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It’s the time of year when Google employees discover how much of a pay bump they’re getting. For many, this year comes with a bit of a shock.Google has reduced the size of the compensation packages it’s handing out to staff this year, with some employees even seeing a reduction in their overall pay, they learned this month.Compensation packages are made up of base salary, bonuses, and equity grants. Once a year, following performance reviews, employees learn how their packages should increase ov…
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Our smartphones have never been so powerful, and so boring.But there’s good news: It doesn’t have to be this way, and tech companies are taking some big swings at what the future of the phone could be.Artificial-intelligence hype and gradual improvements in connectivity are inspiring companies to not only play with how things like generative AI can make our phones more interesting but also ask questions about what these gadgets in our pockets should look and feel like — and whether they should e…
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There’s a grand bargain at the heart of the web: A small piece of code that has maintained order for decades. Robots.txt lets website owners choose whether to let Google and other tech giants scrape their online content. Most sites have let Google do this because the company distributes so much valuable traffic.Then, the AI wars began. It turns out that all this content has been stored in datasets that are the foundation for training powerful AI models, including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta,…
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Artificial intelligence is driving us into the era of edge computing — two words you should expect to hear more in the coming months and years.Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into the cloud and spent years trying to get customers to move data onto remote servers. Now they’re expanding to edge computing, which refers to moving more of the computation closer to the user (the “edge” of the network).Whether it’s your smartphone, an autonomous car, or a security device in your home, edge…
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It’s tough in the Googleplex right now.The search giant, already feeling the heat of sudden and fierce competition in AI, has been making some very public snafus.Google just hit pause on its Gemini image generator, which was creating historically inaccurate pictures. The slip-up was so bad it sent the company’s stock tumbling, and had CEO Sundar Pichai address the troops, calling the situation “completely unacceptable.“The debacle has strengthened the narrative that Google is suddenly behind in…
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Just two months after Google launched Gemini, its flashy new AI model, the company revealed that it had already built a better version. Gemini 1.5, Google said, was bigger, faster, and more capable than its predecessor. The February 15 announcement, outlined in a giddy 1,600-word blog post replete with sizzle reels, prompted buzzy coverage among AI researchers and the tech press.For a few hours, anyway.Later that day, OpenAI introduced Sora, a tool that generates videos up to 60 seconds long bas…
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Prince Harry wears one. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey track their sleep with theirs. Jennifer Anniston says Jimmy Kimmel got her hooked on hers.Smart rings are having a moment. In fact, they’ve been having a moment for a few years. But one of the headline acts of Mobile World Congress this year is Samsung’s Galaxy Ring — a smart ring that tracks heart rate, sleep, and even fertility. Analysts think it has the potential to dominate the market.Samsung is only teasing its for now — the ones at MW…
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You can’t turn a corner at Mobile World Congress 2024 without someone mentioning “artificial intelligence.” Those words have been tossed around vaguely in keynotes and roundtables, but one thing has become clear: AI is most definitely coming for our smartphones.At the tech event in Barcelona, several companies and chipmakers came to demo ways generative-AI tools could be moving into our pockets.Sure, your phone can already access ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini chatbot, but these require an internet…
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Pivotal, the flying-car company that Larry Page, a cofounder of Google, backs, announced this week it had laid off nine employees, or 10% of its staff, according to the company and a memo seen by Business Insider.In an internal note sent Thursday, Ken Karklin, the CEO of Pivotal, told staff that the company made cuts following an internal workforce review and that it needed to “make room for different skill sets and competencies.“Karklin said the cuts were not related to individual performance o…
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Google is on a heater.The company just announced yet another new family of artificial-intelligence models named Gemma. These are smaller than Gemini, Google’s biggest model, but their technical data is publicly available, and researchers and developers can customize them.In the past three months, Google has launched Gemini, killed Bard and renamed it Gemini, launched a better version named Gemini Advanced (not to be confused with Gemini Ultra, which is the name of the model), launched another im…
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As Google injects artificial intelligence into every product it possibly can, it’s also turning to AI to make its business more efficient.The company has launched a large language model named Goose that’s just for employees. It is designed to assist with building new products, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider.The documents describe Goose as a “descendant of Gemini,” its big new large language model. Goose is “trained on the sum total of 25 years of engineering experti…
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