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  Google Said to Have Asked FTC to Break Up Microsoft's Cloud Deal With OpenAI

  Google has asked the US government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers. The conversation reportedly happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.

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  Google Photos Rolls Out ‘Undo Device Backup’ Feature for Better Cloud Storage Management

  Google has introduced a new feature for its Photos app that aims to make deleting backed-up photos and videos easier. It was reportedly first spotted in June, with code strings of the Google Photos app hinting at a feature with similar functionality. The feature, dubbed ‘Undo Device Backup’, lets users remove media from the cloud storage space ...

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  Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study

  Google introduced its weather predicting artificial intelligence (AI) model GenCast on Wednesday. The AI model was developed by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s AI research division Google DeepMind. The company’s researchers have also published a paper on the technology highlighting its capabilities in making medium-range weather forecasts....

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  Google Drive for Android Reportedly Developing Privacy Screen Feature for Enhanced Security

  Google Drive is developing a new feature for Android devices that is speculated to add a layer of security while accessing the app, according to a report. It is said to have been discovered during an APK teardown of the app on the Android platform. The feature, called Privacy Screen, has been available on the iOS version of the cloud storage app si...

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  Android’s New Feature Will Automatically Log Users Back Into Apps When Switching Devices

  Google has announced a new feature for Android which aims to make the process of switching to and setting up new devices a quicker and more efficient experience. The feature, called Restore Credentials, can automatically log users back into apps on devices once the switchover is complete, leveraging a restore key.

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  Google Cloud Partners With DeliverHealth to Bring AI Solutions for Clinical Documentations

  Google Cloud announced a collaboration with DeliverHealth, a clinical documentation and digital health platform, on Thursday. The announcement was made at the Google Cloud Startup Summit 2024 India event in Bengaluru. The strategic partnership will combine the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini AI models with the large data repository of the...

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  Google Cloud Will Make Multi-Factor Authentication Mandatory for All Users Starting 2025

  Google Cloud will soon make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all users, the platform’s Vice President of Engineering announced on Tuesday. The company says this decision has been taken in a bid to strengthen the cloud platform’s security without affecting the convenient online experience that it provides.

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  Google Generating ‘More Than a Quarter of All New Code by AI’, Says CEO Sundar Pichai

  Google’s parent company Alphabet posted its quarterly earnings on Tuesday. A major highlight of the earnings call with company CEO Sundar Pichai was how the Mountain View-based tech giant is optimising the costs of running expensive artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure for all of its products and services. The CEO said that the company has...

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  Google Drive Rolls Out New Video Player With Fast-Forward and Rewind Buttons

  Google is rolling out a revamped video player for its cloud storage service — Google Drive. It gets a new look in line with the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Material Design 3 system. Following its introduction, there are dedicated buttons for fast-forwarding and rewinding the media while the playback speed adjustment option also gets an enh...

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  Vodafone Partners With Google to Promote AI Phones and Services

  The 10-year expansion of an existing partnership will see Vodafone promote Google’s cloud storage subscriptions, including Google One AI Premium, which gives access to the Gemini chatbot, Vodafone said in a statement on Tuesday.

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  Google Docs Gets New ‘Document Tabs’ Feature to Help You Organise Your Doc Files Better

  First announced at its Cloud Next 2024 event, Google is now bringing its document tabs feature for Google Docs users. The feature basically lets Google Docs users add tabs to their word or doc files being edited on the online web app, that lets them better organise their docs files into several parts just like the tabs feature in Google Sheets.

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  Google Cloud, Research Units Collaborate to Speed AI Development

  Collaboration between Google Cloud and the company’s research arm, Google DeepMind, can help accelerate product to market, executives said. That’s important as investors press parent company Alphabet Inc. to show how AI investments can turn into new business.

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  Snapchat Partners With Google to Deploy My AI Powered by Gemini, Adds Computer Vision Capabilities

  Snapchat has partnered with Google Cloud to bring the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to My AI. Announced on Tuesday, the strategic partnership has allowed the social media platform to add computer vision capabilities as well as improved processing of text, audio, and code. As per the Mountain View-based tech giant, Sn...

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  Google, Volkswagen Partner on Smartphone AI Assistant

  Google is providing key capabilities for an AI assistant for Volkswagen drivers in a smartphone app. The AI assistant draws on Google's Gemini large language models, programs that can understand and generate predictive responses to human language, and cloud computing capacity.

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  Qatar Financial Centre Activates Digital Assets Lab Nearly a Year After Announcement

  The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), located in Doha, has activated the ‘Digital Assets Lab’ that is aimed at enabling the development, testing, and commercialisation of Web3 services. As part of this initiative, leading Web3 firms such as Polygon, Partior, and ALT Realtech have been selected to develop blockchain-based solutions tailored to their...