Google is adding more AI to its search results
Google has built a custom Gemini model for search to combine real-time information, Google's ranking, long context and multimodal features.
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Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages
A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.
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Apple touts stopping $1.8BN in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers
Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially fraudulent transa...
Google I/O 2024: Everything announced so far
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
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Google Photos introduces an AI search feature, ‘Ask Photos’
The AI upgrade will make finding the right content more intuitive and less of a manual search process.
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Inside TabaPay’s drama-filled decision to abandon its plans to buy Synapse’s assets
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we look at the drama around TabaPay deciding to not buy Synapse’s assets, as well as stocks dropping for a couple of fintechs, Monzo raising even more funds, ...
Expedia starts testing AI-powered features for search and travel planning
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates.
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On Elon’s whim, X now treats ‘cisgender’ as a slur
If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats-cisgender-as-a-slur/
Threat actor scraped Dell support tickets, including customer phone numbers
The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned. The newly compromised da...
Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: Watch the GPT-4o reveal and demo here
The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”
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Sources: Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that...
Google I/O 2024: What to expect
You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.
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Meta’s Oversight Board overturns takedown decision for Pakistan child abuse documentary
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta's decision to take down a documentary revealing the identities of child abuse victims in Pakistan.
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Google I/O 2024: How to watch
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-i-o-2024-how-to-watch/
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky steps down
Adam Selipsky is stepping down from his role as CEO of AWS, Amazon PR has confirmed to TechCrunch. In a memo shared internally by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and published this morning to the company’s blo...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/aws-ceo-adam-selipsky-steps-down/
After surpassing $100M in ARR, Harness Labs grabs a $150M line of credit
Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Cr...
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes "Slack channel fatigue," he says.
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Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps
The company's autonomous vehicles have had a number of misadventures lately, involving driving into construction sites.
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Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, whi...