Google staffers locked in escalating squabble over $1.2B Israel contract
Google staffers are locked in an escalating office squabble over the search giant’s business ties with Israel, which include a
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Google paid Activision-Blizzard $360M to use its app store, Epic Games claims
Google gave “Call of Duty” parent Activision-Blizzard a whopping $360 million in incentives in 2020 to launch its video game
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Apple, PayPal could face bank-like supervision under federal watchdog’s proposal
The top US consumer financial watchdog on Tuesday proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying
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Google slammed for ‘bribe and block’ tactics as app store antitrust trial kicks off
“Fortnite” maker Epic Games accused Google of using a two-pronged “bribe and block” scheme to stifle competition to its Play
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Google’s ‘Bard’ chatbot rips ‘monopoly power’ of search giant, says DOJ ‘should prevail’ in antitrust trial
Google’s own “Bard” AI chatbot says the US Justice Department has a winning case in the landmark antitrust trial against
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Tech expert warns Gen Z’s top news source being ‘actively manipulated by our enemy’
As China increasingly grows as a U.S. adversary versus ally, one tech expert sounded a “five-alarm fire” about how Chinese-owned TikTok is
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Google developer nixes plan to build 15K homes in San Francisco Bay Area over ‘market conditions’
The developer set to convert the area surrounding Google’s San Francisco headquarters into a 15,000-house residential campus complete with office
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Elon Musk says xAI to release first model: ‘Best that currently exists’
Elon Musk teased the release of his artificial intelligence startup xAI’s first tool on Friday – even as the freewheeling
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AI chatbots creating ‘plagiarism stew’ as they crib news content, trade group says
Artificial intelligence-backed chatbots like ChatGPT are creating “plagiarism stew” — responding to queries with “paraphrasing or outright repetition” of text
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai grilled over company’s deleted chat logs at antitrust trial
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was grilled Monday about the company’s attempts to keep internal chat logs private during his widely
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