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President Trump says he’ll impose retaliatory tariffs for digital taxes, fines, practices, and policies on Apple, other American tech firms
- President Trump announced he would impose tariffs on nations that apply digital service taxes to Apple and other American tech firms.
- The memo directs the U.S. Trade Representative’s office to renew digital service taxes investigations and investigate any additional countries that use a digital tax to discriminate against U.S. companies.
- Digital service taxes have been a source of trade disputes for years, with several countries imposing them on U.S. tech giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
- President Trump seeks to combat these taxes and prevent foreign governments from appropriating America’s tax base for their own benefit.
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How to Compare Prices for Online Shopping Like a Pro
- Use price comparison extensions like Honey, CamelCamelCamel, and Capital One Shopping
- Take advantage of Amazon, Temu, and Google Shopping for comparing prices
- Check for discount codes and cashback deals before making a purchase
- Consider waiting for major sales events like Black Friday and Prime Day
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AI search engine startup Genspark reportedly raises $100M at $530M valuation
- AI search engine startup Genspark reportedly raised $100 million in funding.
- The funding round was led by a group of U.S. and Singapore-based investors.
- Genspark's valuation now stands at $530 million, more than twice its previous worth.
- Genspark's search engine utilizes large language models and offers specialized search features.
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Google may be about to face some actual consequences for promoting its own stuff
- EU regulators want to see Google Search stop prioritizing Google services over those offered by third parties.
- The EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) may result in Google being formally charged for violating anti-competition rules.
- Google Search abandoned its attempt to remove rich hotel booking options from its results.
- The EU has been investigating Google Search's favoritism towards its own solutions over third-party sites.
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Google’s New AI “Co-Scientist” Aims to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
- Google has developed a new AI system to act as a 'co-scientist' and accelerate scientific discoveries by aiding human researchers.
- The AI assistant can generate hypotheses, outline experiment plans, and synthesize existing literature in collaboration with scientists.
- The system, named as an AI co-scientist, is built on Google's advanced AI models like Gemini 2.0.
- It does not just summarize facts but aims to propose new hypotheses based on evidence, helping to generate original knowledge.
- Google focuses on science applications for AI, following successes like AlphaFold, which solved the protein folding puzzle using AI.
- The AI co-scientist comprises specialized AI programs that work together in steps resembling the scientific method.
- Human scientists remain involved throughout the process, providing feedback and adjusting parameters as needed.
- Google's AI system is designed to be collaborative, allowing scientists to insert their own ideas during the AI's cycle.
- By outsourcing tasks like literature reviews and brainstorming to the AI co-scientist, researchers aim to speed up discovery and address grand challenges in science and medicine.
- The AI system showed promising results in trials related to liver fibrosis and antibiotic resistance, indicating its potential to learn, refine solutions, and connect insights autonomously.
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Report: European Commission Finds Google’s Search Result Changes Insufficient
- The European Commission is set to charge Google with violating EU rules.
- Changes made by Google to its search results were deemed insufficient by the commission and Google's rivals.
- The charges allege that Google violated the EU's Digital Markets Act by favoring its own vertical search engines and discriminating against third-party services.
- The regulator could fine Google up to 10% of its global annual revenue if found guilty.
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Google Contacts app looks a little different now, here’s what changed
- Google has rolled out a few changes to the Contacts app.
- The update adds a card that displays the number of contacts in your Google Account and the last sync status.
- A new option has been added to access sync settings.
- The update is available in version 4.49 of the Google Contacts app.
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Feb 21, 2025: Development tools that have recently added new AI capabilities
- OpenAI has expanded its AI agent, Operator, to Pro users across several countries, making web-based tasks easier.
- Visual Studio now supports code referencing for GitHub Copilot completions to avoid licensing issues.
- Microsoft introduces Muse, a generative AI model for game developers that can understand environments.
- Anaconda launches Lumen AI, an open-source tool enabling natural language data exploration and visualization.
- Sonar acquires AutoCodeRover to enhance code quality solutions with AI technology for issue remediation.
- DeepSeek plans to open source more AI models and repositories to drive community-driven innovation.
- Stytch introduces Connected Apps for developers to connect AI agents and third-party apps to their applications securely.
- Boomi launches a new API management solution to help organizations control API sprawl efficiently.
- Securiti partners with Databricks to integrate Mosaic AI and Delta tables into the Gencore AI platform for secure AI development.
- Innovation in AI capabilities continues to evolve, providing companies with advanced tools for development and data management.
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Cheaper YouTube Premium Lite plan may be coming soon, but it has ads
- Google is testing a new Lite version of YouTube Premium in certain markets.
- The YouTube Premium Lite plan offers limited ads and costs less than half the price of a regular Premium subscription.
- It was first canceled last year but is being reintroduced now in Australia, Germany, and Thailand.
- The plan aims to provide a cheaper alternative to YouTube Premium while still offering some benefits to users.
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Google’s cheaper YouTube Premium Lite subscription will drop Music
- Google is testing a cheaper YouTube subscription without YouTube Music.
- The new plan, called YouTube Premium Lite, is being tested in select international markets.
- YouTube Premium Lite offers ad-free YouTube, but may drop features such as background playback and offline downloads.
- The subscription cost could be around $7-$8 in the US.
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8 steps to ensuring a smooth Spanner go-live
- Design, develop, test, and optimize your Spanner schema and transactions.
- Choose suitable deployments, considering availability, performance, and geographical proximity.
- Implement a backup and disaster recovery strategy to protect critical data.
- Stay secure by utilizing Spanner's security features and carefully defining access controls.
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Optimizing image generation pipelines on Google Cloud: A practical guide
- Generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and Flux empower creators with image generation capabilities, but optimizing pipelines for cost and latency is crucial.
- Google Cloud suggests three strategies for efficient image generation: a comprehensive optimization approach, hardware optimization, and inference code optimization.
- Hardware optimization involves maximizing GPU resource utilization using strategies like multi-instance GPUs, GPU time-sharing, and NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS).
- Inference code optimization includes using PyTorch's JIT compilation, enabling Flash Attention, and minimizing data transfers between GPU and CPU for reduced latency.
- Inference pipeline optimization involves streamlining workflows by employing multi-threaded queue-based approaches for efficient task scheduling and execution.
- Maintaining tensors on the same GPU throughout the process can reduce CPU-to-GPU data transfer overhead and enhance efficiency in image generation pipelines.
- Optimizing image-generation pipelines through hardware, code, and pipeline strategies can lead to significant cost savings without compromising image quality.
- Google Cloud Consulting supports customers in optimizing image generation pipelines to enhance AI initiatives and improve user experiences.
- Special thanks to Akhil Sakarwal, Ashish Tendulkar, Abhijat Gupta, and Suraj Kanojia for their support and guidance during the experimentation phase.
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Introducing Cloud DNS public IP health checks, for more resilient multicloud deployments
- Cloud DNS introduces public IP health checks for resilient multicloud deployments.
- Organizations using multiple clouds face challenges in managing application traffic across environments.
- Cloud DNS routing policies with public IP health checking enables intelligent traffic routing across multiple cloud providers.
- Health checks probe internet-based endpoints, allowing automated traffic steering based on backend health.
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Google’s latest update targets Fitbit batteries, and not in a good way
- Google's latest update is targeting the batteries of Fitbit Sense and Versa 3.
- The update aims to reduce the risk of battery overheating but results in reduced battery life and capacity.
- Fitbit owners must install the firmware update within a few days or risk data loss after a device reset.
- Google offers a $50 rebate to affected users, with a claim period until January 21, 2026.
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