Samsung, Google, Oppo and other smartphone manufacturers are now betting big on AI features. Apple is also about to enter the race with Apple Intelligence that’s arriving with iOS 18.1. As AI is evolving rapidly, our reliance on this tech is also increasing and it turns out companies are planning to use it in…
Google won a court fight with the European Union over a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) fine for thwarting competition for online ads, partly atoning for last week’s crushing defeat in a separate judgment for abusing its monopoly powers. Judges at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg backed the Alphabet Inc. unit’s challenge to a…
Google is reportedly bringing new features to its Google Photos app to help users edit their photos in hassle-free ways. According to a recent APK teardown by tech publication Android Authority, the existing Spotlights feature has been renamed as Presets on Google Photos version 6.97 on Android devices. The Presets feature might provide four…
Reddit Inc. spent more than a decade known as the internet’s edgy bulletin board, a site where mostly anonymous users could post memes and share wild opinions on topics ranging from investing advice to Taylor Swift’s love life. It was also a service many advertisers tended to avoid. Now, six months into life as a…
What if we tell you that you can find all Google services in one place on your PC? Yes, Google has launched a new Windows PC app called “Google Essentials” that will offer users several company services such as Google Photos, Google Drive, Google Messages, Google Play Games and more. This new app will…
Google announced its new AI-powered feature Circle to Search feature earlier this year with some advanced capabilities. While the feature is limited to Pixel and some of the high-end smartphones, Samsung has announced the availability of the feature to more users. Now the Circle to Search feature will be available to more Samsung device…
OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT, has made its entry in the search engine space with SearchGPT. Still in the testing phase, OpenAI’s SearchGPT combines the company’s AI models with information from the web to get fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. The new move from OpenAI directly stacks it against…
Apple has become the first big tech company to be charged with breaking the European Union’s new digital markets rules, three days after the tech giant said it would not release artificial intelligence in the bloc due to regulation. On Monday, the European Commission said that Apple’s App Store was preventing developers from communicating…
Aaron Damigos’ inbox was hit with a dreaded, ubiquitous business-update calendar invite on June 3. The meeting included someone from HR, his manager, and upper management—and ultimately resulted in the sudden end to his job as a web support associate with Microsoft. Microsoft reportedly laid off some 1,000 people in early June, pulling from…
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence has been a key focus of the Google parent since 2016, back when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was in its infancy. After all, Google researchers invented the “T” in GPT (as in generative pre-trained transformer). It was a critical innovation that made conversational search using large language models possible. Somehow though, Google…
