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Google Chrome has updated the existing “Enhanced protection” feature with AI to offer “real-time” protection against dangerous websites, downloads and extensions. […]

YouTube TV reaches new deal to keep Paramount content

February 16, 2025

After warnings that Paramount content was about to disappear from Google’s pay TV service YouTube TV, the companies announced late Saturday that the’d reached a deal that averting any disruption to channel availability. Those announcements didn’t include many specifics about the agreement, but a statement from a Paramount spokesperson said it includes “an expanded streaming…

Google Gemini now brings receipts to your AI chats

February 13, 2025

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you’ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another conversation thread. This means you won’t have to repeat information you’ve already shared with…

Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years

February 13, 2025

Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Lines Between Nation-State and Cybercrime Groups Disappearing: Google

February 12, 2025

Threat researchers with Google are saying that the lines between nation-state actors and cybercrime groups are blurring, noting that gangs backed by China, Russia, and others are using financially motivated hackers and their tools while attacks by cybercriminals should be seen as national security threats. The post Lines Between Nation-State and Cybercrime Groups Disappearing: Google…

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws

February 12, 2025

February’s report on Microsoft patches includes 56 vulnerabilities, two of which are zero-day flaws that have been exploited.

Google expands Family Link parental controls with screen time tools, approved contacts, and more

February 12, 2025

Google on Wednesday announced a series of updates for its parental control software Google Family Link and a plan to test new machine-learning techniques to estimate users’ ages so it could apply more age-appropriate experiences to kids’ devices. The company earlier said that it would soon use machine learning to determine the age of YouTube…

SGNL snags $30M for a new take on ID security based on zero-standing privileges

February 12, 2025

Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: in the world of cloud services where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials. A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at…

Google fixes flaw that could unmask YouTube users’ email addresses

February 12, 2025

Google has fixed two vulnerabilities that, when chained together, could expose the email addresses of YouTube accounts, causing a massive privacy breach for those using the site anonymously. […]

U.S. adversaries increasingly turning to cybercriminals and their malware for help

February 11, 2025

Governments of the United States’ chief adversaries in cyberspace, especially Russia, have increasingly been relying on cybercriminals and their tools to advance their goals, according to a Google report published Tuesday. There’s long been overlap between government and criminal cyber operators, but governments are now enjoying the benefits of collaboration and borrowing more — both…

Google’s I/O developer conference set for May 20-21

February 11, 2025

Google Tuesday confirmed that its annual developer conference is set for May 20-21, 2025. The event will be held at the usual spot, Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater, a few minutes — depending on traffic — from Google HQ. The two-day event is a mix of both public- and developer-facing content. CEO Sundar Pichai will kick…

YouTube AI updates include auto dubbing expansion, age ID tech, and more

February 11, 2025

In his annual letter, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dubbed AI as one of the company’s four “big bets” for 2025, pointing to the company’s investments in AI tools for creators, like those that help them come up with video ideas, thumbnails, or those that help translate their content into other languages. The latter feature will…

Google leads $230M convertible note for Boston quantum computing startup QuEra

February 11, 2025

Quantum computing, long relegated to the realm of theoretical, feels like it is back on the agenda as a potentially viable alternative to the expensive race for more powerful compute. On the heels of some notable advancements in quantum chips and error correction (two of the key areas that have kept quantum computers from becoming…

Google backs Toonsutra to grow its webtoons platform in India

February 11, 2025

It’s no news that India is a huge market for entertainment businesses, but what often doesn’t get mentioned is that its people love to see content in their own languages. According to a recent survey by non-profit Internet and Mobile Association of India, more than 870 million Indians sought out videos, music and other content…

Apple and Google take down malicious mobile apps from their app stores

February 10, 2025

DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists

February 7, 2025

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition. The system, called AlphaGeometry2, is an improved version of a system, AlphaGeometry, that DeepMind released last January. In a newly published study, the DeepMind researchers behind…

Google is adding digital watermarks to images edited with Magic Editor AI

February 6, 2025

Google on Thursday announced that effective this week, it will begin adding a digital watermark to images in Photos that are edited with generative AI. The watermark applies specifically to images that are altered using the Reimagine feature found in Magic Editor on Pixel 9 devices. Announced in 2024, Reimagine utilizes generative AI to alter…

Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini

February 5, 2025

Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, available in the Gemini app. Notably, Google is releasing these AI models as the tech world remains…

Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025

February 4, 2025

Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start of that journey was AI overviews, a controversial and monumental shift in how Google delivers information to billions of Search users. But that was just the beginning. “As AI continues…

Alphabet praises DeepSeek, but it’s massively ramping up its AI spending

February 4, 2025

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

February 4, 2025

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company appears to have updated its public AI principles page, erasing a section titled “applications we will not pursue,” which was still included as recently as last week. Asked for…

The AI Fix #36: A DeepSeek special

February 4, 2025

In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America’s AI hegemony. Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot…

China may probe Intel for antitrust: report

February 4, 2025

Amid China’s retaliation to recently-announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China’s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. Per…

China hits back at Trump tariffs with Google antitrust investigation

February 4, 2025

China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. The probe by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet…

Google fixes Android kernel zero-day exploited in attacks

February 3, 2025

The January 2025 Android security updates patch 48 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day kernel vulnerability tagged as exploited in the wild. […]

Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield

February 2, 2025

Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight…

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking

February 1, 2025

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was wrong about FSD; teens losing trust in Big Tech; and more! Let’s do it. DeepSeek went viral this week after its AI models led Wall Street analysts and technologists to question whether the…

Google says hackers abuse Gemini AI to empower their attacks

February 1, 2025

Multiple state-sponsored groups are experimenting with the AI-powered Gemini assistant from Google to increase productivity and to conduct research on potential infrastructure for attacks or for reconnaissance on targets. […]

Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing

January 30, 2025

Google is testing a new “Ask for Me” feature that uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing. The feature is available on desktop and mobile for users who have opted into the company’s Search Labs experiments. The idea is to help users access information without having to…

Google blocked 2.36 million risky Android apps from Play Store in 2024

January 30, 2025

Google blocked 2.3 million Android app submissions to the Play Store in 2024 due to violations of its policies that made them potentially risky for users. […]

Google issues ‘voluntary exit’ program for Android, Chrome, and Pixel employees

January 30, 2025

Google SVP Rick Osterloh issued an internal memo to the Pixel/Android/Chrome team Thursday, announcing a “voluntary exit program.” TechCrunch has confirmed the letter’s existence with the company, after it was first reported by 9 to 5 Google. In a statement to TechCrunch, a spokesperson notes, The Platforms & Devices team is offering a voluntary exit…

Mexican president pushes back against Google’s renaming of Gulf of Mexico

January 30, 2025

Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename several American landmarks, including the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. However, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a press conference on Wednesday that Mexico will send a letter to Google questioning its choice to update the body of water’s name.…

New Syncjacking attack hijacks devices using Chrome extensions

January 30, 2025

A new attack called ‘Browser Syncjacking’ demonstrates the possibility of using a seemingly benign Chrome extension to take over a victim’s device through the browser. […]

What DeepSeek, China, and Trump mean for Apple ahead of its Q1 earnings

January 29, 2025

These days, nothing is certain about the tech market or the world at large. Even NVIDIA’s seemingly bulletproof stock took a hammering on Monday, enduring a $589 billion market cap decline after China-based DeepSeek raised questions for investors about more efficient AI models. But Apple’s stock has remained steady ahead of its first quarter earnings…

Climate change ignited LA’s wildfire risk. These startups want to extinguish it

January 29, 2025

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate adaptation startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google to kill Chrome Sync on older Chrome browser versions

January 28, 2025

Google announced that the Chrome Sync feature will be discontinued in early 2025 for Chrome versions older than four years. […]

Google Play adds a ‘Verified’ badge for trusted VPN apps

January 28, 2025

Google Play is rolling out “Verified” badges for select VPN apps to make it easier for users to find trust services. Apps with the badge prioritize user privacy and safety, Google said in a blog post on Tuesday. The badge indicates that the developers of an app have adhered to the Play safety and security…

Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form

January 27, 2025

Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly ended. The hardware startup closed 2016 by filing for insolvency, before being sold off to Fitbit. The fitness-tracking giant built much of the Ionic smartwatch with help from former Pebblers, along with the company’s pioneering software stack. The first Apple…

The EU wants to talk to US tech companies ahead of Germany’s upcoming election

January 24, 2025

The European Union will give tech and social media companies a “stress test” to see how they handle misinformation ahead of Germany’s election next month. European Commission officials have invited tech companies, including: X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to a meeting on January 31, according to multiple news outlets. During this meeting,…

Google commits to combatting fake reviews in the UK after 5-year probe

January 24, 2025

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has reached an agreement with Google to counter the scourge of fake online reviews. The internet giant has committed to several remedies. Bogus endorsements have blighted the web since the creation of user reviews, which is why regulators around the world have been upping the ante on tech companies to put…

Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns

January 23, 2025

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a longstanding defeat that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surround its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall…

Trump’s not happy with how EU regulators have treated US tech giants

January 23, 2025

President Donald Trump isn’t happy with how European Union regulators have treated U.S.-based tech companies including: Google, Meta, and Apple. On stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump put EU regulators on blast. He said that the EU’s cases against these U.S. tech companies are “a form of taxation,” according to Bloomberg reporting.…

Google launches customizable Web Store for Enterprise extensions

January 23, 2025

Google has officially launched its Chrome Web Store for Enterprises, allowing organizations to create a curated list of extensions that can be installed in employees’ web browsers. […]

Android 16’s first beta version brings iOS-style live notifications

January 23, 2025

After releasing two developer beta versions last year, Google introduced the first public beta for Android 16 on Thursday. New features include live updates on the lock screen (like Live Activities on iOS), Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec for high-quality video recording, and a framework for developers to make their apps adaptable for different screen…

New Android Identity Check locks settings outside trusted locations

January 23, 2025

Google has announced a new Android “Identity Check” security feature that lock sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside a trusted location. […]

UK probes Apple and Google over ‘mobile ecosystem’ market power

January 23, 2025

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching so-called “strategic market status” (SMS) investigations into the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google. The investigations constitute part of the new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) which passed last year and came into effect in January. The Act includes provisions for digital markets regulation…

Google buys part of HTC’s XR business for $250 million

January 22, 2025

Google has agreed to acquire a part of HTC’s extended reality (XR) business for $250 million, expanding its push into virtual and augmented reality hardware following the recent launch of its Android XR platform. The deal involves transferring some of the HTC VIVE engineering staff to Google and granting non-exclusive intellectual property rights, according to…

This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage

January 22, 2025

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. OpenAI is making gains at the expense of its chief rivals. On Tuesday, the company announced the Stargate Project, a new joint venture involving Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Oracle, and others to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in…

The Samsung Galaxy S25’s side button fires up Google Gemini

January 22, 2025

A new day has dawned for the Samsung side button. At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company announced a small — but meaningful — tweak arriving on the Galaxy S25 line. As it continues to focus more efforts on mobile AI, Samsung is offering up easier access to Google Gemini, by way of the…

Google makes Circle to Search more helpful

January 22, 2025

At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced that it’s updating Circle to Search to make it easier for users to find information and get things done. The feature, which launched last year, allows people to search from anywhere on their phone by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping. Now Google is expanding…

YouTube launches speed controls and high-quality audio tests for Premium users

January 22, 2025

YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, faster playback speed option on mobile, and the ability to “jump ahead” on the web to skip to the more intriguing part of the video. The company routinely tests new features that users can activate from youtube.com/new. The company said…

Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from Google

January 22, 2025

Anthropic has reportedly raised around $1 billion from Google as the AI company looks to deliver a number of major product updates this year. First reported by the Financial Times, Google’s fresh investment brings the tech giant’s total stake in Anthropic to around $3 billion. Google poured $2 billion into Anthropic late last year. Anthropic,…

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

January 22, 2025

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent…

Government battles against tech could leave consumers less secure

January 22, 2025

Regulators around the globe are seeing the market power of consumer-facing tech companies and bringing cases against some of the industry’s biggest household names. They portray these legal fights as the conflicts of giants: the companies versus government regulators. Regulators have an essential mission to ensure companies play by the rules, preserving competition and giving…

Google hit with $12.6M fine in Indonesia for monopolistic practices in payment system

January 22, 2025

Indonesia’s antitrust agency KPPU fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, equivalent to $12.6 million, on Wednesday for antitrust violation related to its payment system services for the Google Play Store. The KPPU ordered the search giant to cease the mandatory use of Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also asked Google to let…

Fake Homebrew Google ads target Mac users with malware

January 21, 2025

Hackers are once again abusing Google ads to spread malware, using a fake Homebrew website to infect Macs and Linux devices with an infostealer that steals credentials, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallets. […]

Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins

January 19, 2025

As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are at particular risk of having their data stolen. This ranges from their private Slack messages to Social Security numbers and, potentially, bank accounts. The researcher who discovered the…

FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns

January 18, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies and generative AI developers — specifically, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic. “The FTC’s report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in,…

ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google

January 17, 2025

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

January 17, 2025

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to…

A CISA secure-by-design guru makes the case for the future of the initiative

January 16, 2025

One of the chief architects of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency campaign to get software developers to design their products with security in mind said he believes it could be one of the best tools the Trump administration has to counter China. Jack Cable, who is departing his role as senior technical adviser Thursday,…

Google strikes world’s largest biochar carbon removal deal with Indian startup Varaha

January 16, 2025

These tech companies are donating to LA wildfire relief efforts

January 15, 2025

Numerous tech companies have pledged millions in donations to help LA recover from wildfires that caused widespread devastation and forced thousands to evacuate the region. Those offering aid include YouTube/Google, Meta, Snap, Amazon, Netflix, and Sony. Here’s an overview of what each company is doing to aid relief efforts in the region: YouTube and Google:…

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

January 15, 2025

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini. Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to “further enhance the usefulness of results” in the Gemini experience. “As…

Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

January 14, 2025

Google-backed Pixxel launches India’s first private satellite constellation

January 14, 2025

Pixxel, an Indian space tech startup backed by Google, has successfully launched the first three hyperspectral satellites of its commercial constellation Firefly. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google OAuth flaw lets attackers gain access to abandoned accounts

January 14, 2025

A weakness in Google’s OAuth “Sign in with Google” feature could enable attackers that register domains of defunct startups to access sensitive data of former employee accounts linked to various software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. […]

UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation

January 14, 2025

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. It’s looking into the market dominance of Google in Search, including the new work it’s doing in AI search as well as…

Canadian man loses a cryptocurrency fortune to scammers – here’s how you can stop it happening to you

January 10, 2025

A Canadian man lost a $100,000 cryptocurrency fortune – all because he did a careless Google search. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Google folds more teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’

January 9, 2025

As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is further streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools. On Thursday, Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for Google’s AI Studio developer platform, said in a post on X that Google’s AI Studio team and the team developing the API for…

Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed

January 9, 2025

Google is testing a new “Daily Listen” feature that automatically generates a podcast based on your Discover feed. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Daily Listen is a personalized AI-powered audio experience that is designed to help you stay up to date on the topics you care about. The feature is currently rolling out on…

Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world

January 6, 2025

Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks, one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, last October, will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It’ll be a part of…

Microsoft Bing shows misleading Google-like page for ‘Google’ searches

January 6, 2025

Microsoft Bing is displaying what is being categorized as a misleading Google-esque search page when users search for Google, making it look you are on the competing search engine. […]

Google Chrome is making it easier to share specific parts of long PDFs

January 4, 2025

Google is adding the Text Fragment feature to its PDF reader to make it easier to share specific parts of long PDFs. […]

CES 2025: What to expect from the year’s first and biggest tech show

January 2, 2025

CES 2025 officially kicks off in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning, running through the end of the day on January 10. The “official” dates are specific to when the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center is open to attendees, and ultimately belie the show’s true duration. A pair of press days kick off Sunday…

India again delays rules to break PhonePe-Google Pay duopoly

December 31, 2024

India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit big technology companies’ control of the nation’s digital payments system, extending a regulatory uncertainty that has weighed on the sector for years. The National Payments Corporation of India said on Tuesday it would extend the deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any individual…

India’s mobile payments dilemma

December 29, 2024

India’s payments regulator is set to decide as early as Monday whether to curb the dominance of Walmart’s PhonePe and Google in the nation’s fast-growing mobile payments market, a move that could reshape how its billion-plus population moves money. The decision centers on UPI, or Unified Payments Interface, a network backed by more than 50…

Google CEO says AI model Gemini will the company’s ‘biggest focus’ in 2025

December 28, 2024

CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google employees that 2025 will be a “critical” year for the company. CNBC reports that it obtained audio from a December 18 strategy meeting where Pichai and other executives put on ugly holiday sweaters and laid out their priorities for the coming year. “I think 2025 will be critical,” Pichai…

GV, the VC team backed by Google, has a broad remit, but it can’t do one thing

December 25, 2024

David Krane is in an enviable position. As the CEO of GV, the venture firm that is funded entirely by Google to the tune of $1 billion a year, his team of roughly 100 gets to make a lot of bets — with just a couple of notable restrictions. During a TechCrunch StrictlyVC event in…

Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI

December 24, 2024

The AI Fix #30: ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)

December 24, 2024

In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven’t left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over…

An investigation finds that Google Maps fails users in the West Bank

December 23, 2024

A Wired investigation found that Google Maps can be near impossible to use in the West Bank, especially since the start of the war. Users told the publication that the navigation app would direct them into walls, fail to account for time-consuming checkpoints, or steer them onto restricted roads leading to Israeli settlements, which can…

Protect 3 Devices With This Maximum Security Software

December 23, 2024

Trend Micro guards desktop and mobile devices from ransomware, phishing schemes, spam, and more for one year.

OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

December 21, 2024

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable market; and why Databricks is choosing to wait to go public. Let’s get into it. P.S. We’re off for the holidays! Week in Review…

Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

December 21, 2024

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, with the DOJ then proposing a number…

Google says new scam protection feature in Chrome uses AI

December 20, 2024

Google is planning to use “AI” in Chrome to detect scams when you browse random web pages. […]

Google Chrome uses AI to analyze pages in new scam detection feature

December 20, 2024

Google is using artificial intelligence to power a new Chrome scam protection feature that analyzes brands and the intent of pages as you browse the web. […]

Ongoing phishing attack abuses Google Calendar to bypass spam filters

December 18, 2024

An ongoing phishing scam is abusing Google Calendar invites and Google Drawings pages to steal credentials while bypassing spam filters. […]

Russia bans cybersecurity company Recorded Future

December 18, 2024

Russia banned the cybersecurity company Recorded Future on Wednesday, labeling it an “undesirable” organization — much to its CEO’s delight. The company stands accused of collaborating with the Central Intelligence Agency, Ukraine and other countries. “They provide information and technical support for the propaganda campaign launched by the West against Russia,” Russia’s Office of Prosecutor…

YouTube says it will start cracking down on videos with clickbait titles in India

December 18, 2024

A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down,” to bait the user into watching the video, which has non-related content. YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — especially if videos with topics breaking news or current events…

The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case

December 17, 2024

Google joins $90M investment into Cassava to bolster Africa’s digital infrastructure

December 17, 2024

With cloud spend continuing to surge, tech companies are scrambling to meet demand for the necessary infrastructure, with the growing need for AI compute only adding fuel to the fire. By way of example, Microsoft and BlackRock have created a $30 billion fund to support new data centers and energy infrastructure for the burgeoning AI…

Google says customers can use its AI in ‘high-risk’ domains, so long as there’s human supervision

December 17, 2024

Google has changed its terms to clarify that customers can deploy its generative AI tools to make “automated decisions” in “high-risk” domains, like healthcare, so long as there’s a human in the loop. According to the company’s updated Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, published on Tuesday, customers may use Google’s generative AI to make “automated…

Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused coding assistant, gets third-party tools

December 17, 2024

Google on Tuesday announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code completion service. Code Assist launched in April as a rebrand of a similar service Google offered under its now-defunct Duet AI branding. Available through plug-ins for popular dev environments like VS Code and JetBrains, Code Assist is powered by Google’s Gemini…

Google experiments with a new image generator that remixes three images into one creation

December 16, 2024

Google Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead of text, allowing them to remix a photo by altering the subject, scene, and style. Whisk uses Google’s image-generation model, Imagen 3, to combine three images: one for the subject, another for the…

Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora

December 16, 2024

Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products across Google’s portfolio. Veo 2 can…

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