Google’s Chrome browser would have many potential buyers if it were spun off, with OpenAI among them, an OpenAI executive told a court Tuesday (April 22). Testifying during a trial that will determine remedies for Google’s dominance of the search market, as required by a...
Last summer, OpenAI approached Google about a partnership to power ChatGPT, but it got turned down. That information came to light Tuesday (April 22) during testimony by Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product for ChatGPT, during the remedy phase of the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Motorola phones that are soon to be released will feature an assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) apps, including those from Perplexity AI, Microsoft and Google, a Google executive reportedly told a court Tuesday (April 22). Testifying in the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google, Peter...
Google is upgrading Workspace, its rival to Microsoft 365, by embedding more artificial intelligence (AI) and other functionality into the platform. Workspace includes Google’s Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, Google Drive, Slides, Calendar and other tools many workers use globally. Here are the Workspace updates Google...
Google reportedly said Friday (April 18) that it will appeal a judge’s ruling announced Thursday (April 17) that the company holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology. The company said the judge delivered a “mixed decision” in which she said the Justice Department failed to...
Google said Wednesday (April 16) that it strengthened its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the ad safety realm to protect consumers and its advertising ecosystem by making more than 50 enhancements to its large language models (LLMs) in 2024. “These updates sped up complex...
Google’s AI-generated search answers have reportedly not been good for independent websites. Those answers, along with Google’s alterations to its search algorithm in support of them, have caused traffic to those websites to plunge, Bloomberg News reported Monday (April 7), citing interviews with 25 publishers...
Google reportedly suspended the account of an advertiser that was placing sponsored Google ads that pretended to offer access to DeepSeek but actually delivered malware. The criminal’s ads that showed up as sponsored Google search results linked to a website that aimed to look like DeepSeek’s but...
Google reportedly reached a preliminary settlement in a 14-year-old class action lawsuit brought by advertisers by agreeing to pay $100 million. The lawsuit began in March 2011 and alleged that Google failed to provide the advertisers with promised discounts and charged them for clicks on...
