Google hoped to enter an agreement with Apple by the middle of this year to include its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) technology on new phones, CEO Sundar Pichai said in testimony at an antitrust trial in Washington on Wednesday. Pichai testified in the Alphabet unit’s defence against proposals by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) … Read more
Google has teamed up with Pokémon to launch a minigame on the search giant’s mobile web browser. To play the game, Google users must search the names of any of the 151 original Pokémon such as Pikachu, Squirtle, Charmander or Bulbasaur in the search bar. Following which, a Pokéball will appear at the bottom right … Read more
Google is working on integrating more AI features into its search engine. The company is now having its U.S. employees test a new feature called “AI Mode.” The publication 9to5 Google uncovered an internal email detailing that employees had been invited to dogfood (test), the AI Mode, which is intended to be a form of … Read more
OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has faced two major outages in December, disrupting access to its Sora and ChatGPT platforms for hours. While these outages seem unrelated to OpenAI’s recent move to offer ChatGPT Search for free to all users, they do raise concerns about the company’s ability to scale its … Read more
OpenAI faced two outages in December, causing hours-long disruption to its Sora and ChatGPT platforms. To recall, the company made ChatGPT Search available to all users for free this month. While this doesn’t directly have anything to do with the outages, it does raise questions about the company’s ability to scale. If it intends to … Read more