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GOOGLE LOSES FIGHT TO HIDE 2021 MONEY PIT: $26B IN DEFAULT CONTRACTS

Google's senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified during the company's monopoly trial, saying that Google's default agreements with mobile phone manufacturers and web browsers were the company's biggest cost in 2021. Google paid $26.3 billion for default agreements while raking in $146.4 billion in revenue from search advertising in 2021. The company says that these deals are legal and that its dominance is not due to them.

PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING WITH CHATGPT FOR HOURS, BRINGING 2013’S HER CLOSER TO REALITY

People are now having hours-long discussions with ChatGPT on the go. The latest ChatGPT update allows the AI to see, hear, and speak. It enables people to use the assistant in many more situations for things like creative development, brainstorming, or simple conversation. Being able to interact with the assistant through voice has made more people feel a deeper emotional connection with it, with many people drawing similarities between ChatGPT and Samantha from the 2013 movie 'Her'.

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