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Samsung’s AI features on the Galaxy S24 in China reportedly ditch Google for Baidu – Engadget

Posted: January 27, 2024 at 3:52 am

The Samsung Galaxy S24 isnt taking Googles Gemini AI with it to China. CNBC reported Friday that the Chinese version of the flagship phone uses Baidus Ernie chatbot to power the phones AI-powered features. Ernie arrived last August after reportedly receiving Chinese government approval.

Now featuring Ernies understanding and generation capabilities, the upgraded Samsung Note Assistant can translate content and also summarize lengthy content into clear, intelligently organized formats at the click of a button, streamlining the organization of extensive text, Baidu and Samsung told CNBC in a joint statement.

Samsungs description of the Galaxy S24 series on its Chinese website advertises many of the same Google-powered features it debuted last week in its San Jose, CA, launch event. These include a version of Circle to Search, real-time call translation, a transcription helper and a photo assistant. The Chinese Galaxy S24 product pages dont have any references to Google, which has limited operations in the country.

A recent report suggests Apple recently ended Samsungs 14-year run as the global smartphone shipment leader. In addition, IDC published data this week suggesting the iPhone maker claimed the top spot in the Chinese market (with a 17.3-percent market share) for the first time in 2023. Samsung didnt make the top five.

Engadget has tried the Galaxy S24 series, including the standard, Plus and Ultra variants. Samsungs 2024 flagship phone lineup launches in the US on January 31.

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Google Chrome is getting AI features for organizing tabs and custom themes – The Verge

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Googles Chrome browser is leaning into AI in a big way. Rather than just shove a Bard sidebar into the browser, Google is rolling out a couple of features that tap into its models in order to hopefully make your browser a little more pleasant to use. Theyre launching today in an experimental mode (you can go to settings and turn on Experimental AI to get them), and Google says theyre just the beginning of the AI browser takeover.

Chromes new Tab Organizer feature is the most compelling: you can right-click on a Chrome tab and select organize similar tabs, and Chrome will attempt to create a tab group filled with similar stuff. If youre shopping for something, deep diving some esoteric subject, or just opening all your news reading tabs at once, Chrome will try to keep all that stuff together. Chromes tab groups are an underrated feature in general theyre a helpful way to keep your stuff in order, but they do take some work to set up. This just makes it all automatic.

The Chrome theme store is also getting an AI upgrade: youll be able to pick an image, a style, a color, and a few other things, and Chrome will automatically generate a browser theme to match. Google says its using the same text-to-image model that powers Androids generative wallpapers, which, in my experience, are sometimes bizarre but mostly very cool.

The third new AI feature in Chrome, which is coming next month, is also a good hint of whats to come for the browser. Google is adding its Help me write feature to every site on the web; you just right-click on any text box anywhere, select the feature, and Googles AI will ask you what you want to write and then generate a first draft for you. Google suggests you might use Help me write to write reviews and emails or RSVP to parties.

That kind of web-wide AI integration is why Chrome could be such a powerful place for Google to integrate its Gemini model, the Bard assistant, and the rest of its nascent AI tools. Googles search engine is already like a layer on top of the internet; the company obviously wants its AI to work the same way to help you not just find things but also interact with and create more things. Were already seeing this show up in features like Chromes article summarization, and were going to see more of it soon.

If anything, Googles late to the party here. Microsoft has been bundling similar AI features into Edge for the last year, and smaller players like Arc and Opera are doing their own AI integrations as well. Chatbots may be the hot new AI app right now, but browsers are a place where developers can integrate and access practically everything.

Googles blog post announcing the new Chrome features says theres more to come, including plans to integrate the new Gemini model to help you browse even easier and faster. There may not be a Bard sidebar yet, but dont be surprised to see AI in every tab before long.

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Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and others partner with US government on AI research program – Yahoo Finance

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Google just announced five big updates for the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro – Digital Trends

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Google Chrome Is Finally Native on ARM Windows PCs – How-To Geek

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The transition to ARM CPUs on the Windows side of the pond has not been as successful as Apple's own transition. While Apple managed to get things running well from the get go, partly thanks to the performance of the compnany's Rosetta 2 compatibility later, Windows has struggled. Many Windows apps are still x86 only, and Microsoft's solution to translate x86 instructions to ARM doesn't work as well as Rosetta 2. Now, though, Chrome is making it to ARM Windows computers at long last.

Google Chrome has quietly gone ARM-native on Windows, as Canary builds for Chrome have popped up in a previously-unseen win_arm64 flavor. That means that if you have a Windows ARM PC, like the 5G Surface Pro 9, you can now install Chrome on it if you're willing to play around with the canary-grade builds. The open-source Chromium browser codebase that Chrome is based on has worked on ARM Windows for a while, and the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge has been native on ARM Windows for years, but not regular Google Chrome.

Chrome was a significant holdout to ARM Windows until now, and the browser had already gone ARM-native on Mac, so it was really just a matter of time before it happened on Windows as well. Qualcomm said that 2024 would finally be the year that Windows laptops will be worth buying, and between this and the launch of Qualcomm's own Snapdragon X range of laptop chips, it's certainly looking like that might just become true.

It's worth reiterating that ARM-native Windows Chrome is, at the moment, only available in the Canary branch. That's on version 123 right now, which is scheduled to land for Stable users on March 19th, so in about two months time, we should see a stable version of Chrome land for Windows stable users. In the meantime, you can play around with the Canary version. Just be mindful that it's unstable more often than not, and that you should expect lots of crashes and bugsespecially so given that it's the first build publicly released for a brand new platform.

If you want to check out the new Chrome build, it's now available on the Chrome download website. Just be mindful of the warning, or otherwise, wait a couple of months just to be sure.

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More Google DeepMind Staff Depart to Launch an AI Startup – The Information

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Three Google researchers who helped develop artificial intelligence that generates images and music recently left the company to launch their own AI startup called Uncharted Labs, according to two people with direct knowledge of their plans and a securities filing.

Its the latest example of top researchers who faced bureaucratic delays in launching their AI products at Google and decided to capitalize on venture investors enthusiasm for new companies in the field.

The New York-based founders have raised $8.5 million out of a $10 million target, according to the filing, and they have met with potential investors including Andreessen Horowitz in recent months, according to one of the people.

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Buyers Can’t Test Privacy Sandbox APIs in Google’s Ad Platform DV360 – Adweek

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Despite efforts to push industry adoption of cookie alternative proposals in Privacy Sandbox, Googles demand-side platform, Display & Video 360, has not offered its clients any easy way to test Privacy Sandbox, two buyers told Adweek.

Were really wanting to test, but theres no opportunity, said one media buyer, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive industry relations.

Both buyers said there was no user interface to test Privacy Sandbox proposals directly, and Google representatives had not given them definitive answers about when a UI for testing on DV360 would develop. DV360 is run as a separate business and by separate teams from Google Chrome and Privacy Sandbox.

Google has promised to deprecate cookies by the end of this year, a process it started for 1% of Chrome users at the beginning of January. Whether Google can complete its cookie deprecation plan on schedule and offer its Privacy Sandbox solutions widely partly depends on approval from the U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority later this year.

The CMA said in April 2023 that it is keen to encourage firms to test the Privacy Sandbox tools so that we can assess wider market impacts.

Last year, Google announced that it was offering a limited number of grants to supply-side platforms and DSPs to test Privacy Sandbox. As one of the largest DSPs, DV360 has a role to play in this testing process.

Google said it is not offering scaled testing for the buy-side in its ads platform, adding that by testing Sandbox application-programming interfaces on global slices of traffic instead, it can generate learnings more applicable to its whole customer base. Advertising providers and developers, however, can use the APIs in their products and services.

Buyers dont need to take direct action to test within Google ad platforms, but they can take recommended steps to prepare for third-party cookie deprecation and help inform our learnings, said a spokesperson.

But this rankles some buyers, who want the opportunity and visibility to be able to test the old and new technologies.

The fact that other ad-tech firms are testing Privacy Sandbox means that the buy side can still test even if DV360 is not making it easy.

But its a discouraging sign for the efficacy of Privacy Sandbox that DV360 is making it hard to test the technology of its parent company, said Robert Webster, global vice president of strategy at CvE, whose brand clients are working to test Privacy Sandbox with Adform.

It is bad [that] Googles own cant test, Webster said. Privacy Sandbox is just a smokescreen; a subpar tool for other companies to use.

To be fair, the collection of solutions in Privacy Sandbox, to some extent, represents a new paradigm for how digital advertising works, especially the Protected Audience API, where ad auctions happen on a browser and not the ad server.

DSP RTB House is deploying over 60 employees to test Privacy Sandbox, Digiday reported. Reflecting the large technical lift required for ad-tech firms to test Privacy Sandbox, Googles testing grants to SSPs and DSPs were as large as $5 million, Digiday reported separately.

Another major DSP, The Trade Desk, says it will test Privacy Sandbox, although CEO Jeff Green called the suite of tools not innovative.

This article was updated to clarify that Google offered grants to SSPs and DSPs.

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I went hands-on with Google’s Pixel 8 in Mint, and it’s the perfect shade of green – ZDNet

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How to access Google’s Circle to Search smartness on any Android phone today – Computerworld

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Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck – VICE

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