Alphabet, Google’s parent company, agreed to pay $700 million and make changes to its online app store, adhering to the terms of an antitrust settlement released Monday. As part of the deal, the company will make changes to its app store to reduce barriers to competition for developers, including allowing apps to charge users directly. … [Read more…]
Microsoft has just unveiled Phi-2, its latest artificial intelligence (AI) language model, positioning itself as a notable advance over competitors like Llama 2 and Mistral 7B. With 2.7 billion parameters, Phi-2 demonstrates comparable performance to much larger models, even outperforming Google’s recent Gemini Nano 2 despite its half a billion additional parameters. Microsoft researchers highlight … [Read more…]
Atlantico: A California jury ruled in favor of Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite, which accused Google of abusing a dominant position in the market for the distribution of applications on Android. In particular, the jury found that Google acted anti-competitively by imposing the Google Play Billing payment service and charging a commission on the … [Read more…]