Google, Spotify and outages
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Instead of digging through all the top search results, you can now ask Google Search to give you a comprehensive AI-generated summary with its Audio Overviews feature. The AI feature uses Google Gemini models to create a short audio clip that sounds like a conversational podcast with two hosts.
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.
Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.
I'm a fan of Google Photos, but I have a few suggestions about how the app can retain its dominance for another decade.
New Workspace features also allow Gemini to create and summarize Google Forms.
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Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google’s planned $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz Inc. would illegally limit competition in the marketplace, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Is nothing Google working right for you all of a sudden? You're not alone, as an outage impacts multiple Workspace services.
Internal documents show Google used ChatGPT to improve Bard. Scale AI workers were ordered to "see why GPT4 is better."