Google scraps minimum wage, benefits rules for suppliers and staffing firms
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc‘s Google on Friday said it will roll back requirements that U.S. suppliers and staffing firms pay their employees at least $15 an hour…
Epic Games proposes Google app store reforms after antitrust win
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games has urged a federal judge in California to force Google to open up its Play Store to greater competition…
Google unveils Arm-based data center processor, new AI chip
By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google on Tuesday revealed the details of a new version of its data center artificial intelligence chips and announced an Arm-based based…
Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were…
AI race, Apple will pay Google lots of money to get Gemini on iPhone
Apple puts artificial intelligence in the phones and Google. The possibility of integrating Gemini, Big G’s most effective Large Language Model, on the future iPhone is more than a hypothesis, according…
Google and DMA, the truth about the changes
Google: On 6 September 2023, the European Commission formally designated the first Gatekeepers, the six major companies that were to comply with the requirements of the Digital Markets Act, the…
Analysis-Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target tech
By Foo Yun Chee and Supantha Mukherjee BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down…
Lights and shadows of AI according to Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind
During the days of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I had the opportunity to listen to Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, one of the most well-known and influential companies focused on…
Apple in talks to let Google’s Gemini power iPhone AI features
By Jahnavi Nidumolu (Reuters) – Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the…
Google restricts AI chatbot Gemini from answering queries on global elections
By Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) – Google is restricting AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions about the global elections set to happen this year, the Alphabet-owned firm said on Tuesday, as…