Google Cements AI Presence With Latest Move: Integrates AI Research Divisions Google Brain, DeepMind

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google DeepMind clubbed the AI research groups, the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind to accelerate its progress in AI significantly CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. Their collective accomplishments in AI span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence-to-sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training, and d Read More...

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Microsoft kicks Twitter in the teeth

Microsoft is dropping Twitter from its advertising platform next week, nearly two months after Twitter announced that it will begin charging a minimum of $42,000 per month to users of its API, which include enterprises and research institutions. With its $2.15 trillion market cap and roughly $100 billion cash on hand at the end of last year, Microsoft obviously has the money to pay Twitter what it wants, so the move appears to be a bit of a statement, even as Microsoft is declining to elaborate further about its decision. Specifically, what it told its customers today is that, “Starting on April 25, 2023, Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter,” and that “Digital Marketing Center (DMC) will no longer support Twitter starting on April 25, 2023.”