Erin Woo
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1 week ago |
theinformation.com | Erin Woo
Source: The InformationThe head of engineering for Google’s Gemini chatbot, Amar Subramanya, is leaving the company, employees were told in a reorganization announced last week. Separately, Mat Velloso, the head of product for Google DeepMind’s AI developer platform, has also left Google, a Google spokesperson confirmed.
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2 weeks ago |
theinformation.com | Erin Woo
Source: ReutersGoogle is planning to stop the majority of its work with Scale AI after rival Meta took a 49% stake in Scale and hired its CEO in a deal announced this week, Reuters reported on Friday. The decision, while not surprising, would still result in a blow to Scale’s business. Google is Scale’s largest customer and had planned to spend $200 million this year on Scale’s data labeling services, Reuters reported.
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3 weeks ago |
theinformation.com | Erin Woo
Source: The InformationGoogle has agreed to spend $500 million over 10 years and create new compliance committees to settle shareholder litigation accusing it of antitrust violations, according to court documents filed Friday. Shareholders led by pension funds in Michigan and Pennsylvania sued Google’s parent company Alphabet and its board of directors for breaching its duty to shareholders by exposing them to antitrust risks.
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4 weeks ago |
theinformation.com | Erin Woo
Source: BloombergA federal judge questioned whether he should impose restrictions on Google’s actions in AI in order to address its illegal monopoly in search, as both the government and Google made their closing arguments in the remedies phase of the Google search monopoly trial on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The judge has said that he expects to issue a ruling by August.
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1 month ago |
theinformation.com | Erin Woo
Source: BloombergThe Department of Justice is investigating whether Google’s $2.7 billion deal to license technology from the AI startup Character.AI and hire many of its employees violated antitrust law, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. As part of the Character deal, Google hired both of Character’s cofounders.
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Last year, Google scrapped its onstage Gemini Live demo for i/o after OpenAI released voice mode the night before with a near-identical script. This year, they're working on: -a "software development lifecycle" agent -a Pinterest competitor -& more https://t.co/m4s2UcSOes