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AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says

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Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacksBusiness live – latest updatesIn just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google.The findings from Google’s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, global discussion about […]

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Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

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Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar errorDevelopers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres –

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Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews

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The top of a Google search page is prime real estate, but it has primarily been the domain of AI Overviews for the past two years. Websites that spent years optimizing for Google search haven’t exactly loved being pushed down the page by a chatbot and may blame AI Overviews for recent traffic drops. Google

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Chrome’s 4GB AI model isn’t new, but you’re not wrong for being confused

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All of Google’s products have been getting more AI features, including Chrome, which now offers split-screen Gemini chatbot support, the ability to automate web browsing, and more. Some desktop Chrome users have also noted that the browser appears to suddenly want more storage space for AI. This is true—Chrome does download a 4GB AI model

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Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit

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Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much as a clock. Google’s newest wearable jumps on that trend: The Fitbit Air doesn’t have

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Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

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This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had stubbornly cast aside the Biden-era policy, dismissing the need for voluntary safety checks as overregulation blocking unbridled innovation. Soon

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Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing

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Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Online developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves

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Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing

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Google’s Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens

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Google launched its Gemma 4 open models this spring, promising a new level of power and performance for local AI. Google’s take on edge AI could be getting even faster already with the release of Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for Gemma. Google says these experimental models leverage a form of speculative decoding to take a

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Silicon Six: How Big Tech Avoided $278 Billion in Tax

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The Silicon Six avoided $278bn in US taxes over a decade. Here’s how Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Netflix & Microsoft did it — and why it keeps happening. The post Silicon Six: How Big Tech Avoided $278 Billion in Tax appeared first on 1redDrop.

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