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According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the company's AI war woes (spoiler: it's losing) build, CNBC reports that Google has officially commanded its employees to start sharing desks.

Google Instructs Workers to Share Desks to Cut Costs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The tech giant may have denied using an AI, but it appears that the HR departments of many companies are willing to use AI in future lay off decisions.

Google Denies Using AI to Pick Which Employees to Fire

By Frank Landymore

Google may have just shown its hand in the AI arms race after one of its head honchos admitted that the company rushed its rollout.

Google Chairman Admits It’s Pushing AI to Market Before It’s “Really Ready”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is warning netizens to watch out for AI-generated content regarding "health, civic, or financial information." So, you know, the important things.

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google now has a ten percent stake in Anthropic, the company behind a powerful AI chatbot called Claude. The AI arms race marches on.

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As spotted by Reuters, Google's upcomign AI chatbot Bard is already spewing misinformation — right in its own promotional screenshots.

Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

Google is officially working on a ChatGPT competitor dubbed "Bard," according to a blog post published today by CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google Officially Announces ChatGPT Competitor Called “Bard”

By Victor Tangermann

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

By Victor Tangermann

Dubious online marketers at the notorious SEO forum BlackHatWorld see CNET's use of AI as a sign of Google opening the floodgates to AI written content.

SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

DeepMind's latest artificial intelligence called DeepNash has beaten a human player at a game of Stratego, a strategic war game.

Google Teaches AI to Play Stratego and It Becomes One of the World’s Top-Rated Players

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Google Deepmind and the University of Oxford have concluded that it is now "likely" superintelligent AI will be the end of humanity.

Google and Oxford Scientists Publish Paper Claiming AI Will “Likely” Annihilate Humankind

By Victor Tangermann

Google is embroiled in a lawsuit that alleges its private browsing mode isn't very private, a sentiment apparently shared by the jokes of Google employees.

Google Engineers Joked About How Incognito Mode Isn’t Very Incognito

By Frank Landymore

Google's new Imagen Video AI, which can generate video from text, is up and running — but its gross content problem means we can't use it.

Google Not Releasing New Video-Generating AI Because of Small Issue With Gore, Porn and Racism

By Noor Al-Sibai

DreamFusion, Google's new text-to-3D-image generator, is here — and we have to admit, it's impressive. Big fans of the ghost eating the hamburger prompt.

Google Creates AI That Turns Text Into 3D Objects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's crackdown continues, and according to internal audio obtained by CNBC, the tension between Googlers and their CEO, Sundar Pichai, is growing.

Google CEO Incredulous at Employees Mad About Loss of Perks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report warns that China could soon be able to rule over the US economy and military using cutting edge tech.

Former Google CEO Issues Dire Warning About China

By Victor Tangermann

Google accidentally handed a self-described hacker and BAYC-creating Yuga Labs security engineer nearly $250,000. Lucky for them, he wasnts to give it back.

Google Accidentally Sends Bored Ape Engineer $250,000

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can create short videos from a single image frame with its new AI, Transframer.

Google Scientists Create AI That Can Generate Videos From One Frame

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine is saying that he never set out to convince anyone else that LaMDA, the language modeling system, is sentient.

Fired Engineer Says He Begged Google to Test Whether Experimental AI Was Sentient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.

Google Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google experienced a major outage the same day an explosion occured at one of its major data centers, but didn't comment on whether the events were related.

Mysterious Explosion At Google Injures Workers Hours Before Major Outage

By Frank Landymore

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users discovered a genuinely puzzling bug that caused the browser-based Google Docs to crash when confronted with repeated instances of the same word.

User Discovers That Google Docs Crashes When You Type a Specific Phrase

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup called NextSense is working on a pair of earbuds that can record the electrical signals of the brain to study sleeping and mental conditions.

Google Spinoff Working on Earbuds That Spy on Your Brain Signals

By Victor Tangermann

Alphabet Inc decided to temporarily disable live traffic data on Google Maps in Ukraine due to the danger it posed on civilians and troops.

Google Disables Maps in Ukraine After It Revealed Troop Movements

By Tony Ho Tran

There's an extremely extremely disturbing site where users goad each other to commit suicide — and Google won't take it out of its search results.

Google Refuses to Pull Website Responsible for Scores of Suicides

By Noor Al-Sibai

A game designer says someone hacked into her Google Pixel 5a after sending it off to Google for a repair. They looked for nudes and deleted security alerts.

Woman Says Hackers Searched Her Phone for Nudes After Sending to Google for Repair

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google is about to launch a "wildfire" layer on Google Maps that shows whether the surrounding area is currently burning.

Google Maps Now Lets You Know if Your Route Is on Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.

Watch a Raven Attack a Google Coffee Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

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Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A Scottish conservation group claims Google Maps has been suggesting “potentially fatal” routes up mountains — and even directly over cliffs.

Google Maps Is Telling People to Walk Off a Cliff, Critics Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Google's search engine misidentified an engineer's likeness as belong to a serial killer, who happens to have the same name.

Google Algorithm Accuses Random Guy of Being a Serial Killer

By Victor Tangermann

Google is now debuting a new video chat system they’re calling “Project Starline.” It's a 3-D holographic video chat. Here's how it works.

Google Debuts Dystopic 3D Prison-Style Video Chat: Project Starline

By Foster Kamer

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.

Google’s DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

By Dan Robitzski

Google and Alphabet are under fire from their own investors over weak whistleblower protection and poor human rights enforcement.

Google Investors Condemn Company for Punishing Whistleblowers

By Dan Robitzski

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

After irate users tanked Robinhood's rating on Google's app store, Google stepped in to delete the onslaught of one-star feedback.

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Robinhood Reviews

By Dan Robitzski

Robinhood's rating on Google's app store is once again in the gutter, and this time Google says the stock trading company is on its own.

Robinhood Is Down to 1/5 Stars on Google Play

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind AI researchers broke the record for predicting how proteins will assemble. Scientists in the field remain unimpressed.

Scientists Unimpressed by Google’s Protein Folding Algorithm

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

By Dan Robitzski

A group of eagle-eyed Reddit users have already discovered the location of the mysterious ten to 12 foot monolith on Google Earth.

Mysterious Monolith Has Been There For Years, According to Google Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Google's DeepMind AI team built an algorithm called AlphaFold 2 that can solved the protein folding problem with better accuracy than any other team.

Google AI Solves Longstanding, Near-Impossible Biology Problem

By Dan Robitzski

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

At Huawei's request, the Chinese government plans to launch a new antitrust probe into Google over its Android operating system's market dominance.

China Plans to Launch an Antitrust Probe Into Google

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers say that public health officials should be able to identify COVID outbreaks, Bloomberg reports, by examining Google searches.

You Can Track COVID Outbreaks by Google Searches, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

Google is investing heavily in new kinds of wearable technology, including high-tech tattoos that turn your body into a touchpad.

Google Is Working on Tattoos That Turn Your Body Into a Touchpad

By Dan Robitzski