A 44-year-old agreement that established a framework for the U.S. and China to cooperate on scientific research is set to expire at the end of August — putting a longstanding pillar of relations between the two countries in question.
Why it matters: Whether the agreement — the first signed between the U.S. and China when they normalized relations in the late 1970s — is renewed, reworked or left to expire will send a signal to Beijing. Politicians and practitioners are now debating what exactly that message should be.
Google is taking the first step in its master plan to pop up more student-run cybersecurity consultancies across the U.S.
Driving the news:Google is awarding a $2.2 million, three-year grant to the University of California, Berkeley to help build out and bring on new members to the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics —of which the university is co-chair.
Google announced Thursday a suite of upgraded and simplified tools for users to remove personal data and images from search results, and to blur out explicit content while searching.
Google will now offer the option of notifying you of new search results that contain your personal phone number, home address or email, and make it easier to request removal of that data.
Explicit imagery will now automatically be blurred for all users of Google's SafeSearch tool, starting later this month.
Why it matters: The policies continue a slow but years-long policy shift among platforms to give their users more control of their data.
It's another sign of the influence of the EU's landmark privacy legislation. Google is essentially offering a version of the EU's "right to be forgotten," with a focus on personal and explicit information.
Yes, but: There's no word from yet from Google on whether users will be able to request removal of their information from AI training data.
The search result removal tools will initially be available only to U.S. users and in English.
What they're saying: "We know it's important to stay in control of your online experience," Danielle Romain, Google's vice president of trust, said in a blog post.
Generative AI may be the talk of tech, but it has yet to significantly reshape the industry's economics, as the most recent earnings reports show.
Why it matters: After a grueling year and a half of layoffs and retrenching, Big Tech has yet to present Wall Street with a return to blockbuster numbers — but AI has given the industry a big fuzzy growth story, and sometimes the market finds that even more thrilling.
Apple on Thursday said it now has more than 1 billion paid subscriptions across all of its services, including Apple Music, iCloud, Apple News, Apple TV+ and more.
