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Made by Google 2024: How to watch Google unveil the Pixel 9, a new foldable and more

Google’s been on a consumer hardware jag in August. On Tuesday, the company announced the long-awaited new Nest Thermostat, along with Google TV Streamer, which replaces the 11-year-old Chromecast line. Next Tuesday at Made by Google 2024, the software giant is refreshing the Pixel line with a slew of new smartphones. Previous years’ Made by […]

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This Week in AI: OpenAI’s talent retention woes

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, OpenAI lost another co-founder. John Schulman, who played a pivotal role in the development of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, has left the company for rival Anthropic. Schulman announced the news on X, saying that his decision stemmed from a desire to deepen

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Mechanical Orchard, led by ex-Pivotal CEO, scores $50 million round led by Alphabet’s GV

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that while 89% of large companies have a digital and AI transformation underway, they’ve only captured 31% of the expected revenue uplift and 25% of anticipated

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Google Assistant lives to automate another day

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Google Assistant’s fate has been an open question for more than a year now. Once a jewel in Google’s crown, the software was a key to both the company’s mobile and smart home strategies. Half a decade ago, Google was giving away Home Mini speakers in a bid to grow out its ecosystem. On Tuesday,

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Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9, Gemini, a new foldable and other things to expect from the event

Gadgets / Sasandara Dilmina

Google’s next big hardware event is set for August 13 at 10 a.m. PT. That’s roughly a two-month head start for the Made By Google event, which has traditionally occurred mid-fall. It also, notably, will find the company announcing its latest flagship, the Pixel 9, ahead of the iPhone 16. Apple’s latest is set for

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Chromecast is dead. Meet Google TV Streamer

Hardware / Sasandara Dilmina

Along with a long-awaited update to the Nest Learning Thermostat, Google on Tuesday unveiled its latest set-top streaming box. Google TV Streamer’s arrival marks the end of the Chromecast line. With more than a 100 million sold over an 11-year life, it was a good run. Along with a new, more straightforward name, the line

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Google loses massive antitrust case over search

Government & Policy / Sasandara Dilmina

Google has suffered a major court defeat in the U.S. that could alter the way it does business, should the decision stand. Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling in a case brought against Google by the Justice Department, said that Google had abused its monopoly power over

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Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup. In his previous stint, Shazeer spearheaded the team of researchers that built LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), a language model that was used for conversational AI tools. Character.AI co-founder Daniel

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Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

Google is hosting a version of its Cloud Next conference in Tokyo this week, and it’s putting the focus squarely on tweaking its databases for AI workloads (because at this point in 2024, AI is the only thing these major tech companies want to talk about). These include updates to its Spanner SQL database, which

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Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of Google Cloud’s effort to cozy up with promising early-stage AI startups, in hopes some of them will evolve into massive, compute-hungry business. “We want to

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