[[{“value”:” It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market. On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam Selipsky was stepping down to spend more time with […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
[[{“value”:” Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistic group of racially diverse soldiers while rendering “Zulu warriors” as stereotypically Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized, and Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn
[[{“value”:” A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They warn […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
The top AI announcements from Google I/O
[[{“value”:” Google’s going all in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot! But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. Others were rehashed. So to help […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Uber has a new way to solve the concert traffic problem
[[{“value”:” Uber is taking a shuttle product it developed for commuters in India and Egypt and converting it for an American audience. The ride-hail and delivery giant announced Wednesday at its annual Go-Get event in New York City that it will launch a shuttle service in certain U.S. cities this summer. The service will eventually cater […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Wear OS 5 hits developer preview, offering better battery life
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Google adds live threat detection and screen-sharing protection to Android
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Google TV to launch AI-generated movie descriptions
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Android’s new Theft Detection Lock helps deter smartphone snatch and grabs
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Google Maps is getting geospatial AR content later this year
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