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Google's latest quarterly report provided further evidence that its internet empire is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup that's turning into another potential boon for the company.

The Pixel 10a is official, though details are limited. On Wednesday, Google posted a teaser video showing the mid-range phone dancing around colorful backgrounds. You can pre-order the Pixel 10a on February 18. Google hasn't yet revealed the phone's specs. In the short video, we can see a blue model that's virtually indistinguishable on the outside from the Pixel 9a.

Pinterest has decided to eliminate 118 jobs in the Bay Area. These include 102 jobs in San Francisco and 16 positions in Palo Alto. Google intends to cut 77 jobs, all of them in Sunnyvale. All of the job cuts are expected to be permanent, the EDD posts state. The Google layoffs are scheduled to occur over a period that begins on March 15 and ends on April 12, the official filings show.

"We're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features," Ron Eden, Google's principal for product management, said in a blog post.

"I'm a big believer in the free market. But we have to admit when the free market is not working. And it hasn't worked here,"

In practice, however, Google applies its 'Religious belief in personalized advertising' policy to reject advertisements because they contain religious content, regardless of how the audience is targeted," ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow writes, along with Nathan J. Moelker, senior associate counsel, and Mark Kelly, the organization's director of government affairs.

If you want to win in AI - and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way - you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a model that is unquestionably one of the best on the market. You need the nearly infinite resources required to continue to improve that mode and deploy it at massive scale.

The listings embedded in the search results included all of the property's details, along with links to request a tour or contact a buyer's agent. In an article published by Barron's last week, a Google spokesperson told the publication the program was a small experiment, and did not specify how long it would last. In an emailed statement, a HouseCanary spokesperson told HousingWire that any reports that the experiment had been shut down were untrue.

Google paid just €47.8m in tax against earned revenues of €22.6bn (£20.1bn) made across Europe, the Middle East and Africa which were funneled through its advertising sales business in Dublin. According to the Guardian, referencing company filings in Ireland, revenues at Google Ireland Limited rose 23% in 2015 to €22.6bn (a third of its global income) with an estimated $7bn (£5.6bn) coming from transactions with advertisers in the UK.

Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI 's chatbots, according to new court filings. The details of the settlements are still unknown. The parties notified a federal court in Florida that they had reached a "mediated settlement in principle to resolve all claims," and asked to pause the case to finalize the agreement. A spokesperson for Character.AI, Kathryn Kelly, declined to comment.

The company told staff in a December newsletter that employees eligible for PERM would hear from its outside lawyers in Q1, according to a copy of the memo seen by Business Insider. PERM allows employees to move from working on a visa to securing a green card. Tech companies commonly use it to transition staff from H-1 B status to a green card, which allows them to live and work permanently in the US.

Google has no plans to build a standardized API or universal licensing system for news content, the company's search chief said last week, pushing back on proposals from media advocates who see such arrangements as the industry's best path to AI-era revenue. "The short answer is no," Nick Fox, Google's SVP of knowledge and information, told me on the AI Inside podcast when asked whether Google would pursue a standardized licensing model.

It may sound like a trip through the produce aisle, but leading AI companies have something much more important on their lists. Meta, OpenAI, and Google have all relied on food-related names for their sometimes secretive plans for future AI models. Thinking with your stomach is nothing new for Silicon Valley, just look at the assortment of desserts Android assembled over the years before Google had its fill.

Alphabet, parent company of Google, has been one of the best-performing stocks of the year, up nearly 70%, and now has a market capitalization of $3.8 trillion. The company also happened to make what could turn out to be one of the most lucrative startup investments of all time, which could finally bear fruit next year. In 2015, Google invested around $900 million in SpaceX for a stake of around 7% in Elon Musk's space company, which was then valued at $12 billion.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems," started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype around AI into a massive industry event where labs come to recruit and investors come to find the next wave of AI startups.

Google plans to launch smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in 2026, after its previous high-profile attempt to enter the market ended in failure. The tech giant set expectations high in 2013 when it unveiled Google Glass, billed by some as the future of technology despite its odd appearance with a bulky screen positioned above the right eye. Google pulled the product in 2015 less than seven months after its UK release, but is now planning

The investigation will notably examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, or by granting itself privileged access to such content, thereby placing developers of rival AI models at a disadvantage, the commission said. It said it was concerned that Google may have used content from web publishers to generate AI-powered services on its search results pages without appropriate compensation to publishers and without offering them the possibility to refuse such use of their content.