In Brief: Startpage search engine launches the Starpage Privacy Protection browser extension as free download for Chrome and Firefox
The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.
The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.
Google commits to improve enforcement of its age-based ad policy after Reuters found ads for sex toys and liquor among postings on its search engine that kids could see.
Do you miss those innocent days when every product announcement breathlessly reported the new system or feature was “AI-based”? If so, here’s a whiff of remembrance from AI infrastructure provider SambaNova Systems, who found that 78% of large companies rate AI and Machine Learning as important revenue drivers. Yet even they have a curiously mixed attitude, citing (in their press release) a NewVantage Partners study that found only a quarter of top companies have scaled AI/ML across their organization.
Google will pay to carry stories from Canadian news outlets under an agreement announced yesterday. Details are sparse but the process for compliance with government’s C-18 law has been simplified to meet some Google objections. Meta, the only other firm required to make payments under the law, has not changed its decision to block reliable news.