Oppo is the sixth-largest smartphone maker in China, according to Counterpoint Research. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Chinese smartphone firm Oppo is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook with the launch of a private cloud computing system to keep users’ sensitive conversations separate from its own artificial intelligence products. The company…
Chinese smartphone company Honor has released devices that fold up to be nearly as thin as an iPhone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced a deepening partnership with Google, as the Chinese smartphone maker looks to…
Chinese smartphone company Honor has released devices that fold up to be nearly as thin as an iPhone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced a deepening partnership with Google, as the Chinese smartphone maker looks to…
A view of the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on April 16, 2024. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images Google told staffers in its “People Operations” and cloud organizations this week that it plans to cut employees as part of internal reorganizations, CNBC has learned. The company will offer a voluntary exit program…
Chegg seen at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 13, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results have hurt the online education company’s traffic and revenue. The legal move come nearly two years after former CEO Dan…
Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online “a blatant disregard for user privacy.” Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices. Google says this data is already widely used by other…
Google has become the latest big US firm to scrap its goals to recruit more workers from underrepresented groups, BBC News understands. The decision to abandon the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) recruitment targets comes after the company carried out an annual review of its corporate policies. The technology giant is also reviewing some of…
Jaque Silva | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Google on Wednesday released Gemini 2.0 — its “most capable” artificial intelligence model suite yet — to everyone. In December, the company gave access to developers and trusted testers, as well as wrapping some features into Google products, but this is a “general release,” according to Google….
Alphabet, the parent company of technology giant Google, is no longer promising that it will never use artificial intelligence (AI) for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools. The firm has rewritten the principles guiding its use of AI, dropping a section which ruled out uses that were “likely to cause harm”. In a…
Google’s Senior Vice President Hardware, Rick Osterloh, speaks during a launch event in San Francisco, October 4, 2017. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google is offering buyouts to employees in its “Platforms and Devices” unit ahead of expected cuts. That unit includes more than 25,000 full-time employees who work on Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Google Photos, Google…
