google Google Demands Clearview AI Halt Facial Recognition Photo Scraping Google and YouTube issue a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, demanding the startup stop extracting photos for its controversial facial recognition database. Clearview's CEO vows to fight the order in court by comparing the practice to standard search engine indexing.
google Google Unveils Meena, an AI Chatbot That Mimics Human Conversation Google introduces Meena, a highly advanced open-domain chatbot trained on billions of words to converse naturally on any topic. The new AI scores close to human levels on a proprietary conversation test, outperforming major competitors.
alibaba Chinese Tech Giants Deploy AI Tools to Accelerate Coronavirus Research Alibaba and Baidu release artificial intelligence tools to help scientists rapidly sequence the coronavirus genome. These technological efforts join broader initiatives by Google and Facebook to combat the global health crisis.
google maps Artist Uses Wagon Full of Phones to Fake Traffic Jams on Google Maps A clever artist tricks Google Maps into showing severe traffic by pulling a wagon filled with 99 active smartphones down empty streets. This harmless prank successfully reroutes real drivers who are trying to avoid the fake congestion.
youtube premium YouTube Premium Reaches 20 Million Subscribers as Ad Revenue Surges Google reveals that YouTube Music and Premium combine for 20 million paid subscribers, while YouTube TV doubles its user base to 2 million. The platform also reports a significant jump in overall ad revenue for 2019.
facebook Tech Giants Scramble to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation Online Major technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are actively working to limit the spread of false information about the coronavirus outbreak on their platforms.
google Google Unveils Meena, a Chatbot That Nears Human Conversation Skills Google introduces Meena, a new chatbot trained on massive amounts of social media data that outperforms competitors in conversational tests. The company holds back a public release to thoroughly check the AI for safety and bias issues.
google Google's Dataset Search Exits Beta With New Mobile Features Google officially launches Dataset Search out of beta, giving researchers access to 25 million publicly available data sets. The updated tool introduces a mobile-friendly interface and new filtering options to help users find specific data types.
netflix Netflix Rejects Ad-Supported Model Despite Investor Pressure Netflix CEO Reed Hastings firmly rejects an ad-supported tier, arguing that competing with Google, Facebook, and Amazon for online ad revenue is too difficult and not worth the privacy trade-offs.
google Google Joins Apple and Microsoft in the Trillion-Dollar Club Alphabet, Google's parent company, reaches a $1 trillion market valuation, making it the fourth US tech giant to hit the milestone alongside Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.
alphabet Alphabet Reaches $1 Trillion Market Cap Behind Cloud Growth and New Leadership Google's parent company Alphabet joins an exclusive club of U.S. companies worth $1 trillion. Investors show strong optimism regarding newly appointed CEO Sundar Pichai and a rapidly growing cloud business.
google Google Accelerates Google+ Shutdown After New API Bug Exposes 52.5 Million Users Google speeds up the closure of consumer Google+ to April 2019 after discovering a software bug that exposes the profile data of 52.5 million users. The company states that no third parties compromised its systems or misused the exposed information.
google Google Unveils New Assistant Features at CES 2020 Google focuses its CES 2020 presence entirely on Google Assistant, introducing handy new capabilities like webpage reading and digital sticky notes.
google Google AI Breast Cancer Tool Reduces Screening Errors Across Borders DeepMind and Google Health create an AI system that outperforms human radiologists in detecting breast cancer, even when trained on data from a different country.
google Google DeepMind AI Outperforms Doctors in Breast Cancer Screening Tests A new Google Health AI system shows greater accuracy than human radiologists in detecting breast cancer, significantly reducing both false positives and false negatives.