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A lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department pressed a Google executive on Wednesday about techniques the search and advertising giant used to push up online advertising prices in an allegedly unfair way. Testifying at a once-in-a-generation antitrust trial in Washington where the United States has accused Google of abusing its dominance of search and some advertising, Google Vice President of Product Management Adam Juda said the company uses a formula, which includes the quality of an ad, to decide who wins auctions used to place advertising on websites. Juda's testimony began on Tuesday and continued into Wednesday...

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Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more artificial intelligence tools capable of writing captions about photos that can also be altered by the technology. The injection of more artificial intelligence, or AI, into Google’s products marks another step toward bringing more of the technology into the mainstream – a push company executives signaled they were embarking upon during their annual developer’s conference five months ago. “Our focus is on making AI more helpful for everyone in a way that is bold and responsible,” Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of devices and services, said during Wednesday's event held in New York...

(Bloomberg) -- Google is looking to challenge Apple Inc. head-on with new Pixel phones that are more iPhone-like than ever before. Most Read from BloombergKey Taiwan Tech Firms Helping Huawei With China Chip PlantsTech Giants Buoy Stocks as Treasury Yields Slide: Markets WrapKevin McCarthy Ousted as US House Speaker by Republican DissidentsWall Street Fear Gauge Ratchets Up After Jobs Data: Markets WrapMcCarthy Ouster Means More Turmoil as Next Shutdown Fight LoomsThis year’s Pixel 8 and 8 Pro a...

Alphabet's Google on Wednesday launched Pixel 8 smartphones and a new smartwatch that integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) technology more deeply into the company's consumer gadgets. Google's flagship Pixel smartphone has a fraction of Apple's iPhone sales, but it is designed to show how Android products push the limits of available technology. Pixels are popular with photography enthusiasts and consumers who prefer the Android gadgets without modifications by other phone makers...

Google is bringing generative AI to its popular Google Photos app with the arrival of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones. The feature, first announced at the company's I/O developer conference in May, allows for more complicated edits -- like filling in gaps in a photo, repositioning the subject, and other edits to the foreground or background of a photo. At I/O, Google demonstrated how Magic Editor could easily combine various editing tasks. For example, it took an image of someone standin...

Google's newly announced Pixel 8 Pro will be the first hardware to run Google's generative AI models on-device, according to Rick Osterloh, SVP of devices and services at Google. Onstage at an event today, Osterloh said that the Pixel 8 Pro's custom-built Tensor G3 chip, which is designed to accelerate AI workloads, can run "distilled" versions of Google's text- and image-generating models to power a range of applications, like image editing. "We've worked closely with our research teams across...

Google announced new AI-powered features today for the new Pixel 8 series phones, such as Magic Editor, which enables background filling and subject repositioning, and Best Take, which combines multiple shots to create the best group photo. Magic Editor will let you tap or circle an object and then let it shift or resize the object. Magic Editor also uses generative AI to recreate the background when you shift the selected object. This feature also lets users make changes to the background using...

Alongside the launch of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones, Google is updating its Call Screen feature with clever new features that will allow users to better determine which calls they want to skip and those they want to take. At the company's Made By Google Android event this morning, Google showed off an impressive demo that showed how its AI could answer calls on users' behalf and then engage in more natural conversations with the caller to help determine if the call warranted your att...