When disasters strike, Google products like Search and Maps help billions of people make critical decisions to stay safe. Our flood forecasting information — now covering more than two billion people — provides life-saving forecasts before the most significant river floods. It's helped organizations like World Vision get drinking water and food to communities when they need it most. And during the devastating...
Mark Zuckerberg spent much of this year poaching employees from rival tech companies including OpenAI, Apple and xAI for his artificial intelligence unit aka Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Now, in October, the company's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang has reportedly told employees that 600 roles from the unit will be cut.Notably, Meta's newly formed TBD Lab group, which includes many of the highly...
But the Bezos Earth Fund is looking at how “modern" AI—more efficient AI tools and technology—can be leveraged to protect climate and nature.
On Thursday,...
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all.A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent too long doomscrolling on X or TikTok."We live in...
Today the CMA designated Google’s ‘Mobile Platform’ (Android, Play, Chrome, Blink) with ‘strategic market status’. This decision is disappointing, disproportionate and unwarranted.The UK’s new digital markets regime was introduced with the promise of being pro-growth and pro-innovation, with the CMA emphasising that its work would be highly targeted and proportionate. In this context, we simply do not see the rationale for today’s designation...
