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Wu Yonghui, a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), has left his position at Google to join ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, the South China Morning Post reports. Wu, a "Google Fellow" with 17 years of experience at the US tech giant, will now

Asked ChatGPT anything lately? Talked with a customer service chatbot? Read the results of Google's "AI Overviews" summary feature? If you've used the Internet lately, chances are, you've consumed content created by a large language model. These models, like DeepSeek-R1 or OpenAI's ChatGPT, are kind of like the predictive text feature in your phone on steroids. In order for them to "learn" how to write, the models are trained on millions of examples of human-written text. Thanks in part to these same large language models, a lot of content on the Internet today is written by generative AI. That means that AI models trained nowadays may be consuming their own synthetic content ... and suffering the consequences.View the AI-generated images mentioned in this episode.Have another topic in artificial intelligence you want us to cover? Let us know my emailing shortwave@npr.org!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

Earlier this month, Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to Google with reporters, arguing that the U.S. had no authority to unilaterally rename the Gulf.

Anthropic Tries to Halt Government’s Plans for Google  PYMNTS.com

ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

Tech companies, facing legal risks and a new political climate, are scaling back, cutting or rethinking efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis ‘Calm and Confident’ About AI Strategy  PYMNTS.com

Google's AI head wants employees to chill out over DeepSeek  Quartz

Google AI chief tells employees company has 'all the ingredients' to hold AI lead over China's DeepSeek  CNBC

The app is available again for download from Apple’s and Google’s app stores after it was removed following a U.S. ban on Jan. 18.

TikTok is back on Apple and Google app stores in the US, as reported by Reuters. The popular short-video app, used by 170 million American users, had been removed for several weeks following President Trump's initial ban. However, Trump's executive order last month delayed the ban

The UK government has announced a collaboration with AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and Amazon, to explore the use of its chatbot Claude for public services, Reuters reports.The partnership aims to improve public interaction with information and services, aligning with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's goal of

TikTok has returned to the Apple and Google app stores.

Apple and Google removed the app after the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting firms from doing business with TikTok as long as it is controlled by China-based ByteDance.

Google's head of public policy in India, Sreenivasa Reddy, has quit, a company ... news website The Information reported on Wednesday, with the AI startup racing to catch up with Microsoft-backed ...

In an interview with CRN, the head of Arm’s infrastructure business talks about how the company has convinced Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Nvidia to use its technologies to ...

After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital Management and others followed with their own. One prominent competitor, Anthropic, has been noticeably absent ...

Google's head of public policy in India, Sreenivasa Reddy, has quit, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, marking the second departure in around two years in the critical role in a key ...

Malaysia is set to receive AI tools from Google, deploying them across its public sector to improve efficiency and modernize services, Nikkei Asia reports.The program, spearheaded by the Digital Ministry's National Artificial Intelligence Office (NAIO), will use AI-powered tools from Google Cloud to enhance government operations.Digital

Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt fears for 'Bin Laden' AI scenario  BBC.com

It comes as the company leans more heavily into AI and as it faces pressure from lawmakers.

We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and it simply works. But this system relies on swarms of “crawlers”—bots that roam the web, visit millions of websites every day, and report what they see. This is how Google powers its search engines, how Amazon sets competitive prices, and…

Google has abandoned its goal of increasing the proportion of underrepresented groups in its leadership by 2025, citing a changing legal and policy landscape. The company announced the move in an email to employees on Wednesday, a decision that comes amidst a broader industry trend.The Wall Street Journal reports

Amazon shares took a significant hit on Friday, falling 4%, after the company's quarterly cloud computing revenue growth fell short of investor expectations, as reported by Reuters. This slowdown comes despite massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and follows similar disappointing results from Microsoft and Alphabet-owned Google.The

Google Calendar has removed reference to observances such as the beginning of Black history Month on Feb. 1, and Women's History Month on March 1.

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS cloud sales for fourth quarter 2024 includes global market share, total revenue, operating income and sales growth comparison.

The market’s verdict was swift and unforgiving. In the wake of Alphabet’s latest earnings report, shares of the Google parent plummeted, wiping out billions in market capitalization. The reason? Not weak profits, but a combination of slowing growth in its cloud computing division and a staggering

The market’s verdict was swift and unforgiving. In the wake of Alphabet’s latest earnings report, shares of the Google parent plummeted, wiping out billions in market capitalization. The reason? Not weak profits, but a combination of slowing growth in its cloud computing division and a staggering

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge  TechCrunch

Amazon.com is facing intense scrutiny as investors await its fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday, where its cloud computing performance will be under the microscope, Reuters reports. This comes after lackluster results from Microsoft and Google sent shockwaves through the tech sector, raising concerns about the viability of massive AI