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Microsoft extends cloud lead over Alphabet, focuses on OpenAI, big clients

Gains in the shares of Microsoft were set to add about $90 billion to its market capitalization.

YouTube to recommend videos from credible sources in coming months

Google-owned YouTube will list credible news sources on a "Watch Page" which it will roll out in the coming months in India, a senior company official said on Thursday. "Today, I am thrilled to introduce 'Watch Page' for news... the Watch Page will recommend videos available from credible sources," YouTube India, head of government affairs and Public Policy, Mira Chatt said at the Google for India event here. She said that the Watch Page will be rolled out in coming months in India. Recently, the government asked YouTube to identify fake news channels on its platform. Sources, however, said that the government has not defined "fake news" in its communication to YouTube. Chatt said the platform removed more than 2 million videos in India between April and June, 2023 that were violating its policies.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai set to testify in Google Play antitrust trial

Pichai is also scheduled to testify in coming weeks in the ongoing Washington trial in a suit brought by the US Justice Department accusing Alphabet of maintaining a monopoly in web search

Tech leaders discuss artificial intelligence policy in senate meeting

The meeting, which was organised by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer included personalities with diverging views on how to write the rules for AI

Google parent Alphabet fires hundreds from global recruitment team

Firm cut about 12,000 jobs in January, reducing workforce by 6%

AI 'ghost' staff: US lawmakers probe Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta

Along with the established tech giants, the letter's recipients include the newer AI-focused firms OpenAI, Inflection AI, Scale AI and Anthropic

After US, Google introduces generative AI to search in India, Japan

The feature, which was first launched only in the United States, was rolled out this week in the two countries, and users will have the choice to opt in for it

Alphabet's rapidly expanding $118 billion cash pile poses a new problem

Apple in the last five fiscal years has returned almost $5 billion more than the record $454 billion in cash it generated

AI's promise on tech set for test with Microsoft, Alphabet Earnings

Bets that artificial intelligence will revolutionise Corporate America and deliver riches to the biggest companies behind it will get a test Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc

Google veteran Urs Hölzle steps down as manager in cloud shakeup: Report

Urs Hölzle joined the company, now the key unit of parent Alphabet Inc., in 1999 as its eighth employee, and will now transition into a role as a Google Fellow, the company said

Google reportedly cancels 'Project Iris' augmented reality smart glasses

Google is no longer focusing on developing its own hardware for extended reality devices. Instead, the company is developing a software platform called 'micro XR'

Google backs creation of cybersecurity clinics with $20 mn donation: Pichai

Free medical clinics and legal aid clinics, where college students and their instructors help their communities while also learning more about their professions, are now commonplace. Google hopes to add cybersecurity clinics to that list. Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledged USD 20 million in donations on Thursday to support and expand the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics to introduce thousands of students to potential careers in cybersecurity, while also helping defend small government offices, rural hospitals and nonprofits from hacking. Pichai said the new initiative addresses both the rising number of cyberattacks up 38 per cent globally in 2022 and the lack of candidates trained to stop them. Just as technology can create new threats, it can also help us fight them, Pichai said, announcing the commitment at Google's Washington offices. Security was critical to the work I did early in my Google career, including when we built our Chrome browser. Today, it's core to everything w

Google rolling out 'Help me write' tool to Gmail for Android, iOS

Users can also choose to 'Replace' the existing information with the new response that will be generated as a result

Google Lens rolls out new feature to help users find skin conditions

In the coming weeks, users will be able to include images in their Bard prompts and Lens will work behind the scenes to help Bard make sense of what's being shown

EU asks Google to sell part of ad biz to address competition concerns

European Union antitrust regulators took aim at Google's lucrative digital advertising business in an unprecedented decision ordering the tech giant to sell off some of its ad business to address competition concerns. The European Commission, the bloc's executive branch and top antitrust enforcer, said that its preliminary view after an investigation is that only the mandatory divestment by Google of part of its services would satisfy the concerns. The 27-nation EU has led the global movement to crack down on Big Tech companies but it has previously relied on issuing blockbuster fines, including three antitrust penalties for Google worth billion of euros (dollars). It's the first time the bloc has ordered a tech giant to split up keys of business. Google can now defend itself by making its case before the commission issues its final decision. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The commission's decision stems from a formal investigation that it opened

Google leads $36 million funding round for Indian space startup Pixxel

Pixxel, founded in 2019, is building a constellation of satellites that have the ability to identify mineral deposits or the productivity of crops by analysing the spectral signature of an image

Google ends support for first-generation Chromecast from 2013: Report

Moreover, the report mentioned that the tech giant followed the Chromecast with a second-generation model two years later that was puck-shaped

Tata Group only Indian firm in BCG list of top 50 most innovative firms

Tata Group was placed in the twentieth spot in the list of most innovative companies in the world

Google launches Workspace Individual plan in 20 new countries: Report

The company said it will purge the content in inactive accounts within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos

Google to delete all personal accounts that have been inactive for 2 years

Google's internal analysis shows that abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up