Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media Corporation (PMC), which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe, and Artforum. While Penske’s suit is the first to target Google and its parent company Alphabet …
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Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue Google over its AI summaries. The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with …
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The Nano Banana image editing model has been a hit for Google, and presumably the reason that Gemini for iPhone is the top free app in the US App Store. As of Friday evening, Google Gemini is number 1 on Apple’s Top Free Apps chart for the US. ChatGPT is in the second position, with social app Threads rounding out …
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Worth the wait We’ve been waiting for a redesign for half a decade, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max doesn’t disappoint. You get an aluminum unibody chassis with durability and thermal benefits, plus, there’s an A19 Pro chipset under the hood. A square front-facing camera sensor and up to 8x optical-quality zoom round out the improvements. Pros Anti-reflective display with …
Read More »Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews Reuters Penske Media sues Google over AI search overviews Axios Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic BBC ‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model The Guardian AI search drives less than 1% of referrals, organic still dominates: Data Search Engine Land Source link
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Jason Hiner and Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. It feels like yesterday when I sat in a Brooklyn warehouse to watch Jimmy Fallon introduce the Google Pixel 10 series to the world. Since then, Apple has joined the fray with the new iPhone 17, and now I’ve got a few too many new handsets on …
Read More »California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom Politico Article | OpenAI joins Google, Meta in backing California’s online age-checking bill POLITICO Pro California’s age verification bill for app stores and operating systems takes another step forward StartupNews.fyi App Stores Face Age Verification Task in Cleared California Bill Bloomberg Law News Google, Meta back California’s Digital Age Assurance Act Pluribus News …
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Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Apple’s big iPhone event this week created a lot of buzz. And not just because of the iPhone 17 Pro or …
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These bulletins detail the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in that month’s security release, with issues ranging from low to critical in severity. Given …
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Google’s latest #BestPhonesForever episode, “Generational Gap,” poked fun at Apple’s lack of AI intelligence for its iPhone 17 series. The iPhone in the episodes was trying to teach chickens to sing and turtles to run a bank, but Google Pixel informed them that those videos were made by Gemini. Promises made by Apple Intelligence still haven’t fully arrived for users, …
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