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In today's Techpresso:
🫠 Google needs to lay off more people to meet 'ambitious targets'
📱 Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup goes all in on AI
🚪 Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta’s board after 12 years
🔎 Study confirms that search results are getting worse
🔒 48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🫠 Google needs to lay off more people to meet 'ambitious targets'LINK
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has alerted employees that additional job cuts are expected throughout the year beyond the layoffs since January 10th.
Sundar Pichai's internal memo emphasizes the need for tough choices to invest in big priorities, leading to role eliminations across multiple Google teams.
Pichai's announcement indicates ongoing changes and strategic resource allocations that may result in further impacts on employees' roles at Google.
📱 Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup goes all in on AILINK
Samsung's new Galaxy S24 series focuses on AI, introducing features like Live Translate, Chat Assist, Transcript Assist, Note Assist, and Generative Edit, while also running Google's Gemini model for enhanced AI capabilities. The Galaxy S24 phones offer new search capabilities with the 'Circle to Search with Google' feature, allowing users to search by circling objects in images, and adding text-based questions to searches. Samsung promises to bring the new AI features to older Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S23 series and the Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 models, extending support for Galaxy phones to seven years.
🚪 Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta’s board after 12 yearsLINK
Sheryl Sandberg announced she is leaving Meta's board of directors, choosing not to stand for reelection in May and opting to serve as an advisor to the company instead. Sandberg, former COO of Facebook and a board member since 2012, joined Facebook in 2008 after working at Google for nearly seven years. Sandberg's departure follows her decision to leave Meta in mid-2022 amidst various controversies and scrutiny faced by the company, including antitrust investigations and criticism for its handling of hate speech.
🔎 Study confirms that search results are getting worseLINK
A new study by German researchers confirms that search results, particularly for product reviews, are increasingly dominated by low-quality, spammy content on major search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. The study found an inverse relationship between the prevalence of affiliate marketing and content complexity, indicating that pages with more affiliate links and SEO-optimized text provide poorer quality content. The researchers noted that popular search engines are struggling to combat SEO spam, and the situation is expected to worsen with the rise of generative AI algorithms, which can produce large volumes of low-quality content for SEO manipulation.
🔒 48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single personLINK
A new study found that Facebook received data on individual users from an average of 2,230 companies per person, with 186,892 companies providing data on all study participants.
One participant's data was shared with Facebook by nearly 48,000 different companies, highlighting the extensive reach of Facebook's data-gathering from various businesses.
Volunteers pulled their data from Facebook and found that large retailers and data brokers, as well as smaller and unidentifiable businesses, frequently shared their information.
Other news you might like
Silicon Valley billionaires behind secretive new California city pitch voters after stealthily buying $800m of farmland.LINK
Instagram will start telling night owl teens to close the app and go to sleep.LINK
BMW partners with robotics startup Figure to integrate humanoid robots into its South Carolina manufacturing facility, potentially revolutionizing automotive production.LINK
Spotify CEO says he's probably 'the least powerful person in the company'LINK
Reddit reportedly seeks to launch IPO in March.LINK
Scientists use AI to predict when cancer cells will resist chemotherapy.LINK
Netflix won't launch a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, opting instead to offer content via the headset's web browser.LINK
Latest research and tools
WhisperSpeech: an open-source text-to-speech system created by reversing the Whisper model to generate speech from text.LINK
Doom source code release: the original Doom game's source code was made available under the GPLv2 license for people to study and modify.LINK
Teller: a tool that manages and provides access to secrets directly within your terminal, without the need to navigate away from it.LINK
Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD: the paper introduces a new type of generative model that improves itself over time without additional data.LINK
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