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With the massive fundraise, Anthropic will focus on making significant developments on Claude Next and increase spending to boost its AI model. A week after raising $1.25 billion from tech giant Amazon, OpenAI rival firm Anthropic has tapped Google and others to raise an additional $2 billion in fresh funding. Google had already picked up a 10% stake in Anthropic last year in 2022. Sources familiar with the matter stated that Google is planning to raise its stake further. The two-year-old...

Traffic on Google Maps has dropped by 40% over the last two years with the introduction of the Apple Switch as the likely reason behind this. Two years following Apple Inc‘s decision to replace Google Maps with its own app as the default service on iPhones, Google managed to recover only 40 percent of its previous mobile traffic on its mapping service. A Google executive disclosed these details during the antitrust trial involving Alphabet Inc. Michael Roszak, Google’s Vice President for...

With the new Google’s Bard extensions, users have control on deciding whom to give access to their data. These extensions can also work together and collaboratively. In the latest update, Google’s AI platform Bard has introduced a double-check feature along with the ability to connect the Bard chatbot with Google apps and services. This includes Google Docs, Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Maps, Google Flights, and hotels. Google will make these services available through new Bard extensions and...

Retool, a prominent software development company, has recently revealed that 27 of its cloud customers fell prey to a targeted SMS-based phishing attack. The breach has raised concerns about the security of cloud synchronization features, particularly Google Authenticator’s cloud sync. Retool Falls Prey to Targeted SMS Phishing Attack The Aug. 27 attack began with a deceptive SMS phishing campaign directed at Retool’s employees. The malicious individuals pretended to be IT...

AI21 Labs is planning to use the money raised for developing AI products that will compete with ChatGPT developer OpenAI and AI safety and research company Anthropic. AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based AI lab and product startup, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round that was led by such companies as Walden Catalyst Management LLC, Pitango VC, SCB10X Co Ltd, b2venture, Samsung Next, as well as Google LLC and NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA). The funding round has brought the company’s...

Google appears to be taking money from fraudsters and facilitating crypto scams. These are the findings from DeFiLlama researcher “0xngmi,” who reported that scammers are buying ads for proper crypto websites on Google, but… When users click on them, “they get sent to an ad network to track the click, but that network redirects to a scam site instead!” There’s a new crypto scam on google Scammers will buy an ad for a proper crypto website on google, with the proper URL Then...

CoinspeakerGoogle Adds New Capabilities to Its Generative AI-powered Search Engine The new upgrades currently undergoing initial testing promises to deliver more in-depth information for users exploring scientific theories, economic principles, historical events, or any other subject matter. Google Adds New Capabilities to Its Generative AI-powered Search Engine

CoinspeakerGoogle-backed AI Firm Anthropic Secures $100M Investment from SK Telecom As part of their partnership, Anthropic and SK Telecom will work together for building large language models (LLMs) for telcos. Google-backed AI Firm Anthropic Secures $100M Investment from SK Telecom

CoinspeakerGoogle Announces Open Beta for eSignature Feature in Google Docs and Drive Users will now be able to request for and place an eSignature on contracts within Google Docs and Google Drive. Google Announces Open Beta for eSignature Feature in Google Docs and Drive

CoinspeakerUniversal Music Group to Partner Google to License AI Vocal Track In the realm of music, the rise of AI-generated content has sparked a dynamic conversation about copyright, innovation, and the future of creative expression.  Universal Music Group to Partner Google to License AI Vocal Track