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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love |Davey Alba
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will offer “AI mode” in search to all US users, part of an effort to bring products to market faster and keep pace with new rivals in the artificial intelligence age. “We want to get our best models into your hands,” Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said at the company’s developer conference in Mountain View, California.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Davey Alba |Julia Love
While using web site data to build a Google Search topped with artificial intelligence-generated answers, an Alphabet Inc. executive acknowledged in an internal document that there was an alternative way to do things: They could ask web publishers for permission, or let them directly opt out of being included. But giving publishers a choice would make training AI models in search too complicated, the company concludes in the document, which was unearthed in the company’s search antitrust trial.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Davey Alba |Julia Love
While using web site data to build a Google Search topped with artificial intelligence-generated answers, an Alphabet Inc. executive acknowledged in an internal document that there was an alternative way to do things: They could ask web publishers for permission, or let them directly opt out of being included. But giving publishers a choice would make training AI models in search too complicated, the company concludes in the document, which was unearthed in the company’s search antitrust trial.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love |Davey Alba
One day in 2021, Google’s web search team presented leadership with what was, at the time, a novel proposal: Rather than just have the search engine serve up its familiar list of links, have a chatbot greet visitors at the search results page and offer to answer questions directly. This wasn’t necessarily a shocking idea.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love |Davey Alba
One day in 2021, Google’s web search team presented leadership with what was, at the time, a novel proposal: Rather than just have the search engine serve up its familiar list of links, have a chatbot greet visitors at the search results page and offer to answer questions directly. This wasn’t necessarily a shocking idea.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love |Gillian Tan |Davey Alba
Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday cut staffers in its cloud division, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg could not determine the size of the layoffs or how many workers have been affected. The round of cuts impacted only a few teams, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the round hasn’t been publicly announced.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love |Olivia Solon |Davey Alba
Alphabet Inc.’s Google removed a passage from its artificial intelligence principles that pledged to avoid using the technology in potentially harmful applications, such as weapons. The company’s AI Principles previously included a passage titled “AI applications we will not pursue,” such as “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” including weapons, according to screenshots viewed by Bloomberg. That language is no longer visible on the page.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Rachel Metz |Shirin Ghaffary |Dina Bass |Julia Love
OpenAI was on the cusp of a milestone. The startup finished an initial round of training in September for a massive new artificial intelligence model that it hoped would significantly surpass prior versions of the technology behind ChatGPT and move closer to its goal of powerful AI that outperforms humans.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Marissa Newman |Mark Bergen |Julia Love |Christine Burke
(Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia is planning a new artificial intelligence project with backing of as much as $100 billion as it seeks to develop a technological hub to rival the neighboring United Arab Emirates, people familiar with the matter said. The state-backed entity will invest in data centers, startups and other infrastructure to develop artificial intelligence, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing plans that aren’t yet public.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Marissa Newman |Mark Bergen |Julia Love |Christine Burke
Saudi Arabia is planning a new artificial intelligence project with backing of as much as $100 billion as it seeks to develop a technological hub to rival the neighboring United Arab Emirates, people familiar with the matter said. The state-backed entity will invest in data centers, startups and other infrastructure to develop artificial intelligence, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing plans that aren’t yet public.
