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Sundar Pichai also said AI regulation would be needed, but should strike a balance to protect innovation.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that AI is "like a tsunami" that will have a significant impact on the global workforce and could boost productivity if managed well.

Investors are watching Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) as Google I/O 2024 Conference kicks off in Mountain View, California. Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) revealed a host of new AI products during the event, including AI overviews. Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) bulls have long believed it was just a matter of time the company […]

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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 Google's AI research division DeepMind, said that a fix should arrive "in very short order" -- with

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 that, once client-side scanning is baked into mobile infrastructure, it could usher in an era of centralized censorship. Google's demo of the call scam-detection fea

On today's episode of Catalysts, co-hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills explore market reactions to economic data, company announcements, and the latest developments in the AI sector. Market dynamics take center stage as the show dissects the ripple effects of Wednesday's Consumer Price Index (CPI) print and the resurgence of the meme stock frenzy. Yahoo Finance's Jared Blikre breaks down the market response to the meme trade resurgence. Rabobank Senior Cross-Asset Macro Strategist Christian Lawrence joins the discussion to shed light on the implications of the CPI print for market outlooks. Additionally, Loomis Sayles Head of Full Discretion Team Matt Eagan and Nuveen Head of Municipals Dan Close offer their insights on market outlooks after the CPI release. The show also spotlights a several trending tickers, including Netflix (NFLX), which will now stream two holiday NFL games, Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), which unveiled new AI features at its Google I/O conference, and SunPower Corporation (SPWR), the recipient of a downgrade from Wolfe Research. Furthermore, BCG Global Chair Rich Lesser joins the discussion to explore the growing investments in generative AI from tech companies. This post was written by Angel Smith

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 sort the wheat from the chaff, we rounded up the top new AI products and features unveiled at Google I/O 2024. Generative AI in Search Google plans to use generative AI to organize entire G

Google took back the AI crown during its I/O developer conference, but its reign could be short-lived.

Linear networks have been a pain point for legacy media giants as a dismal ad environment drags on revenue, coupled with the mass exodus of pay TV consumers.

Google is preparing to launch a new system to help address the problem of malware on Android. Its new live threat detection service leverages Google Play Protect's on-device AI to analyze apps for malicious behavior. The service, announced following the Google I/O developer event on Tuesday, examines various signals related to an app's use of sensitive permissions and interactions with other apps and services, the company explains. If it finds suspicious behavior, Google Play Protect will be abl

Imagine you’re minding your own business, sitting on a park bench, looking at your phone. Boom. Someone grabs your device and runs off with it. Android and iOS already have some safeguards in place, but what about those precious few seconds when the handset is still unlocked -- can you get your hands on a way to remotely wipe it? Thieves can access a lot of information in that short time. Every moment counts. Google on Wednesday and at its Google I/O 2024 developer conference announced an upcomi

The tech giant will use AI to detect when a user’s phone has been snatched from their hands.

As anticipated, numerous AI-related announcements were made at this year's Google I/O 2024 conference, including the unveiling of a new feature for Google TV. Gemini, the company's family of generative AI models, will enhance the smart TV operating system so it can generate descriptions for movies and TV shows. When a description is missing on the home screen, the AI will fill it in automatically to ensure that viewers never have to wonder what a title is about, Google explains. It'll also trans

These product releases just reaffirmed how massively this technology is going to change our lives

“You could almost argue that the smartphone is becoming a little bit closer to a washing machine than the cutting-edge, rapidly changing device category that it used to be,” says Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, a technology research firm. Samsung Electronics and Alphabet Google, which have spent years partnering on mobile phones—and the Android software that powers them—see a silver bullet in the form of artificial intelligence. “This new era of AI is a profound opportunity to make smartphones truly smart,” Sameer Samat, Google’s vice president of product management for Android, said during the Google I/O developers conference on Tuesday.

Not only are Google's AI models arguably surging ahead of OpenAI on capabilities, OpenAI can't match Google's distribution