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.
The iPad Mini is $100 off
Google is currently selling the Pixel Buds A-Series at $40 off from Best buy and Amazon. The Pixel Buds A-Series are priced at $59 and come with support for Google Assistant, YouTube Music and other Google-centric features such as Google Maps. The Pixel Buds A-Series is a 6.1-inch phone that costs under $500.