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Microsoft CEO appears in Google antitrust trial |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday and became the highest-profile witness so far in the government's push to prove Google maintains an illegal monopoly in search. |
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Nadella testified in a packed courtroom that Google has made it difficult even for Microsoft — a company valued at $2.4 billion — to compete in the search engine market, according to multiple reports. Nadella said Google's deals to be the default search engine across web browsers was a key limiting factor to competition from other tech companies. He also argued that Google will be able to use its size to dominate the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) space, according to reports of his Monday testimony. Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI and incorporated the popular ChatGPT tools into Microsoft products, and Google have been locked in an AI arms race.
"Despite my enthusiasm that there is a new angle with AI, I worry a lot that this vicious cycle that I'm trapped in could get even more vicious," Nadella said, according to The New York Times.
Adam Severt, a lawyer for the Department of Justice, asked Nadella about Google's billion-dollar deal to be the default search engine on Apple devices, The Verge reported. The goverment has focused on Google's deals with Apple and other companies to be their default search engine — especially on mobile devices — as it attempts to prove Google maintains an illegal monopoly in the search market. Severt asked Nadella what it would mean if Microsoft were to have the same deal, The Verge reported. "It would be a game changer," Nadella reportedly said. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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Zelda Williams, the daughter of late actor and comedian Robin Williams, is speaking out against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate her father's voice, calling it "disturbing." Williams wrote a social media post weighing in on AI amid the ongoing actors strike. The Hollywood union, SAG-AFTRA, has voiced concerns surrounding AI usage. "I am not an impartial voice in SAG's fight against AI. I've witnessed for … |
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| Katalin Karikó, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines, says she was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area. "If you know about 10 years ago, I was here in October because I was kicked out from UPenn, was forced to retire," Karikó told the Nobel Prize organization in an interview Monday. Karikó and Drew Weissman both won the Nobel Prize in … |
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Elon Musk came under fire Monday for mocking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated requests for foreign aid as his country seeks to fend off the invasion from Russia. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk posted a meme of Zelensky’s face photoshopped onto an image of a person with their veins popped, accompanied by the text, “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked … |
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TikTok tests ad-free subscription option |
TikTok is testing out a paid subscription tier that would allow users to avoid most ads on the video-sharing app, TechCrunch reported. |
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Apple addresses overheating issue on iPhone 15s |
Apple said a bug in iOS 17 and recent updates to third-party apps, like Instagram and Uber, have been causing new iPhones to overheat, Forbes reported. |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The Senate Judiciary intellectual property subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine the SHOP Safe Act, which aims to mitigate the sale of counterfeit goods online, on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
- The Center for Democracy & Technology will co-host an event with William & Mary Law and the nonprofit research organization Data & Society about the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: One Year Later" on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
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Sam Bankman-Fried must now convince a jury that the former crypto king was not a crook |
NEW YORK (AP) — For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next J.P. Morgan. Now, he has to convince a jury that he wasn’t, in reality, the next Bernie Madoff. The trial of Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency brokerage FTX, … |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) warned that a move to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) from the House "will not be tolerated" by GOP voters. … Read more |
| The civil fraud trial into former President Trump’s business dealings that could jeopardize control over some of his most famed properties has … Read more |
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