Google is paying $32 billion in cash to buy Wiz, a noted cybersecurity startup. The purchase not only improves Google’s cloud services’ security but also leads the company beyond its search engine and Internet services businesses.
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NEWEST AI’S OUTSMART OUR ABILITY TO MEASURE THEIR INTELLIGENCE
The abilities of early AIs could be measured according to several standard tests. As AI models became more sophisticated, the tests have had to become more difficult.
GOOGLE’S AI WEATHERMAN IS TWICE AS ACCURATE AS HUMAN FORECASTERS
GenCast, Google’s new AI-based weather forecaster, absorbed daily weather data recorded in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from 1978 through 2018.
GOOGLE SCORES QUANTUM COMPUTER BREAKTHROUGH
Quantum computers, which take advantage of subatomic particles’ strange behavior, have taken a giant step forward in Google’s new “Willow” quantum computer chip.
GOOGLE COMMISSIONS MINI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TO RUN DATA CENTERS
Google has signed what it says is "the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors.”
GOOGLE “MONOPOLIST” BREAKUP?
We had long forecast that legislation in Congress to hold tech corporations accountable for monopolistic practices would unfortunately probably not succeed.
JUST STEAL CONTENT AND LAWYER UP: ERIC SCHMIDT’S ADVICE TO AI STARTUPS
Steal content to feed AI and continue to establish realities on the ground that can’t be turned back.
GOOGLE MOVES AGAINST DEEPFAKE PORN
Google is enlisting its iconic search engine in the battle against deepfake porn.
TECH FIRMS’ AI FRENZY CONTRADICTS THEIR STATED CLIMATE GOALS
Google has promised to cut its carbon emissions by 50 percent compared to 2019; Microsoft pledges it will be carbon negative by 2030.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.