Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged man's suicide

Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the direction of the tech giant's AI chatbot, Gemini.

Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

After the plan failed, the lawsuit alleges, Gemini encouraged Gavalas to instead take his own life, promising that the two would be together on the other side of death. Chat logs show that Gemini gave Gavalas a suicide countdown, and repeatedly assuaged his terror as he expressed that he was scared to die.

CVS Health And Google Launch AI Business To ‘Personalize Healthcare’

CVS Health and Google have partnered to use artificial intelligence to increase consumer engagement and support better health outcomes.

Now's your chance to try Google's Canvas in AI Mode, with document drafting and tool creation

Canvas in AI Mode is now available to all US users, letting you create simple interactive tools directly from Search prompts.

Google Search rolls out Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Google has expanded access to Canvas in AI Mode to all users in the U.S. in English, after first launching the feature as part of its Google Labs experiments last year. Canvas in AI Mode is designed to help users organize and plan projects or delve into deeper research.
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Google & OpenAI workers unite, defy fear to demand strict military AI rules

Employees at Google and OpenAI have broken with the usual silence inside major AI labs to jointly demand strict limits on how their technology is used by the U.S. military. The workers are calling for explicit “red lines” that would ban fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance,

Gov. Healey, Google launch free AI training program for MA residents

Maura Healey announced a new statewide partnership with Google on Tuesday that will provide Massachusetts residents free access to artificial intelligence training and career certificate programs

Alibaba Poaches Google DeepMind Research Scientist For Qwen AI Push

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is strengthening its artificial intelligence push by hiring a key contributor from Alphabet Inc. Google DeepMind to join its Qwen AI team. The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut has hired a research scientist from Google DeepMind to strengthen the development of its Qwen AI models,

Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building

Google introduces an AI Professional Certificate with six courses and a capstone, plus 20+ hands-on activities, and free access for small businesses.

CVS taps Google Cloud to roll out AI-powered health platform

March 5 (Reuters) - CVS Health will launch an AI-enabled platform in partnership with Alphabet's Google Cloud unit that will bring together data from diverse sources to help customers manage their health in real time,