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Image: Mark Hachman / IDG AI-powered chat and search apps are smoking hot right now, but there’s a small problem: They run in a browser, and that requires navigating to each site individually. But what if you didn’t have to? The new AI-powered Bing, ChatGPT, and (eventually) Google’s Bard search…

Thursday 09 February 2023 2:06 pm Alphabet shares plummeted yesterday after its brand new chatbot answered a question wrong during a promotional event.   Google’s parent company Alphabet’s shares plummeted yesterday after its brand new AI chatbot answered a question wrong during a promotional video. The owner of Google saw shares…

As it turns out, Google’s Bard, the AI chatbot meant to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is still pretty uhhm, bad, according to the stock market. A “mistake”, which might not have been a mistake after all, made by the tool, caused Alphabet’s stock, Google’s parent company, to plummet by as much…

Associated Press Coaching conundrum, player departures rock All BlacksThe expected appointment of a new head coach and reports of a growing exodus of leading players have begun to shake the All Blacks’ preparation for this year’s Rugby World Cup in France. New Zealand Rugby has indicated it likely will announce…

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ChatGPT continues to make big waves in 2023. Companies like Google and Microsoft must be equally excited and terrified at the prospect of regular consumers using an imperfect chatbot to get answers to complex questions. But they might not be the only tech giants ready to respond to the emergence…

With Microsoft looking to integrate ChatGPT into Bing, and many proclaiming AI responders to be the next evolution of search, it seemed inevitable that Google, too, would eventually throw its hat into the generative AI ring. Today, Google has announced Bard, a conversational AI service which will provide ‘fresh, high-quality…

Monday, February 6, 2023 Google search used to illustrate the story More than 75,000 workers were laid off from the tech industry in January, less than 37 days into the new year, according to Trading Platform.  Data presented by Trading Platformindicates that close to 80,000 people were laid off, with tens…

It’s rather hard to change how people use their phones. One recent example was Google wanting to meaningfully change how you interacted with “People and conversations” on Android in large parts through widgets. Google made “People and conversations” a tentpole of Android 11 back in 2020. It – correctly –…

Image Source: PixabayGoogle has invested approximately $300 million in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, whose biggest investor is Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund of disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried. According to a Friday report from the Financial Times, Google invested around $300 million in Anthropic in late 2022 despite its ties…