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Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Purnima Kochikar, Google’s vice president of play, took the stand Thursday to defend why Project Hug wasn’t a bribe in the trial of Epic Games v. Google where the search giant is being sued for anti-competitive practices on its app store. Kochikar says…

Apple has reportedly delayed the approval of an update to an AI-powered email app. According to a report in WallStreetJournal, an update to the email app BlueMail was blocked last week. The report quotes Ben Volach, co-founder of BlueMail developer Blix Inc. BlueMail uses a customized version of OpenAI's GPT-3 language model. Blix co-founder slams Apple Ben Volach, the co-founder of BlueMail developer Blix Inc does not agree with Apple. "Apple is making it really hard to bring innovation to our users," Volach told WSJ. He…