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Victoria’s Secret partners with Google Cloud for generative AI

Victoria's Secret has entered into a strategic, multi-year partnership with Google Cloud, for advanced AI and generative AI technologies. 

Google will turn off cookies for 30 million people on January 4 — Gizmodo

It’s the first major step in its Privacy Sandbox project, which aims to replace cookies with a different kind of tracking that Google says is better for your privacy, writes Thomas Germain.

Google Cloud, HashiCorp expand partnership to integrate AI in cloud

Google Cloud and HashiCorp announced an expansion of their partnership, focusing on integrating generative AI into cloud transformation solutions for their mutual customers.

Google loses monopoly case to Fortnite maker Epic Games — BBC

The makers of Fortnite has won a US court battle against Google, with a jury deciding that the search giant had operated an illegal monopoly, writes Suranjana Tewari.

Google just launched Gemini, its long-awaited answer to ChatGPT — Wired

An initial version of Gemini starts to roll out today inside Google’s chatbot Bard for the English language setting, writes Will Knight.