New Google Cloud generative AI training resources
Editor’s note: This blog has been updated since it originally published to reflect the total number of generative AI courses that have become available since the publish date. An AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning) career path can be a great specialty area within the cloud—and one of the most accessible! Because this area is constantly developing, most …
Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > The music industry is doing all it can to get rid of its YouTube ripping problem. The RIAA and BPI, for example, regularly send DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google, asking the company to remove sites from search results. Independent label “Because Music” has also joined in the action but …
Privacy and Data Collection | Google Fonts | Google Developers
What does using the Google Fonts Web API mean for the privacy of my users? The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data. The use of the Google Fonts Web API is unauthenticated and the Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies. Requests to the …
Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models
Google Cloud today announced a slew of new AI-powered features for its productivity tools, but the company also today launched a set of new APIs and tools for developers that are just as interesting — if not more so. In addition to making its large language models available to developers through an API, Google also …
Google Had an AI Chatbot Years Ago, Execs Shut It Down: Report
Ex-Google engineers developed a conversational AI chatbot years ago, per The Wall Street Journal. But Google execs thwarted their efforts to release it to the public due to safety concerns. Google is now racing to catch up with Microsoft’s AI and plans to release its AI chatbot this year. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for …
The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google
Hoover says that Andi avoids simply repeating text from search results. “It doesn’t make things up like other chatbots,” she says. People can decide for themselves whether or not that’s true. After collecting feedback from its users for the past year, the company’s chatbot will now sometimes admit when it’s not confident about an answer. …
Think from first principles before you Google (or ask ChatGPT)
Like most technologies, search engines are both good and bad at the same time. They’re good because they open up vast resources of information. Today, our ability to know things instantly would seem like magic to previous generations. At the same time, precisely because searching is so easy, we’ve become habitual for googling for each …
Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation
Google was originally set to phase out Chrome support for old Manifest v2 extensions in 2023, but that’s now being postponed. In 2021, Google announced its deprecation plans and last provided an update this September. On Friday, the company said that the “Manifest V2 deprecation timelines are under review and the experiments scheduled for early …
Google Analytics Alternatives
Free Universal Analytics (Google Analytics 3) is shutting down on July 1, 2023. Are you ready? Google Analytics has been synonymous with “web analytics” for nearly 20 years, but GA4 is a big departure from previous versions and represents a whole different tracking paradigm. Maybe GA4 is right for your site, but maybe it’s not! …