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AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?
- Agentic artificial intelligence, the notion of AI agents that can semiautonomously conduct a series of tasks without much human involvement, is gaining momentum.
- Despite worries that AI and big-data spending is getting out of hand, investments continued this week with xAI seeking to raise $6 billion, CoreWeave landing a big slug from Cisco, and Writer reeling in $200 million more.
- AI and big data were unsurprisingly the big topics at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Salt Lake City; next week, the earnings kahuna is Nvidia, the most valuable public company in the world.
- This week we saw the deployment of new services from Google and Red Hat, but AI experts are cautioning that agentic AI is still largely in its hype cycle.
- Advanced Micro Devices plans to cut 4% of its staff to double down on AI, while Cisco Systems is still struggling to restore revenue growth despite its early AI progress.
- The FBI has raided the home of the CEO of Polymarket as part of an investigation into allegations that it illegally allowed US citizens to participate in betting.
- The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into potential anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft's cloud practices, although it is unclear how the new presidential administration will handle the case.
- This week, data software companies including Snowflake, NetApp, and Elastic all reported their earnings.
- In terms of personnel announcements, OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman returned to the company, while AI developer Francois Chollet left Google to start his own company.
- There's also new industry leadership, as Bill Robbins takes on president of Menlo Security and Tony Alika Owens becomes CEO of lakehouse customer data platform Amperity.
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AI App Race Intensifies as Tech Giants Vie for Consumer Attention
- Google's Gemini iPhone app, a consumer AI app, has been rolled out globally, highlighting the intensified competition among tech giants to capture mainstream users seeking AI tools for everyday tasks on their phones.
- AI-powered mobile apps are reshaping user experiences with advanced features, such as Apple's iOS update introducing 'Apple Intelligence' and TikTok launching Symphony Creative Studios, an AI platform for video creation.
- These AI-powered apps are impacting commerce by automating processes, enabling personalized customer interactions, and providing businesses with targeted marketing tools and streamlined operations.
- The healthcare, media and entertainment, supply chain, legal tech, and finance sectors are benefiting from AI-powered mobile apps, offering personalized experiences, mental health support, inventory tracking, document management, fraud detection, and virtual consultations.
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Google’s latest Doodle celebrates 5,000 years of the kayak
- Google's latest Doodle celebrates 5,000 years of the kayak.
- The kayak was invented in the Arctic and has been in use for over 5,000 years.
- The Doodle coincides with Native American Heritage Month.
- The kayak has played a significant role in Indigenous cultures.
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YouTube has added a 'gifting' feature to its vertical streams, ramping up the competition for livestream e-commerce
- YouTube has launched a 'gifting' feature for its vertical livestreams, similar to TikTok.
- Creators can receive digital gifts that can be redeemed for one cent each.
- Livestream e-commerce is a lucrative market, with total US e-commerce sales exceeding $1 trillion in 2022.
- Google is offering a 50% bonus to eligible creators for received gifts on YouTube for the next three months.
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OpenAI vs Google: The Future of Search Through an AI Lens
- OpenAI has added search capabilities to its ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that was initially known for its proficiency in conversation and language understanding.
- The integration of search capabilities in ChatGPT suggests a potential shift in how we interact with search engines, moving towards a more interactive and personalized search experience.
- By combining language understanding with search capabilities, ChatGPT could enhance user experience, particularly in fields like academic research where context and synthesis of information are crucial.
- While ChatGPT's enhanced capabilities are promising, challenges remain in ensuring reliability, unbiased operation, and addressing regulatory and privacy concerns associated with expanding AI capabilities.
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Chegg Lays Off 319 Workers, Struggles Against AI and Google’s Search Evolution Chegg’s Layoffs Amid Financial Struggles
- Chegg, an online education company, has laid off 319 workers, or 21% of its workforce, as it faces deep challenges from generative AI tools and Google's search evolution.
- The company's Q3 report saw losses exceeding $212 million, marking a pattern of declining revenues over the past three years.
- Chegg CEO Nathan Schultz acknowledged that the layoffs and broader restructuring effort aim to cut costs and reshape the company's focus to save between $60 and $70 million in 2025.
- Two major factors eroding Chegg's business are advancements in AI and changes to Google's search platform. Chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT provide free and highly capable alternatives to Chegg's paid services, while Google's AI-powered search summaries offer direct answers and overviews without the need to visit other websites.
- Chegg has lost more than 500,000 subscribers since ChatGPT's launch in 2022, and revenue has declined for three consecutive years.
- Chegg is attempting to pivot toward a future that embraces AI rather than fights it. The company formed an "arena" to evaluate various AI models and is working to integrate AI technology into its broader learning platform.
- While this shift could open up new opportunities, Chegg's leadership acknowledges that the road to recovery will be difficult.
- Chegg's dramatic fall reflects both the broader slowdown in the edtech sector and the company's specific struggles to adapt to AI-driven competition.
- The rise of tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI-enhanced search platform has fundamentally reshaped how students access information and educational resources.
- Chegg's challenges highlight the disruptive impact of generative AI on traditional industries, particularly those reliant on subscription-based models.
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AlloyDB Omni supercharges performance: Faster transactions, analytics, and vector search
- AlloyDB Omni version 15.7.0 brings significant improvements to PostgreSQL workflows.
- Enhancements include faster performance, ultra-fast disk cache, enhanced columnar engine, and general availability of ScANN vector indexing.
- AlloyDB Omni is more than 2x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads.
- The columnar engine speeds up analytical queries up to 100x compared to standard PostgreSQL.
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What’s new with HPC and AI infrastructure at Google Cloud
- Google Cloud is continuously innovating its high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities with new technology developments and infrastructure, such as the upcoming generation of H-series VMs in early 2025. These new VMs will have improved scalability and native support to provision full, tightly-coupled HPC clusters on demand, offering superior performance, reliability, and security.
- Parallelstore is a fully-managed, scalable, high-performance storage solution based on next-generation DAOS technology, designed for HPC and AI workloads. It can provide up to six times greater read throughput performance compared to competitive Lustre scratch offerings. It is also great for applications requiring fast access to large datasets, such as analyzing massive genomic datasets for personalized medicine.
- A3 Ultra VMs with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs have significant improvements in performance over previous generations, offering non-blocking 3.2 Tbps of GPU-to-GPU traffic with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). They can scale to tens of thousands of GPUs in a dense, performance-optimized cluster for large AI and HPC workloads.
- Google Cloud has recently announced Trillium, our sixth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), available in preview. Compared with TPU v5e, Trillium has over 4x improved training performance, up to 3x increase in inference throughput, and 67% increase in energy efficiency.
- Cluster Toolkit provides open-source tools for deploying and managing HPC environments on Google Cloud. Secondary boot disk provides faster workload startups through container image caching, while Custom compute classes offer greater control over compute resource allocation and scaling.
- Visit Google Cloud at booth #1730 at Supercomputing 2024 in Atlanta, to learn more about HPC and AI infrastructure and quantum solutions. The booth will feature a Trillium TPU board, NVIDIA H200 GPU and ConnectX-7 NIC, hands-on labs, a full schedule of talks, a comfortable lounge, and plenty of great swag!
- Atommap, a company specializing in atomic-scale materials design, is using Google Cloud HPC features like H3 VMs and Parallelstore to accelerate research and development efforts. They have achieved significant success, including a reduced time-to-results and better scalability with optimized infrastructure costs.
- Google Cloud has launched the Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community, a new kind of community of practice for sharing and growing HPC, AI, and quantum computing expertise, innovation, and impact. The Community brings together thought leaders and experts from Google, its partners, and HPC, AI, and quantum computing organizations around the world.
- Google is leading the way for containerized workloads with GKE, which supports up to 65,000 nodes, offering major improvements in automating and simplifying the building of HPC and AI platforms. Kueue.sh is a powerful and innovative tool for job queueing on Kubernetes, with topology-aware scheduling, priority and fairness in queueing, multi-cluster support, and more.
- Google Cloud is committed to empowering researchers and engineers to tackle the world's most complex computational challenges through continuous innovation for HPC. There will be further enhancements to HPC VMs, Parallelstore, Cluster Toolkit, Slurm-gcp, and other HPC products and solutions.
- Google will also participate in several parts of SC24's technical program, including BoFs, User Groups, and Workshops. Googlers will participate in various technical sessions, such as Converged HPC and Cloud Computing in the Era of Generative AI, HPC & Cloud Convergence: drivers, triggers, and constraints, and more.
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Shift-left your cloud compliance auditing with Audit Manager
- Google Cloud announces the general availability of Audit Manager service.
- Audit Manager helps streamline the compliance auditing process for organizations.
- Features of Audit Manager include clear shared responsibility outlines, automated compliance assessments, audit-ready evidence generation, and actionable remediation guidance.
- Deutsche Börse Group partners with Google Cloud on automating cloud controls using Audit Manager.
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How cloud and AI are bringing scale to corporate climate mitigation and adaptation
- Cloud and AI technologies offer the potential to unlock climate change solutions that can be both transformational and global in scale.
- AI can process large volumes of data, optimize complex systems, and drive the development of new business models.
- Businesses are using AI-powered insights to help monitor their advance towards sustainability targets, building business resilience.
- AI is used to optimize operations and supply chains for energy and resource efficiency, as well as to cut costs.
- Cloud and AI allow organizations to reimagine their business models, explore new markets, and create innovative products and services that align with their sustainability goals.
- Developers need to take concrete steps towards reducing the carbon footprint and cost of their applications in the cloud.
- L'Oréal, for example, leverages Google Cloud's Carbon Footprint tool to track the gross carbon emissions associated with their cloud usage.
- Google takes its own carbon footprint very seriously and is committed to achieving net-zero emissions across all of its operations and value chain.
- Google Cloud is committed to helping organizations achieve their sustainability goals, deliver new ways to build resilience, reduce costs and unlock sustainable growth.
- This is an opportunity to drive tangible business results and create a more sustainable future for all by smarter use of data.
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Glimpse of Google: Post mortems
- Glimpse of Google is a blog series that offers insights into the inner workings of Google from an engineering standpoint.
- Postmortems at Google embody the blameless culture and focus on improvement, rather than blame.
- The postmortem process includes detailed analysis of what went wrong, root cause analysis, and identification of action items for system improvement.
- Postmortems promote collaboration and shared responsibility among engineers to strengthen systems and deliver exceptional user experiences.
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Google tests removing news articles from search in EU, but it’s already backfiring
- Google is testing the removal of news articles from search and Google News in EU countries.
- The test aims to understand the impact on traffic after not displaying articles from EU-based news publishers.
- However, news publishers discovered the test in a blog post, leading to legal issues in France.
- The Paris Commercial Court ordered Google to either scrap the test or pay €900,000 per day.
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Eric Schmidt says there's 'no evidence' AI scaling laws are stopping — but they will eventually
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says there's 'no evidence' artificial intelligence scaling laws are stopping as some in Silicon Valley worry about an AI slowdown.
- Schmidt believes that large language models (LLMs) are still scaling with an unprecedented ability, and there will be further improvements in the next five years.
- There is a debate among Silicon Valley leaders regarding the feasibility of developing increasingly advanced models, with recent reports suggesting that some companies are struggling to improve models at the same rate.
- OpenAI and Google have faced challenges in their efforts to develop more advanced models, but Schmidt argues that the scaling laws have not yet begun to stop.
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A lot of you are using really old phones, and we are equal parts surprised and happy
- A recent poll conducted by Android Authority revealed that a good majority of users are keeping their smartphones for a longer period of time.
- Top Android flagships offer longer software support and improved durability, reducing the need for users to upgrade to newer models.
- The poll showed a close split among respondents regarding the age of their current smartphones.
- Overall, there is a growing trend of users opting to stick with their older phones rather than investing in new flagship models.
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Want to keep making money on Google Opinion Rewards? You’ll need to accept this change
- Google Opinion Rewards is prompting users to consent to processing their location data in order to continue presenting location-based surveys.
- Google Maps is transitioning from server-based Location History to on-device Timeline for location data storage.
- This transition affects apps like Google Opinion Rewards, which now require user consent for location processing.
- Previously, Google Opinion Rewards used Location History to send users surveys based on their recent visits to local businesses.
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