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Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed on Wednesday with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15 per cent to 30 per cent commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly. Backed into a legal corner, Google is now prepared to ...
Reliance Industries, Adani, Google, Lightspeed Ventures and Tata are among the top investors that cumulatively made commitment of USD 240 billion investment in India during the India AI Impact Summit 2026, an official statement said on Monday. The number released by the government shows that the India AI Impact Summit 2026, held from Feb 16-21, was the biggest AI event held till date, with approximately 6 lakh attendees in person, delegations from more than 100 countries and 20 international organisations participated in the proceedings. Over USD 200 billion in AI-related investments are expected across infrastructure, foundation models, hardware and applications. The India AI Impact Summit Declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and international organisations. The New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments were announced by 13 leading global and Indian frontier model developers to promote trustworthy and inclusive AI deployment. According to the statement, Reliance Industries pled
Bharti Airtel will deploy its AI-enabled spam protection tool on text messages sent via Google's messaging platform to protect its customers from potential digital fraud, as part of the collaboration between the two firms, the telecom operator said on Sunday. Following the partnership, Bharti Airtel has called out other internet-based apps to work with it to fight against spam messages. "By combining Airtel's network intelligence with Google's Rich Communications Services (RCS) platform and spam filtering, users get to experience RCS messaging with high-quality photo/video and interactive elements like message reactions, all while benefiting from enhanced protections that significantly reduce mobile spam and digital fraud," the statement said. Airtel claims to have blocked a staggering 7,100 crore spam calls and 290 crore spam SMSes that has led to a huge 68.7 per cent decrease in the value of financial losses on its network through its AI enabled tools in the last 1.5 years. Sever
India's biggest AI 'opportunity unlock' is in democratising expertise at scale and advancing scientific frontiers, Pushmeet Kohli, Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind said, citing its transformative potential for 1.4 billion people, from expanding healthcare access to accelerating drug discovery. Kohli told PTI that India has exceptional talent and a strong education system that has produced outstanding researchers and engineers, many of whom are contributing to core AI development. He noted that Google DeepMind's Bengaluru lab has made fundamental contributions to foundational models and their applications of AI across critical sectors. Indian talent, he said, will play a vital role not only in advancing core machine learning and AI technologies but also in applying them to areas such as agriculture, healthcare and social systems. Describing the current moment in AI as "amazing", he said the focus has now shifted firmly to impact. Kohli, a distinguished scientist and sen