Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google is testing facial recognition technology for office security “to help prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to our campuses,” according to a description of the program that was viewed by CNBC. The initial test is taking place at one of Alphabet’s sites in Kirkland, Washington, a Seattle … Read more
It’s been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet’s YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn’t really know what to do with it. YouTube, which effectively invented user-generated content, claims a daunting share of overall media consumption. And it’s no longer just dominating the internet, it’s dominating the living room, too. YouTube made up 9.7% of … Read more
A Waymo rider-only robotaxi is seen during a test ride in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2022. Paresh Dave | Reuters Waymo robotaxis are now open to all users in San Francisco, expanding the self-driving ride-hailing service, which has been available in the city to a limited number of riders. In a blog post on … Read more
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release several upcoming features unveiled this month, including its flagship “Apple Intelligence” AI product, in … Read more
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI competitor Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet. Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon. … Read more
Liz Reid, vice president, search, Google speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022. Sajjad Hussain | AFP | Getty Images Google’s new head of search said at an all-hands meeting last week that mistakes will occur as artificial intelligence becomes more integrated in internet search, but that the company should keep … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L), John Giannandrea (C), senior VP of machine learning and AI strategy and Craig Federighi (L), senior VP software engineering, speak during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC) in Cupertino, California on June 10, 2024. Nic Coury | AFP | Getty Images Apple fully embraced artificial intelligence on Monday, as company … Read more
Meta‘s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has spent much of the past week sparring with Elon Musk over the Tesla CEO’s treatment of scientists and news organizations, and for spreading false conspiracies on social media. “I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and … Read more
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud-computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet is laying off employees from several teams in Google’s cloud unit, one of its fastest-growing businesses, CNBC has learned. The company notified employees last week of the cloud cuts, with … Read more
Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images HubSpot shares rallied 8% on Tuesday after CNBC’s David Faber reported that Alphabet is looking at an all-stock offer for the software company. Reports of a potential deal first surfaced in early April, when Reuters published a story saying Alphabet was talking to advisors about making an offer … Read more
