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Google Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAI
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to ...
Google hires Windsurf execs in $2.4 billion deal to advance AI coding ambitions
Alphabet's Google has hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf, the companies announced on ...
Google’s Veo 3 Is Spawning an Icky Wave of AI Slop Coaches
The only thing worse than making AI slop is arguably paying someone to teach you how to make it.
Google AI summaries increase frequency of ‘zero clicks’ to search results, sinking traffic to news sites: report
Since Google rolled out AI Overviews in May 2024, the percentage of web searches without a click to a news site has jumped ...
Missouri attorney general asserts that AI chatbots are biased against Trump
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, called AI responses to be just “the tip of the iceberg” of what he ...
Nvidia-backed Perplexity launches AI-powered browser to take on Google Chrome
Nvidia-backed Perplexity AI said on Wednesday it has launched Comet, a new web browser with AI-powered search capabilities, ...
How Google found its AI hype guy
Logan Kilpatrick has become the public face of Google's AI offensive, and, intentionally or not, a one-man marketing machine.
Top news sites suffer drastic drop in web traffic since Google added AI search — with some plunging 40%
According to new data published by Similarweb, 37 of the top 50 news domains saw year-over-year traffic declines.
Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers
BRUSSELS, July 4 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from ...
Gemini AI can now turn photos into videos
Google just launched a new Gemini AI feature that lets you transform photos into video clips. The new photo-to-video ...