Tag GOOGL

The White House is hosting CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy, sparking a rush among companies to launch similar products they believe will change the nature of work. President Joe Biden has also used ChatGPT, a White House official told Reuters...

Bonus: You won’t have to pay for it...

Self-driving car pioneer Waymo announced Thursday that its robotaxis will be able to carry passengers through most of the Phoenix area for the first time. The company's cars will also start to pick up more volunteers for testing the autonomous vehicles traversing the more challenging conditions in San Francisco. The increased territory in the Phoenix area means Waymo's robotaxis will now pick up and drop off fare-paying passengers in an area spanning 180 square miles (466 square kilometers), doubling in size since late last year...

Amazon's impressive first-quarter revenue and the questions that remain about Amazon Web Services (AWS). How Visa and Mastercard beat Wall Street's expectations and provided insight into consumer spending...

The dangers of A.I. is a growing concern among the world’s most powerful people and policymakers. Worryingly, Geoffrey Hinton is "not optimistic" that there's anything that can be done...

Users can now sign into their accounts with ‘passkeys’ instead...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy, sparking a rush among companies to launch similar products they believe will change the nature of work. Millions of users have begun testing such tools, which supporters say can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, create legal briefs and debug software, leading to growing concern about how the technology could lead to privacy violations, skew employment decisions, and power scams and misinformation campaigns...

Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the CEOs of Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft, and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to talk about ways to mitigate risks of the new technology...

The executives leading the AI race that has transfixed the tech industry, including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, have been called to a meeting at the White House on Thursday for what a senior US official described as a “frank discussion” about their responsibilities to make sure their systems are safe. The meeting, which will be attended by vice-president Kamala Harris and other senior officials, comes as the administration of Joe Biden scrambles to develop a more concerted response to recent rapid advances in the technology. “Many of [the big tech companies] have spoken to their responsibilities, and part of what we want to do is make sure we have a conversation about how they’re going to fulfil those pledges,” the senior administration official said...