According to a report in Axios, Google fired Mitchell after she used an automated script to look through her emails in order to find evidence of discrimination against her coworker Timnit Gebru who was fired earlier.
Google s former pride and joy, its Ethical AI research team, is turning out to be a PR campaign gone awry . The search giant had hired scientists promising them freedom, but the honeymoon period ended when they began publishing papers critical of Google s own products.
Big Tech versus journalism: Publishers watch Australia fight with bated breath
19 Feb, 2021 04:34 AM
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Facebook has blocked the sharing of news in Australia. Video / NZ Herald
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Consequences of Facebook and Google s radically different approaches unclear for other news groups. In trying to force a new economic settlement between the news industry and Big Tech, did the Australian government just save journalism or break it?
Facebook and Google on Wednesday posted drastically different responses to a proposed new Australian law designed to channel some of their vast profits into the pockets of news publishers. These sent reverberations through the global news business and threw down a challenge to politicians around the world, some of whom view the Australian experiment as a model for how to reset the economics of online news inside their own borders.
Although there s been speculation that the reason for the lack of updates to iOS versions of Gmail, Docs, Search, and Photos is an attempt to avoid Apple s new privacy labels, Google has explicitly denied that was the case. Last month, the company said in a blog post that it would add the labels to its apps when updates were available, reports The Verge.As G