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Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams. Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also departing.

Google defended its AI Overviews feature but said it would implement new safeguards after the tool told people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas and dismissed fake viral screenshots claiming it endorsed smoking for pregnant people.

Google Australia’s new tool allows users to monitor search results for their phone number, home address, banking details, and email address. The initiative aims to prevent doxxing, financial fraud, and cybercrime.

Q1 was the company’s best-ever quarterly profit thanks to whopping 62% year-over-year growth.

Unlike major competitors including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama 3 model is open source and the AI assistant it powers has previously been locked inside the company’s app ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram.

The latest notification comes several months after the iPhone maker warned opposition politicians in India of a potential cyber attack.

Google parent Alphabet registered its highest share price ever on Tuesday, as the search engine titan rides the artificial intelligence wave to a historic valuation.

Canva is using it. Woolworths is too. So is unicorn Culture Amp. Some of Australia’s most successful companies are utilising Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities. Google Sydney opened its doors to Forbes Australia to show us the multimodal power of Gemini Pro.

If a deal happens, it could provide a major boost to Gemini, as it battles with rival AI services from the likes of OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic.

Security experts advise against using SMS messages for two-factor authentication codes due to their vulnerability to interception or compromise. Recently, a security researcher discovered an unsecured database on the internet containing millions of such codes, which could be easily accessed by anyone.