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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Google Announces New AI System Gemini

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: AMD rolls out new AI chips. And New Mexico alleges in a lawsuit that Facebook and Instagram steered apparent child predators to children. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Wednesday, December 6th.

0:05.0

I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.

0:08.0

This is our new afternoon roundup of the day's big tech headlines.

0:12.0

Google says it has developed a new AI system that it says is more powerful than any on the market.

0:18.0

The system, called Gemini, is Google's latest attempt to take on Open AI,

0:22.8

whose launch of ChatGPT last year

0:25.0

caught the company flat-footed.

0:27.1

As of today, Gemini powers Google's

0:29.3

chat-based AI tool Bard

0:31.5

and will be integrated into other Google products next year.

0:35.0

Advanced Micro Devices says it's rolling out its newest chips for artificial intelligence.

0:40.0

In its latest earnings report, AMD said that it anticipated more than $2 billion of revenue

0:45.1

from its AI chips next year, driven by insatiable demand for the computing power needed to

0:50.4

produce advanced AI systems.

0:52.7

It may prove to be the toughest challenge yet

0:54.7

for dominant chipmaker, NVIDIA.

0:57.4

And we exclusively report that the state of New Mexico

1:00.6

is suing Meta over its handling of child predators on some of its platforms.

1:05.1

The civil lawsuit, which was filed yesterday, alleges that Facebook and Instagram recommend sexual

1:10.0

content to underage users and promoted miners accounts to apparent child predators and

1:15.0

failed to implement protections.

1:17.1

W.S.J. Tech reporter Jeff Horwitz has more on the lawsuit.

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