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A lawsuit filed by the family of Jonathan Gavalas alleges Google's AI encouraged harmful behavior that posed a risk to public safety and ultimately led to his suicide.
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Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are intended to protect residents from seeing higher electricity costs as more and more businesses create power-hungry data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI have all apparently signed on. A few of the participants — Amazon, Google and Meta — had conveniently timed press releases patting themselves on the back for their participation and touting whatever other policies they have for mitigating the negative impacts of data center construction.
The main provisions of the federal pledge have tech companies agreeing to "build, bring, or buy the new generation resources and electricity needed to satisfy their new energy demands, paying the full cost of those resources." It also claims they will pay for any needed power infrastructure upgrades and operate under separate rate structures for power that will see payments
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Welcome back, Fortnite: Google is already making improvements to the Google Play Store following last year's Epic Games settlement.
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Gemini allegedly told the man, "The true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die."
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TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5 Google: Google Home just announced a bunch of Gemini, smart home updates rolling out now. "Google has announced a number of updates to the Gemini for Home experience […]
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OpenAI, Google, and Alibaba unveil faster, cheaper AI models built for real-time apps and local devices, signaling a shift from AI power to speed and efficiency.
The post OpenAI, Google, and Alibaba Drop Faster, Cheaper Models appeared first on eWEEK.
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NEW RESOURCES Cornish Times: Mazed Tales launches Cornwall-wide story map. "What began as a project rooted in Cornish Times country is now a Cornwall-wide digital archive of more than 150 folk tales, […]
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Image Credit: Eric Zeman/ Android AuthorityThe January OTA pack for Google Pixel 6 ("oropiole") and Google Pixel 6 Pro ("raven") has started rolling out. The software update brings fixes from December and January that should help Pixel 6 series smartphones run at full speed after numerous bugs and problems seemed to affect the functionality.
Google has revealed that the January software update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro is now available as factory images and full OTA images via the Google Play services website (12.0.0 (SQ1D.220105.007), Jan 2022 - specific device/images links can be found in "sources" below). Those who prefer to wait for the OTA package to ar
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