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WhatsApp launches screen sharing feature to take on Zoom, Google Meet

Global WhatsApp Business App users grow fourfold to over 200 million. In 2020, 15 million out of 50 million users of the business messaging app came from India

Google Search gets AI grammar check feature: What is it, how does it work

Upon typing a query on Google Search, users can now receive suggestions for corrections, making sure their content is well structured and error free

Madras HC dismisses pleas of 14 firms against Google billing policy

Startups allege tech giant had introduced new billing system to circumvent Competition Commission of India's order

Google Doodle pays tribute to Altina Schinasi known for 'cat-eye' frames

Google Doodle is celebrating Altina 'Tina' Schinasi, a popular American artist and inventor, known for her iconic 'cat-eye' eyeglass frames

Google illegally cut contract staffers who worked on AI, alleges union

The Alphabet Workers Union accused the internet giant of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing

Google lifts search, download experience on mobile with new Chrome features

Related content, highlight trending topics, and expand search suggestions are among the new features that Google added with the Chrome update

Amazon, Google wooed by India for $750 million cricket rights: Reports

The proposed starting date of the auction process for the media rights of the so-called bilateral series, played by the Indian team against other countries

Alphabet owned Google's dominance sparks South African antitrust crackdown

The watchdog determined that Google's search dominance "distorts platform competition" in favor of large market players

Google Ads introduces auto-generated advertisement tool using generative AI

Advertisers and businesses will now be able to auto-generate advertisements on Google Ads platform, said Dan Taylor, vice president of global ads at Google. Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), Google Ads will be able to create campaign workflows based on business prompts given by marketers. "It learns from the advertisers landing pages, queries that are performing well and headlines that they've already approved to create entirely new creatives," he said during his recent India visit. According to a McKinsey study, marketing and sales have the biggest reported revenue effects of AI. Taylor spoke about Gen AI tools introduced during Google I/O held on May 10 this year for marketers and advertisers like Performance Max, and how brands like Myntra, Samsung, HDFC, and Tata AIG saw up to 18 per cent higher conversions by adding AI to their marketing mix. Performance Max combines Google's AI technologies across bidding, budget optimisation

Google for Startups Accelerator invites applications, focus on AI

Google for Startups Accelerator is inviting applications for its eighth cohort with a focus on AI-first startups, the company announced in a blogpost on Thursday. Indian startups funded from Seed to Series A level can apply for the three-month programme till August 22, 2023, it said. "We are looking for Indian AI-first startups working across different sectors to solve complex problems and tackle the toughest challenges in their industry," Google said. According to the announcement, the select startups will receive mentorship and training on product, design, growth and leadership development. The seventh class of the accelerator programme is underway since June 2023, enrolling 20 Seed to Series A startups like LimeChat, Quroz and Swasthya AI, Google said. The programme ends with a "Demo Day" for startups to grow their visibility within the ecosystem, it said. Founders can continue to receive support after the programme wraps through the Google for Startups alumni network, the co

Google, OpenAI to create industry watchdog to ensure safety of AI models

The effort, also backed by AI startup Anthropic and Microsoft, aims to consolidate the expertise of member companies and create benchmarks for the industry

Google search engine emerges unfazed from Microsoft's Bing challenge

The world's fourth most valuable firm was set to add more than $100 billion to its market capitalisation, based on premarket movements

Realme Pad 2 review: Big screen companion good for routine everyday chores

Powered by MediaTek Helio G99 system-on-chip, the Realme Pad 2 is positioned by the company as a big screen tablet good for entertainment and productivity-related workloads. Is it? Let us find out

Endless troubles: What is happening at quick commerce platform Dunzo?

Quick-commerce player Dunzo is struggling not only with financial losses but also with keeping its operations afloat

WormGPT: A malicious cousin of ChatGPT with no ethical boundaries

A new AI tool has been developed called WormGPT, which aims to launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The WormGPT could be accessed only through the dark web

Amazon, Meta among firms to unveil AI safeguards after Biden's warning

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology have agreed to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by President Joe Biden's administration. The White House said Friday that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven U.S. companies meant to ensure their AI products are safe before they release them. Some of the commitments call for third-party oversight of the workings of commercial AI systems, though they don't detail who will audit the technology or hold the companies accountable. A surge of commercial investment in generative AI tools that can write convincingly human-like text and churn out new images and other media has brought public fascination as well as concern about their ability to trick people and spread disinformation, among other dangers. The four tech giants, along with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and startups Anthropic and Inflection, have committed to security testing carried out in part by ...

Google developing an AI tool for news publishing industry: Report

The tech giant said in a statement that it is looking to partner with news outlets regarding the use of AI tool in newsrooms

Google tests AI to write news articles, in talks with news organisations

The product named Genesis has been demonstrated for executives at New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal

Google employee salaries leaked, software engineers paid Rs 5.90 crore

This information came from an internal spreadsheet shared among Google employees that contained data from more than 12,000 US workers in a range of positions

Apple testing its AI chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard

Apple is developing its AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The tech giant has built its own framework, dubbed "Ajax" to develop large language models (LLMs), referred to as AppleGPT