal Music Group (UMG) is in talks with Google to license voice and music for training AI models. UMG said it would invest in building its rights management system, Content ID, updating its policies on uploading manipulated content, and deploy generative AI tools to help detect videos that violate its rules. YouTube said it would expand moderation policies to cover the challenges of AI.
Humans and machines could play a part in keeping you safe
More than 2,000 people, including a cybersecurity student from Dakota State University, participated in ‘Generative Red Team Challenge: Detecting Threats, Deceptions, Biases and Misinformation with Artificial Intelligence’ at the Defcon security conference. Participants were asked to expose harms, flaws and biases embedded within chatbots and text generation models from Google, Meta, OpenAI and AI startups including Anthropic and Cohere.