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Over 200 Google AI raters laid off: Did they train their own replacement?

More than 200 contract "raters" working on Google's AI projects were laid off without warning, sparking concerns over job security, pay, and their role in training replacement systems

Nano Banana AI: How many images can you generate daily with Google Gemini?

Google has revised its Gemini model image creation limits policy, noting that "basic access" is available to free and "highest access" for Pro and Ultra users who use Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

Gemini's Nano Banana: How Google's AI creates lifelike photo edits

Google's Nano Banana, powered by Imagen 4 in the Gemini app, uses LLMs, diffusion models, and watermarking to produce more realistic and consistent AI images

Google dodges Chrome sale in antitrust case, must share search data

Tuesday's ruling represents a blow to the government, falling far short of the most severe remedies sought by antitrust enforcers after the court found Google illegally monopolised the search market

The Google antitrust ruling explained – Win or warning?

A recent major antitrust ruling just shook the tech world. On September 2, Google just dodged the worst possible penalties and survived a major legal battle, but not without scars.

Best of BS Opinion: Ethanol blend welcome, but water security a key concern

Today's wrap of the Opinion Page considers the E20 mandate and its potential impacts, what a US court's ruling on Google means, India's spice trade, and the regulatory aspects of options trading

US court's order on Google search data sharing can reduce entry barriers

However, the company may continue to have non-exclusive arrangements to preload or distribute applications. But it could pay Apple, Samsung, etc to preload its Chrome browser and search engine

Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews

News organizations have for months said the new features, including Google's "AI Overviews," siphon traffic away from their sites, eroding advertising and subscription revenue

'Learning how to learn' will be vital skill in AI era: Google scientist

A top Google scientist and 2024 Nobel laureate said Friday that the most important skill for the next generation will be "learning how to learn" to keep pace with change as Artificial Intelligence transforms education and the workplace. Speaking at an ancient Roman theatre at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's DeepMind, said rapid technological change demands a new approach to learning and skill development. "It's very hard to predict the future, like 10 years from now, in normal cases. It's even harder today, given how fast AI is changing, even week by week," Hassabis told the audience. "The only thing you can say for certain is that huge change is coming." The neuroscientist and former chess prodigy said artificial general intelligence a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can could arrive within a decade. This, he said, will bring dramatic advances and a possible ...

Google's Gemini AI can now analyse your audio files: All you need to know

Google's Gemini app now lets Android, iOS, and web users upload audio files for AI to do a comprehensive analysis, opening new use cases like transcribing interviews, lectures, and voice memos

Google's Gemini AI reportedly unsafe for teens despite guardrails

Common Sense Media flags Gemini's kid-focused versions as "High Risk," warning that added filters aren't enough to protect children from unsafe or inappropriate content

Google pushes its AI chips into rival data centres, challenging Nvidia

Google is deploying TPUs in rival data centres, challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance and aiming to break developers' reliance

Google hit with $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine over adtech practices

The Commission said Google favoured its own online display technology services to the detriment of rivals and online publishers and that it abused its market power since 2014 until today

Google ordered to pay $425.7 mn in damages for improper smartphone snooping

A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people's smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1, 2016, through Sept 23, 2024. That means the total damages awarded in the five-year-old case works out to about $4 per device. Google had denied that it was improperly tracking the online activity of people who thought they had shielded themselves with privacy controls. The company maintained its stance even though the eight-person jury concluded Google had been spying in violation of California privacy laws. This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it, Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalisation, we honour

Pixel 10 series' Material 3 Expressive expands to older-generation models

Android 16 QPR1 for Pixel smartphones introduces a refreshed Material 3 design, advanced LE Audio streaming, expanded Gboard AI features, Quick Share changes, Pixel Watch navigation support, and more

Australia warns Meta, TikTok to prepare as under-16 ban approaches

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Thursday she had written to the technology companies saying she expected them to get ready to deactivate accounts held by Australians who are under 16

Google Pixel's Screenshots app may soon get Read Aloud option: How it works

Google is adding a new Read Aloud feature to the Pixel Screenshots app, letting users listen to saved articles or captured content. This update might soon reach the Pixel 9 series, too

How OpenAI 'accidentally' saved Google from losing YouTube, Chrome

Generative AI's sudden ascent reshaped how courts view online search, giving Google an unlikely shield against antitrust efforts to split off YouTube and Chrome

Puch AI is call, message away to answer your queries: How's it different?

Puch AI works on calls, letting users dial in and talk to an AI voice in 22 languages, with celebrity voices greeting them before answering queries

US judge orders Google to revamp search engine in monopoly case

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the US government's request to break up the company. The 226-page decision made by US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, will likely ripple across the technological landscape at a time when the industry is being reshaped by artificial intelligence breakthroughs including conversational answer engines as companies like ChatGPT and Perplexity try to upend Google's long-held position as the internet's main gateway. Mehta is trying to rein in Google by placing new restraints on some of the tactics the company deployed to drive traffic to its search engine and other services. But the judge stopped short of banning the multi-billion dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock in its search engine as the default on smartphones, personal computers and other devices. Those deals, involving payments of .