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Sundar Pichai also talked about the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the transformative qualities of the same. Sundar Pichai during his talks advocated against ‘rewarding every outcome’ of his employees.

AI platform, Gemini, was deemed 'unreliable' and returned unsubstantiated results in response to a query regarding the Prime Minister. According to statements attributed to Minister of State for IT & Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Indian government had issued a notice to Google seeking clarification regarding the discrepancies in Gemini's responses. In a significant move, Google acknowledged the platform's unreliability, extending an apology to Prime Minister Modi and the Indian government.

'We got it wrong': Google CEO Sundar Pichai says 'Gemini AI responses show bias' Castel also said Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, could try in a separate case to prove that Google fraudulently concealed anticompetitive effects of some technology. Gannett alleged that it sold some of its ad space directly to advertisers, but Google still made the inventory available for auction on its ad exchange in order to accrue transaction fees for its own benefit.

Sundar Pichai introduces Gemma: Google's State-of-the-Art open models for developers Addressing the recent controversy surrounding Gemini, Pichai wrote a memo to Google employees in which he called some of Gemini's responses "unacceptable" and admitted that the tech giant "got it wrong". Pichai wrote in the letter, quoted by The Verge, “I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong." Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues.

Investing.com -- U.S. futures edged slightly into the green on Thursday, but remained muted as hopes for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts early this year continued to recede. Elsewhere, Google boss Sundar Pichai reportedly warns employees of more impending job cuts at the tech behemoth, while chipmaker TSMC says demand for artificial intelligence will fuel a year of «healthy growth.»

Investing.com — U.S. stock futures traded marginally higher Thursday, but gains are set to be restrained by concerns that economic resilience will result in the Federal Reserve delaying interest rate cuts. 

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said she met with the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet and Qualcomm to discuss regulation and competition policy compliance, in posts on social media platform X on Friday. Last week, Vestager's communications adviser said she would speak to chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States, focusing on European digital regulation including the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and competition policy.

Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT developer OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc's merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was «checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation».

Google Bard website that mentions Bard Advanced. The initial statement suggests, "Try Bard Advanced for 3 months, on us." A subsequent sentence elaborates, "Get more capable large language models with advanced math and reasoning skills with Bard Advanced for 3 months on us." Reportedly, the code snippets indicate that Bard Advanced will be presented through a three-month trial, implying that users may need to subscribe for continued access post the complimentary trial. The precise release date for the enhanced version of Bard remains uncertain, as the company initially declared an "early 2024" launch when announcing the service in December.

Hindi heartland were constructing houses, cleaning roads and toilets in Tamil Nadu was condemned by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, whose party, the RJD, is a constituent of the INDIA bloc like the DMK. The RJD leader condemning Maran's comment assumes significance in the wake of the BJP questioning the 'silence' of parties that constitute the opposition alliance.The DMK has slammed the BJP for spreading 'falsehood,' asserting that Maran only stressed on learning the English language.

Google on Wednesday introduced Gemini which it deemed the «most capable and general model» it has ever built. we’ve ever built. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts Google has undertaken as a company. «We’re taking the next step on our journey (as an AI first company) with Gemini, our most capable and general model yet, with state-of-the art performance across many leading benchmarks,» Pichai said in a foreword to the blog post about the announcement. «Our first version, Gemini 1.0, is optimized for different sizes: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. These are the first models of the Gemini era and the first realization of the vision we had when we formed Google DeepMind earlier this year.»

Also Read: Diwali gifts: Taxable or tax-free? Decoding the rules for a hassle-free festival “Happy Diwali," Tim Cook wrote on X, while sharing the a snap of Diwali celebration clicked by Chandan Khanna. In the picture, people were releasing sky lanterns to celebrate the festival of light. Also Read: ‘…maybe a week’: Edelweiss MF's Radhika Gupta compares Diwali break in India with Christmas-New Year holidays in West The photo was clicked by Chandan Khanna, who is a photojournalist working with news agency AFP.

Google’s threat to withdraw from Australia over laws that would force it to pay for new content was not an idle one – it even designed what users would see instead, internal emails filed in a major court case in the United States reveal.

Google on Monday will try to protect a lucrative piece of its internet empire at the same time it's still entangled in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. The latest threat will unfold in a San Francisco federal court, where a 10-person jury will decide whether Google's digital payment processing system in the Play Store that distributes apps for phones running on its Android software has been illegally driving up prices for consumers and developers.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells it, his company has always been on the side of consumers. It has paid billions to other industry giants, including Apple and Samsung, he said, to make sure Google's internet search engine worked as well as it should on those companies' devices. Testifying on Monday in Google's landmark antitrust trial, Pichai directly contradicted the Justice Department's claims that his company's huge payments to companies such as Apple to be the default internet search option on their popular devices represent its unchecked monopoly power. Pichai said he had been worried that Apple, in particular, would make it more difficult to use Google's search on its devices and he believed Google had to pay to make sure that wouldn't happen.

Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan on Thursday detailed challenges the search and advertising giant faces from smaller rivals, describing efforts to avoid becoming «the next road kill.» Raghavan testified at the ongoing antitrust trial in the suit brought by the US Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general, alleging Alphabet's Google unlawfully abused its dominance in the search-engine market to maintain monopoly power.

Investing.com -- Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares fell more than 5% in after-hours trading after weaker than expected gains in revenue from its cloud computing operation.

Google is in advanced talks with Indian electronics manufacturer Dixon Technologies as well as with Bharat FIH, an arm of Taiwan’s Foxconn, to set up production of its flagship smartphone Pixel 8 in India, people aware of the development told ET. On Thursday, Alphabet Inc’s chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that his company’s first made-in-India Pixel devices will be rolled out in early 2024, providing a significant boost to the country’s ambitions to emerge as a global electronics manufacturing hub.

2024 Lok Sabha polls. The letters came after the Washington Post newspaper flagged alleged bias of Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube towards the ruling BJP and the Narendra Modi dispensation.

Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is set to be called by Epic Games Inc. to testify in an antitrust trial over Google Play policies that could threaten billions of dollars in revenue generated by the app marketplace. Pichai and Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney have been listed as witnesses in a trial scheduled to start Nov. 6 in San Francisco federal court over whether Google Play policies are unlawful and thwart competition, according to court filings. The high-stakes fight kicked off after Epic sued Alphabet’s Google in 2020 claiming that its app store’s distribution, payment and fee policies are unlawful.

Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. «This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google's search engine will ever face meaningful competition,» said Kenneth Dintzer, the Justice Department's lead litigator.