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Google expanded its Chrome Enterprise product suite Tuesday with Chrome Enterprise Premium at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. Google has long offered an enterprise version of its Chrome browser. Chrome Enterprise gives IT the ability to manage an employee's browser settings, which extensions he installs, which web apps he uses, and more. But more importantly, you also get many new security controls for data loss prevention, malware protection, phishing prevention, and zero-trust access to SaaS apps. Priced at $6 per user per month, Chrome Enterprise Premium primarily extends the security features of existing services based on the…

While the jury is still out on how much AI will improve personal productivity, companies are now looking to monetize AI by building more advanced AI capabilities into their software. Last year, Microsoft made headlines when it announced that Copilot would add $30 per user per month to the price of Office 365 subscriptions. However, creating and running these features is costly, and customers must bear some of that cost. At Google Cloud Next, Google followed Microsoft's monetization lead and announced two add-on packages for the Google Workspace productivity suite priced at $10 per user per month. Image credit: Frederic…

Google doesn't have the best track record when it comes to image generation AI. In February, an image generator built into Google's AI-powered chatbot Gemini randomly inserted gender and racial diversity into prompts about people, resulting in offensive inaccuracies. Among other things, it was found that images of racially diverse Nazis were being produced. Google has vowed to retire the generator, improve it and eventually re-release it. While we wait for its return, the company will release Imagen 2, an enhanced image generation tool within his Vertex AI developer platform. However, it is clearly an enterprise tool. Google announced Imagen…

Google Cloud Next will be held in Las Vegas this week. That means it's time for many new instance types and accelerators to come to Google Cloud Platform. In addition to his new custom Arm-based Axion chip, most of this year's announcements are about AI accelerators, whether made by Google or Nvidia. Just a few weeks ago, Nvidia announced the Blackwell platform. But don't expect Google to offer these machines any time soon. Support for the high-performance Nvidia HGX B200 for AI and HPC workloads and GB200 NBL72 for large-scale language model (LLM) training is expected to be available in…

Google continues to introduce more AI-driven features to its Workspace productivity application. The company announced Tuesday at its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas that Google Workspace subscribers will soon be able to use voice prompts to initiate Gmail's AI-based “writing help” feature on the go, for example. did. Additionally, Google is releasing a new feature to his Gmail for Workspace that allows you to instantly transform your rough email drafts into more polished emails. Image credit: Google These features will first be available to paid members. Asked about this at a press conference ahead of Tuesday's announcement, Google's Aparna…

Google on Tuesday announced Gemini Code Assist, an AI code completion and assistance tool for enterprises, at its Cloud Next conference. If this looks familiar, it might be because Google previously offered a similar service under the now-defunct Duet AI brand. The service became generally available in late 2023, but even then Google had already hinted that it would move the service from the Codey model to Gemini in the near future. Code Assist is both a rebrand and a major update to an older service. Code Assist, which Google Cloud demonstrated at its 30,000-person conference in Las Vegas, will…

Google on Tuesday announced updates to existing products and services, as well as new cloud-based security products aimed at customers managing large, multi-tenant enterprise networks, at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. and services announced. Many of the announcements were about Gemini, Google's flagship AI-generated model family. For example, Google announced Gemini in Threat Intelligence, a new Gemini-powered component of its Mandiant cybersecurity platform. Threat Intelligence's Gemini, currently in public preview, analyzes the vast majority of potentially malicious code, enables users to search for ongoing threats and indicators of compromise in natural language, and searches on the web…

Data sovereignty and residency laws have become common in recent years. But major clouds have always been set up to allow data to move freely between different locations, so over the last few years all hyperscalers have been able to offer sovereign clouds that can guarantee government safety. I started thinking about methods. For example, data never leaves a particular country. AWS announced its European Sovereign Cloud in October last year. Microsoft Azure Cloud for Sovereignty was made generally available in December. Google Cloud's approach is a little different. Back in 2021, Google Cloud partnered with T-Systems to bring sovereign…

Google wants Gemini, its family of generative AI models, to power its app database in a way. Google announced the public preview of Gemini in Databases at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. This is a collection of features supported by Gemini to “simplify all aspects of database migration,” as the company advertises. In less technical terms, Gemini in Databases is a bundle of AI-powered, developer-focused tools for Google Cloud customers creating, monitoring, and migrating app databases. One of Gemini in Databases is Database Studio, an editor for Structured Query Language (SQL), the language used to store and…

A Danish startup that wants to help automate lab experiments that require visual inspection by research and development teams has raised $20 million in a Series A round to expand its technology in the U.S. Founded in Copenhagen in 2018, Reshape is a robotic imaging company packed with software and AI models to help scientists track visual changes such as color and cell growth rates from Petri dishes and similar plate formats. developed the system. The machine has a built-in incubation function that can be set to a specific temperature and records the corresponding data, allowing experiments to be easily…