Monday March 17, 2025 Google is upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini later this year. “When we launched Google Assistant in 2016, natural language processing and voice recognition technology unlocked a more natural way to get help from Google,” said the company in a blog post on Friday. “Nearly a decade later, we’re […]
Monday March 10, 2025 On Friday, the DOJ dropped its proposal that Google divest all its investments in AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, but it still wants the company to sell its web browser, Chrome. The DOJ and 38 state attorneys general are seeking a court order requiring Google to address what a […]
Monday March 3, 2025 Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has advice, and an offer, for federal workers laid off from the government’s 18F technology unit. “If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company,” posted Cuban on Bluesky. “It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix […]
Monday February 24, 2025 X introduced two AI-powered advertising tools for brands. Creation tool “Prefill with Grok” enable users to enter their website URL, and have Grok analyze the content and produce a ready-to-use ad. “Analyze Campaign with Grok” offers “a clear, AI-driven breakdown of how your ads are performing, empowering you to refine your […]
Interested in moderating a roundtable this fall? We need leaders comfortable with subject matter including media planning, buying, leveraging ai, cross-platform measurement and more. SUBMIT MY INTEREST Monday February 10, 2025 President Trump is dropping his lawsuit against Twitter, filed after he was banned from the platform over the storming of the […]
Monday February 3, 2025 Sweet 16: Apple reported record-breaking sales for 4Q24, the first full quarter its new iPhone 16 models were available. While iPhone sales were $69.1 billion, a tad down from $69.7 billion recorded the same period in 2023, CEO Tim Cook noted, “We’ve never seen a higher level of upgraders before. The […]
Monday January 27, 2025 Meta responded to Facebook and Instagram users who were upset to discover they were suddenly following accounts for President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other accounts for the new administration – and were unable to unfollow them. “People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook […]
Monday January 20, 2025 Well, that was quick. About 12 hours after TikTok went dark – “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” read a message from the company as a January 19 ban went into effect – service was being restored. The reversal came after then-president-elect Trump said he would issue an executive order to […]
Monday January 13, 2025 Mark Zuckerberg defended Meta’s elimination of its fact-checking program during a three-hour interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week. The company succumbed to “massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds” after the 2016 election and Brexit in the UK, said the Meta CEO, adding that he […]
Monday December 16, 2024 The CEOs of Alphabet and Apple received letters on Friday advising them that they must be prepared to remove TikTok from their US app stores on January 19. The bipartisan missives came from members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and referred to the decision by the […]
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