Decades after IBM and Microsoft, Google becomes the rare tech giant to be prosecuted in wide and sweeping antitrust action Starting tomorrow (Sep. 12), Google, the world’s most-used search engine, has to prove that it is not using its pole position in the sector to cannibalize its competition. In October 2020, the US Department of…
Google parent company Alphabet told employees to avoid entering confidential information into chatbots and warned them about the risks of AI tools including its very own chatbot Bard. Alphabet also advised engineers against directly utilizing code provided by chatbots. While bots can, in fact, produce certain code, they run the risk of introducing errors or producing “undesirable”…
The demo includes an inaccuracy about the James Webb Space Telescope, underscoring the misinformation risks of using Bard and ChatGPT to refine search. As Google’s AI-powered Bard prepares to compete against ChatGPT, don’t count on the chatbot programs always being right: A recent demo of Bard shows it spouting inaccurate information. Bard, which Google announced…
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google’s online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States but is actually Russian, Reuters has found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had been deceived into believing Pushwoosh was based in the U.S. capital….
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued Google, alleging it violated privacy laws by illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans’ without their informed consent for almost a decade. The suit, filed in Midland County state district court, accuses Google of collecting unique information of those who use its voice…
Greetings from Tyler, The news/talk station played an interesting ad this morning. A friendly guy was talking about how he was always doing his best to “be safe” and keep everybody around him safe. And how nice it was to have others remind him if he was not fulfilling some protocol or other. Have a…
Sen. Hawley called it ‘the most important antitrust case in a generation’ Lawmakers in the House and Senate on Tuesday welcomed the Justice Department’s (DOJ’s) move to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google that claims the tech behemoth used its power to preserve its monopoly via its search engine. “Today’s lawsuit is the most important antitrust…
In his great and prophetic novel 1984, George Orwell laid out his vision of what totalitarianism would look like if taken to its logical extreme. The government – in the form of Big Brother – sees all and knows all. The Party rewrites the past and controls the present. Heretics pop up on television screens…
Trump’s executive order seeks to limit the power of social-media companies to moderate speech on their platforms. Associated Press President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to crack down on social-media companies over allegations of bias against conservatives. The move comes two days after Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets pushing false claims…