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US government considers historic break-up of Google in antitrust case

The U.S. Justice Department has put forth a sweeping proposal to force Google to sell off parts of its business, potentially leading to the first major corporate breakup in four decades and reshaping one of the world’s most valuable tech companies. The Department of Justice and a coalition of state attorneys general on Tuesday submitted […]

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A co-lead on Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has left for Google

One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has left for Google. Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post on X this evening that he’ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, to work on video generation and “world simulators.” “I had an amazing two

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Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search

Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well. It’s also rolling out AI-organized search results pages in the U.S. this week. The increasing prominence of AI in Google’s core

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Character.AI hires a YouTube exec as CPO, says it will raise money next year with new partners

Character.AI is starting a new chapter after its $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which involved CEO Noam Shazeer returning to the search giant. It hired Erin Teague as a chief product officer, a YouTube exec who was the global head of sports movies and shows product management. Teague, who has been working at Google

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