• Google’s new AI for corner kick tactics gets Liverpool approval

    PARIS, FRANCE – Liverpool football analysts have given their seal of approval to a new artificial intelligence tool from Google that suggests the best tactics for corner kicks, researchers said on Tuesday. However no Liverpool players -- or any humans -- have tried out the AI assistant's suggestions, and an outside...
  • Gemini’s inaccurate AI racial images warn of tech titans’ power

    AUSTIN, US – For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans. Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed as "completely...
  • US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes TikTok ban bill

    The measure requires TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell the app within 180 days or see it barred from the Apple and Google app stores in the US. The lawmakers voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity in politically...
  • Apple’s changes contradicts European rules, 34 firms complain

    Brussels, Belgium - Changes Apple is making to its services in the European Union "make a mockery" of new antitrust rules in the bloc, 34 digital organizations complained to the European Commission this week. They include app makers Epic Games and Spotify. "We are very concerned that Apple’s proposed scheme for...
  • AI the new obsession for venture capital investing

    Stung by the struggles of cryptocurrency and other faded Silicon Valley fads of recent years, venture capitalists have quickly doubled down on AI, a new promised land in the never-ending quest for big tech riches. For the big investors, "if it's not AI, it's not worth it," Denis Barrier, co-founder...
  • AI in focus as world’s biggest mobile fair gets underway in Spain

    Barcelona, Spain - The world's biggest mobile phone fair throws open its doors in Barcelona Monday with the sector looking to artificial intelligence to try and reverse declining sales. Phone makers are expected to focus on the unique AI-powered tools of their latest handsets at the four-day Mobile World Congress in...
  • Saudi media ministry and Google join forces for digital transformation

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Ministry of Media and Google have joined forces in a strategic collaboration aimed at driving the digital transformation of Saudi Arabia's media sector. The announcement, made during the 3rd Saudi Media Forum in Riyadh, aligns with Minister of Media Salman Al-Dosary's declaration that 2024 is...
  • Google AI research hub in Paris to host 300 experts

    The new hub part of a trend for big tech firms to base teams in European centers.
  • AI giants to unveil pact to fight political deepfakes

    The idea comes as big tech companies are under considerable pressure over fears that AI-powered applications could be misused in a pivotal election year. Meta, Google and OpenAI have already agreed to use a common watermarking standard that would tag images generated by their AI applications, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT,...
  • EU excuses Apple and Microsoft products from tougher tech curbs

    Brussels, Belgium - Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Bing search engine got a reprieve from tougher EU rules curbing how tech titans do business, the European Commission said on Tuesday. From next month, the world's biggest digital firms, identified as "gatekeepers" by the EU, must comply with strict do's and don'ts under...
  • Most markets advance after tech titans fuel Wall Street surge

    Shares in Amazon, Apple and Facebook owner Meta all climbed during Thursday's session. All three companies were due to report results after the market closed
  • US stocks rebound from sell-off on Fed disappointment

    New York, United States - Wall Street stocks rose early Thursday, rebounding from the prior session's pullback as markets awaited more big tech earnings later in the day. Major indices had tumbled on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened expectations for an imminent cut in interest rates. Adam Sarhan...
  • Google says AI helped boost profits

    Alphabet reported a profit of $20.7 billion.
  • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund posts record US$213bn profit

    Oslo, Norway - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, said Tuesday it raked in a record profit of 2.2 trillion kroner ($213 billion) last year, driven by tech stocks and a weak national currency. The fund's total value reached close to 15.8 trillion kroner last year. The 16.1 percent return...
  • Google to invest US$1bn in UK data centre

    It will meet growing demand for internet services in the region.
  • Google CEO says more layoffs are likely this year

    SAN FRANCISCO, US - Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned employees that more layoffs are in store at the search engine giant as it focused on new priorities, including artificial intelligence. "These role eliminations are not at the scale of last year's reductions and will not touch every team. But I...
  • Samsung’s AI pivot

    Part of the company's bid to reclaim smartphone throne.
  • Google to slash ‘few hundred’ jobs

    The internet giant will cut jobs from its global ad team.
  • EU court’s adviser says $2.6bn fine on Google be upheld

    Google suffered a legal blow at the European Court of Justice when the body's adviser recommended that a US$2.6 billion fine levied on it for anti-competitive practices be upheld. Although such opinions are not binding, they do carry weight and are often followed by EU judges in their rulings.
  • EU examines Microsoft large investment in OpenAI

    Brussels, Belgium - The EU, racing to regulate the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, said on Tuesday it has started a preliminary study of Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar investment in ChatGPT developer OpenAI to see if it could be a disguised merger. The early-level examination is "checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might...
  • Google Chrome begins restricting cookies in first step towards elimination

    Paris, France - Google has begun limiting third-party cookies for some users of its Chrome web browser, a first step towards eventually abandoning the files that have raised privacy concerns. Google, which announced in 2020 that it planned to get rid of cookies, said fully eliminating third-party cookies could only happen...
  • Google agrees to settle $5bn data privacy breach lawsuit

    Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing privately. In a court filing, the judge confirmed that lawyers for Google reached a preliminary agreement to settle the class action...
  • Google to pay US$700m to US consumers

    It is an antitrust settlement made public recently.
  • Canada print media to get two-thirds of Google’s payment to news outlets

    The agreement between Canada and Google is part of the Online News Act, which aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a flight of advertising dollars and hundreds of publications closed in the last decade. It comes into force on Tuesday.
  • EU seeks critical details from Apple and Google on digital safety

    Brussels, Belgium - The EU demanded on Thursday that Apple and Google provide more details on how they identified risks concerning their respective software hubs, the App Store and Google Play. The request for information is the first step in a process begun under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), but...
  • Google releases the top trending searches of the year in MENA

    Dubai, UAE - Google on Monday released the top trending searches of 2023 for the Middle East and North Africa. The annual lists reveal the most trending search queries which experienced a higher volume of search over a sustained period in 2023 compared to 2022. The lists included the top...
  • Microsoft and US labor group join hands on AI

    The alliance comes as workers and governments are fretting over the potential repercussions of AI on work, with fears that whole industries and professions could be displaced by human-replacing technology. Microsoft has become the standard-bearer of the AI revolution, moving faster than other tech giants in adopting the technology.
  • Meta, IBM tie up to develop AI

    They will defend a collaborative method for AI's future.
  • Google to pay Canadian media $73m annually after a deal with Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada -- The Canadian government and Google have reached a deal to support the country's media, heading off an imminent threat by the digital giant to block news on its platform, sources said on Wednesday. That threat was made in response to Ottawa's Online News Act, which was due...
  • Amazon releases AI chatbot

    "Q" will be available only to the company's AWS cloud.
  • Google launches new AI features for organizing photos

    Washington, United States - Google said on Thursday that Google Photos now groups together similar photos and organizes screenshots and photos of documents into easy-to-find albums. The company said in a blog post that Google Photos will automatically identify and group similar photos that were taken close together into Photo...
  • Snapchat to add in-app Amazon shopping

    In-app shopping will be available for select products advertised on Snapchat and sold at Amazon, the spokesperson added. People will be able to link their Snapchat and Amazon accounts to take advantage of the in-app shopping feature, according to Amazon.
  • Google warns against downloading its AI model from external sources

    Washington, US--Google has warned users against trying to obtain its Cold generative artificial intelligence (AI) model from external sources currently available on the Internet and confirms in an official statement that the copies are spyware that will expose users to danger. Google continues to work on Bard tools, which are...
  • OpenAI sees a future of AI ‘superpowers on demand’

    Dreams of the benefits of generative AI -- along with fears of the technology's risks -- have been hot topics in the tech world since ChatGPT made its blockbuster debut a year ago. More than 2 million developers are building on the OpenAI platform, while more than 100 million people...
  • Dubai’s tech ambitions take center stage at GITEX Global

    Dubai, UAE - Global tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Zoom and Huawei are among more than 6,000 businesses displaying their latest advancements in fields like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, mobility and sustainability at the 42nd annual GITEX Global, the biggest tech event of the year. Spanning a five-day extravaganza, the...
  • X removes headlines from news articles shared by users

    The changes brought a good deal of criticism, journalist Tom Warren of The Verge website posting on X: "It's the latest in a long line of dumb changes on this platform."
  • AI of the tiger: Tiny camera ‘protects’ predator and people

    Experts from Clemson University in South Carolina and several NGOs published research last month on their work using AI-enabled cameras that they say could help revolutionize tiger conservation. They placed tiny devices around enclosures in the two South Asian nations, both to protect villagers from the predators -- and the...
  • Google’s new phone to run AI on-device

    At a launch event in New York, Rick Osterloh, SVP of devices and services at Google, said that the company's AI teams had figured out how to "distill" AI models "into a version efficient enough to run on our flagship Pixel." Google caught some by surprise with news that the...
  • Meta putting AI in smart glasses, assistants and more

    Zuckerberg made his announcements at the Connect developers conference at Meta's headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company's main annual product event. The event was the first in-person edition of Connect since 2019, before the pandemic, and announcements on generative AI were widely expected.
  • Amazon to pour US$4bn into Anthropic

    Its investment will heat up the race for dominance in AI.
  • Google’s AI chatbot goes personal tapping into Gmail, YouTube

    Google has for years discreetly developed AI powers but was caught off guard when OpenAI late last year released ChatGPT and teamed up with Microsoft to make its capabilities available to users worldwide. Google then raced out its own Bard chatbot earlier this year, making it available in more than...
  • Google gives select companies access to its Gemini AI

    The company plans to make Gemini available through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service, and will offer access to models of different sizes so that developers can use smaller ones for simpler tasks. It has given developers access to a relatively large version of Gemini but not the largest version...
  • Europe’s tussle with Big Tech involves dominance, data, disinformation

    Paris, France - Irish regulators on Friday handed out a 345-million-euro ($369-million) fine to TikTok over data breaches, part of a battle between the European Union and big tech firms on issues from tax avoidance and hate speech to data privacy and monopolistic practices. Here is a summary of the tussles...
  • US govt face Google in landmark antitrust lawsuit

    Washington, US - A landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine began in a Washington courtroom on Tuesday. "This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google will ever face meaningful competition in search," said Justice Department lawyer...
  • How cyber scammers are trying to make AI tools pay

    The two worlds of artificial intelligence and cybercrime are starting to collide, with cybercriminals trading tips in online forums on the best ways to get chatbots to generate phishing emails. The big players block users from generating these kinds of emails, so developers have designed programs aimed at creating phishing...
  • $8.7 billion lawsuit in UK accuses Google of stifling competition

    It accuses Google of breaching competition law by shutting out mobile search competition and using its market dominance to increase the prices paid by advertisers for their prominence on the Google search page.
  • Apple, Facebook among tech giants to face tough new EU curbs

    The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust body, named 22 "core platform" services belonging to five US tech behemoths identified as "gatekeepers" -- Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft -- and China's ByteDance. The services included Apple's App Store; Meta's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp; Google's YouTube video platform and...
  • Tech titans prepare for EU’s tougher market restraints

    Brussels is working through a dense legislative agenda to build tougher regulation of big tech, arguing it needs to protect European users online and to encourage competition. The announcement is a milestone in the application of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will force the largest firms to change their...
  • Google’s Russian division faces bankruptcy as debt to creditors soars: TASS

    Moscow, Russia - Google's Russian subsidiary is on the brink of bankruptcy as it struggles to cope with its mounting debt to creditors, Russian news agency TASS reported on Monday.  The subsidiary's financial liabilities have now surpassed a staggering 20.1 billion rubles ($211,579,032), according to documents revealed during the first...
  • All eyes on tech firms as strict EU digital rules come into effect

    The landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) compels tech companies to better police content to protect European users against disinformation and hate speech. And it also demands the firms are more transparent about their services, algorithms and how ads are targeted. "These systemic platforms play a very, very important role in...