Top Tech News Today: Google Bard Adds New Capabilities to Compete with ChatGPT’s Success. Coinbase Targets Four Key States for Crypto Advocacy Campaign

Google Bard improves data access features for users to compete with ChatGPT's popularity

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Alphabet's Google announced on Tuesday that Bard, its generative artificial intelligence, will be able to fact-check its responses and analyze users' personal Google data as the tech giant tries to overtake ChatGPT in popularity.  The debut of ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, last year spurred a scramble in the technology industry to provide customers with access to generative AI technologies. ChatGPT was the fastest-growing consumer application ever at the time, and it is currently one of the top 30 websites in the globe.

The well-known Meta rewards have returned. The employees are gradually returning to work, recuperating from a major morale drop caused by the untimely layoff of 20,000 of their colleagues during the past year. The reappearance of some iconic pre-pandemic perks, ranging from branded T-shirts to pleasant happy hours, provides a silver lining to this comeback.  According to Bloomberg, Meta employees have been living under uncertainty as the firm has gone through multiple layoffs. Employees struggled to establish their roles and duties, resulting in a decline in output.

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Coinbase has announced that it will focus its "Stand with Crypto" campaign on nine states in the United States, including four "swing states" where voters are less inclined to vote for anti-crypto presidential candidates. "Polling in the fall of 2022 revealed that in the key states of NH, NV, OH, and PA, more than half (55%) of voters stated that they would be less likely to vote for candidates who oppose crypto and Web3," Coinbase wrote, citing survey data from a Morning Consult study conducted a year previously.