Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.

The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty on charges that included conspiracy to ...
The Verge

Google says it will link to more sources in AI Mode

AI Mode will preface its list of sources with an AI-generated snippet about why they’re relevant. AI Mode will preface its list of sources with an AI-generated snippet about why they’re relevant. is a ...
Fox Business

Google CEO calls for national AI regulation to compete with China more effectively

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned Sunday that the U.S. must "get the balance right" on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation or risk falling behind China. In an interview on "Fox News Sunday" with ...
TechCrunch

One of Google’s biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you

A Google Search exec said that one of the company’s biggest opportunities in AI lies in its ability to get to know the user better and personalize its responses. The promise is AI that’s uniquely ...
Bleeping Computer

Google to flag Android apps with excessive battery use on the Play Store

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...
SiliconANGLE

Google expands its security ecosystem with new Unified Security Recommended program

Google Cloud today announced the launch of Google Unified Security Recommended, a new program designed to consolidate its expanding security ecosystem and provide enterprises with validated, ...
Ars Technica

Google says new cloud-based “Private AI Compute” is just as secure as local processing

Google’s current mission is to weave generative AI into as many products as it can, getting everyone accustomed to, and maybe even dependent on, working with confabulatory robots. That means it needs ...
Talking Points Memo

The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List

Confident successful Indian female HR recruitment manager holding resume in hands while having an interview in a modern office, looking and listening to job candidate. Friendly interview between HR ...
Wall Street Journal

Google’s Ruth Porat on the Employee Habit That Drives Her Nuts

When Ruth Porat was 6 years old, her physicist father would come home from his job at the Stanford Accelerator Laboratory and the two would tinker for hours in the garage, soldering radios and adding ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google to Let ‘Superfans’ Test In-Development Pixel Phones

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company’s next handset ahead of its public introduction. Google has invited members of its “Superfans” group to apply to ...
Search Engine Land

Google’s Robby Stein on AI Mode, GEO, and the future of Search

AI hasn’t replaced traditional search – it’s expanding it, according to Robby Stein, Google’s VP of Product for Search, speaking in a new interview on Lenny’s Podcast. Google is seeing more searches ...