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The Blogs: Google’s $ 32bn Wiz acquisition: Israel’s “Facebook moment”
The deal to buy leading cloud security firm Wiz for $ 32bn, announced this week by Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, is its biggest to date....
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technology
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technology
Google’s AI enters its ‘agentic era’
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books
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how-to
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The Blogs: Return of the God Hypothesis (REVIEW)
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beauty
Bigots are raging about Google’s new Christmas ad starring non-binary influencer Cyrus Veyssi
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photography
New iPhone 17 Leak Reveals a Horizontal Camera Bar Similar to Google’s Pixel 9 Range
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technology
Apple is reportedly working on ‘LLM Siri’ to compete with ChatGPT
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technology
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One of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safety
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learning
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apps
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apps
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Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents
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artificial intelligence
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot banned by a quarter of European firms
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artificial intelligence
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innovation
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learning
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