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After a week of AI-related search news, we wonder if (or when) a bot can offer up the kind of advice that comes from human experience.

The new AI chatbots learned from human-written content, but now seek to outrank and replace that content.

Google is launching its AI chatbot platform, Bard, while Microsoft is poised to show off Bing and its work with OpenAI.

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announces that 12,000 employees, across many areas of Alphabet, will be laid off.

5 Gbps and 8Gbps services will cost $125 and $150 per month, respectively. Announcement comes in the wake of Google teasing 20 Gbps service tests.

Priced from $399, this new breed of Chromebook offers; 120 Hz+ screen refresh rates, RGB keyboards, fast networking, and apps for GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Amazon Luna.

Google Japan introduces the GBoard stick version keyboard, which resembles a long ruler that users can make at home.

Google is shutting down its Stadia game streaming service, though it may be used in other projects.

Google currently offers 1 and 2 Gbps fiber services, but is going to “dramatically expand our multi-gigabit tiers,” in the coming months.

A new AOM-AV1 update was just released by Google, improving AV1's encoding performance by up to 34% with 16 encoding threads or more.