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In one case, according to Starbuck, Google's AI claimed he had been a person of interest in a murder case when he was just two years old. For each source, Google's AI provides a URL, giving the impression that these are real news articles with headlines like, Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations,' he said. The only way to discover that these URLs are fake is to click on them.

The way we download apps onto our phones could be about to change after a ruling from the UK's competition regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated the two tech giants as having "strategic market status" - effectively saying they have a lot of power over mobile platforms. This means Apple and Google may have to make changes, after the CMA said they "may be limiting innovation and competition".

The new change, which Cloudflare calls its Content Signals Policy, happened after publishers and other companies that depend on web traffic have cried foul over Google's AI Overviews and similar AI answer engines, saying they are sharply cutting those companies' path to revenue because they don't send traffic back to the source of the information. There have been lawsuits, efforts to kick-start new marketplaces to ensure compensation, and more-

"Having taken into account the feedback received following our proposed decision, we have today designated Google's search services with strategic market status," according to the authority.

The breakup that wasn't supposed to be possible: Publicly, Google has argued that breaking up its ad tech stack would be all but impossible. Privately, it's been mapping out how to do exactly that. Internal documents during the trial revealed that for years, Google has been pressure-testing how a separation might work. "Project Sunday", launched in 2020 and revisited in 2021, explored how to split key components of its ad tech stack within its own infrastructure.

Google upgraded the Try On feature to now support shoes, in addition to other forms of clothing. Plus, Try on will soon also work in Australia, Canada and Japan, Google announced. Google wrote, "Try on's state-of-the-art AI accurately perceives shapes and depths, preserving those subtleties when showing you what something would look like on you. Finally, you can answer the age-old question: "Can I pull off these shoes?."

Google told employees who want health benefits that they must allow a third-party AI healthcare tool to access their data, a move that has rankled some staff members. If they decline it, they will not receive health coverage. The company announced this month that US-based employees who wish to sign up for health benefits through its parent company Alphabet in the coming enrollment period must grant access to AI-powered tools provided by Nayya, which offers personalized benefits recommendations, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider.

There's been a lot of discussion lately about how to look at OpenAI, whose outsized ambitions have been on display, from its blockbuster deals with chipmakers to its AI-powered social networking app to its new products announced this week. Here's what this tells me: It's a juggernaut on a collision course with its nemesis, Google. This may not be today's headline, but Google is OpenAI's biggest potential long-term threat, and some of OpenAI's strategic moves seem to address that reality.

On Monday, Google security engineering managers Jason Parsons and Zak Bennett said in a blog post that the new program, an extension of the tech giant's existing Abuse Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP), will incentivize researchers and bug bounty hunters to focus on "high-impact abuse issues and security vulnerabilities" in Google products and services.

"Providing "publishers with these detailed insights, I think, is a good idea," Berntson said Tuesday.

Google is making the gradient "G" its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new logo first began to surface across the Google app on Android and iOS in May, but soon, the design will begin to appear across all of the company's platforms, marking Google's first big logo change in 10 years. Google separated the red, yellow, green, and blue in the colorful "G" logo it introduced in 2015.

With Google's latest feature, you can now ensure Cyclingnews is front and centre when searching for the latest news from the world of cycling. The search engine recently released a 'Preferred Sources' feature, which allows users in the United States and India to optimise their results in Google's Top Stories feature. With the rise of attention-grabbing headlines and unverified information online, it's important to have your favourite, tried-and-tested publications at your fingertips.

As this co-dependence became outwardly obvious, another aspect of their relationship - this one more formal - was being negotiated in private. Google didn't just need Reddit to fill out its search product. It needed Reddit to train its AI models and to provide those models with fresh material to retrieve, summarize, and synthesize once they were deployed in products.