A college student was shaken by a threatening response from Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, during a discussion about aging challenges and solutions.

A Florida woman who traveled to Australia to "get into clown school" and was stopped when Australian Border Force officers found a pistol and ammunition in her luggage said Google told her it was "OK."

The number of times people looked up how to retroactively change their vote after casting their ballots increased significantly on election day in November, raising questions about how many people were informed in regards to the decision they were making.

The spike began around 6 a.m. on Election Day, and continued to rise over the course of the day until reaching its peak at midnight Wednesday.

Google has responded to allegations of election interference after social media users, including billionaire Elon Musk, accused the tech company of deliberately making it easier to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris than for former President Donald Trump.

U.S. tech firms are warning Vietnamese authorities over their draft law that could hamper the growth of the data center industry in the country.

Google unveiled a major overhaul of its 20-year-old Google Maps on Thursday, announcing plans to integrate AI technology that has already proven successful in its search engine.

Google faces an unprecedented fine of 2 undecillion rubles in Russia for blocking pro-Kremlin YouTube accounts.

An order to break up Google or require deep changes on how it does business marks a profound change by the US government's competition enforcers that have largely left tech giants alone since failing to break up Microsoft two decades ago.

Google Trend report shows national interest in Laura Loomer has exceeded that of Donald Trump across the U.S.

Regulators in the European Union are looking into Google's Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM2) for possible GDPR infractions. They are concentrating on impact assessments and the processing of personal data.

The court dismissed an appeal by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the fine, slapped on the search engine in 2017 for abusing its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service.

This new battle, also brought by the US Department of Justice, focuses on ad technology - the complex system determining which online ads people see and their cost.

A panel of judges in California ruled that a lower court was wrong to toss the case on the grounds that Chrome users had agreed to Google's privacy policy, and that the lawsuit should head for trial.

Google on Tuesday unveiled new Pixel 9 smartphones, its latest salvo in the scramble by Big Tech to corner the market on nascent artificial intelligence. The Silicon Valley search giant has been racing against Microsoft, OpenAI and others to lead in AI since the 2022 release of ChatGPT ignited intense interest in the technology.

The tech giant said its net income for the recently ended quarter was $23.6 billion on revenue that climbed 14 percent to $84.7 billion when compared to the same period a year earlier.

The prospect of a more welcoming borrowing environment has heavily benefited tech firms, particularly as they have invested massively in AI, seeing it as the next big money-spinner.

The transaction, primarily financed in cash, could be finalized soon.

Online businesses have been left considering layoffs and even site closures after Google's massive upgrade in March and April caused catastrophic drops in traffic.

The government said the cash would support 26,500 jobs across various sectors in Malaysia, including healthcare, education, and finance, and comes days after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim targeted at least $107 billion in investments for the semiconductor industry.

Google has implemented a significant restructuring, resulting in layoffs across unspecified departments.

A hearing is slated for July 30 before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is to decide whether to approve the deal that would let Google avoid a trial in the class-action suit.

Google implements restrictions on Gemini chatbot for election-related queries to combat misinformation.

The European Union in September named six so-called gatekeepers and 22 of their platforms including Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn that must adhere to the rules: Google's Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok parent ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft.

The Chilean government gave a green signal for its announced $200 million Cerrillos Data Center in Santiago back in 2020. However, the data center faced opposition from residents and local officials due to concerns about its potential impact on the capital's water supply.

The firm clarified that, in the context of a test, it had removed the News filter for some users

Microsoft and Google delivered solid corporate earnings on Tuesday as the tech giants said demand for artificial intelligence services stoked revenue.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.

Google on Tuesday confirmed it is eliminating "a few hundred" positions from its global ad team, amid a push to use artificial intelligence for efficiency and creativity.

While Europe, Britain, India and others enforce regulations that at least try to keep big tech in check, Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon have yet to suffer a significant setback on their home turf.