Google offers to tweak search results to promote rivals, stave off EU antitrust fine, documents show

Google offers to tweak search results to promote rivals, stave off EU antitrust fine, documents show

Alphabet’s Google has proposed more changes to its search results to better showcase rivals in a bid to stave off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine, according to documents seen by Reuters. Google’s latest proposal came three months after the European Commission charged the U.S. tech giant with favouring its own services such as Google […]

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Google faces setback as EU court adviser backs antitrust regulators

Google faces setback as EU court adviser backs antitrust regulators

Alphabet’s Google faced a potential setback on Thursday as an adviser to Europe’s highest court sided with EU antitrust regulators in the company’s fight against a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.98 billion) fine levied seven years ago. The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its Android mobile operating system to block […]

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Rejected 400 times, now steering a 0 billion company: Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora’s unique journey

Rejected 400 times, now steering a $130 billion company: Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora’s unique journey

“Scarcity encourages you to be resourceful. It allows you to do a lot more with a lot less,” said Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks Inc., a US-based multinational cybersecurity company. Arora, in a candid conversation with Karishma Mehta of Humans of Bombay, opened up about his journey – from formative years to […]

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Google Search can now read results out loud using Audio Overviews

Google Search can now read results out loud using Audio Overviews

Over the last few months, Google has been steadily integrating AI into its search engine. The tech giant, which accounts for almost 90 per cent of search queries on the internet, has now announced that it is bringing Audio Overviews for select search queries. Added to NotebookLM last year, Google says Audio Overview in Search […]

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Google’s  billion deal for Wiz gets antitrust review

Google’s $32 billion deal for Wiz gets antitrust review

The U.S. Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google’s planned acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the marketplace, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, valued at about $32 billion, would be Alphabet’s largest acquisition. It will integrate Wiz into Google’s cloud unit, enhancing […]

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Google, Scale AI’s largest customer, plans split after Meta deal

Google, Scale AI’s largest customer, plans split after Meta deal

Alphabet’s Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale afternews broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Google had planned to pay Scale AI about $200 million this year for the human-labeled training data that is […]

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Google Photos to soon get Material 3 Expressive redesign: Here’s how it looks like

Google Photos to soon get Material 3 Expressive redesign: Here’s how it looks like

Last month, Google announced that Android 16 and WearOS 6 will be getting a new design language called “Material 3 Expressive”. In a blog post, the tech giant said the new UI redesign “feels even more fluid and introduces a system of more natural, springy animations.” Since then, Google has been giving some of its […]

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Tech giants’ indirect emissions rose 150% in three years as AI expands, UN agency says

Tech giants’ indirect emissions rose 150% in three years as AI expands, UN agency says

Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centres, a United Nations report said on Thursday. The use of artificial intelligence by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta drove up their global indirect emissions because of […]

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What if Google just broke itself up? A tech insider makes the case

What if Google just broke itself up? A tech insider makes the case

Google has lost two important antitrust cases in the past year. Its search business is threatened and its stock is stalled. Federal prosecutors are pushing for it to divest various businesses. Unless the company can pull off a few miracles in court, it will be forced to shrink. There’s another possibility. Instead of resisting change, […]

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AI’s Unchecked Ascent: How Big Tech is outpacing the regulatory rulebook

AI’s Unchecked Ascent: How Big Tech is outpacing the regulatory rulebook

Artificial intelligence is experiencing a period of meteoric acceleration. Scarcely a week passes without fresh demonstrations of its expanding capabilities, as giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Microsoft unveil deeper integrations of their AI models, each flaunting ever more advanced capabilities.  These firms’ fortunes were built on data, both scraped from the internet and […]

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