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Google Sales Accelerate as Ad, Cloud Businesses Hold Up Amid Costly AI Push
Parent company Alphabet reported $80.5 billion in first-quarter revenue, an increase of 15% from the same period last year.The Wall Street Journal - Business - Google -
Google Delays Cookie Phase-Out Following Regulatory Pushback
The move has major ramifications for the $600 billion online ad industry.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google -
OpenAI, Meta and Google Sign On to New Child Exploitation Safety Measures
AI developers say they will work to throttle the creation of sexualized images of children.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google -
Google fired at least 20 additional workers after last week's Gaza protest, group says
The group that led protests last week at Google over a cloud computing contract with Israel said more Google workers were fired, bringing the total to more than 50.Los Angeles Times - Entertainment - Google -
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Tech's earnings bonanza this week shines spotlight on growing troubles at Tesla, Google
This quarter's earnings reports from the U.S. tech giants coincide with a mountain of drama that the companies are facing.CNBC - Business - Google -
Alphabet earnings should show AI boosts, but Google still faces many clouds
Contrasting opinions highlight a divergent storyline as Alphabet Inc. nears its first-quarter report on Thursday.MarketWatch - Business - Google -
Google Delays Cookie Phase-Out Following Regulatory Pushback
The move has major ramifications for the $600 billion online ad industry.The Wall Street Journal - World - Google -
Google’s new technique gives LLMs infinite context
Experiments reported by the Google research team indicate that models using Infini-attention can maintain their quality over one million tokens without requiring additional memory.VentureBeat - Tech - Google -
Google’s RecurrentGemma brings advanced language AI to edge devices
RecurrentGemma model reduces hardware requirements, enabling real-time text processing for edge, IoT and smartphones.VentureBeat - Tech - Google -
Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit
Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser’s incognito mode. Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Google's New Privacy Plan Has Flaws, Regulator Says in Internal Documents
The Information Commissioner’s Office said in a draft report that Google’s proposed replacements for cookies have gaps that advertisers can exploit.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google -
Epic Games proposes Play Store fixes following Google verdict
Epic Games has submitted an injunction as part of its legal case against Google outlining how the latter should allow third-party app stores.VentureBeat - Tech - Google -
AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models
Launches within 12 hours of one another, and more activity expected in industry over summer. OpenAI, Google, and the French artificial intelligence startup Mistral have all released new versions of their frontier AI models within 12 hours of one ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Google considering charge for internet searches with AI, reports say
Cost of artificial intelligence service could mean leaders in sector turning to subscription models. Google is reportedly drawing up plans to charge for AI-enhanced search features, in what would be the biggest shake-up to the company’s revenue ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information
Report claims posts on abortion and contraception have been deleted while misinformation on the feeds of social media users in Africa, Latin America and Asia has not been tackled. Meta and Google are accused in a new report of obstructing ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Google considers charging customers to use new AI powered search tools: report
The plans would see Google put search engine features behind a paywall for the first time in its 25-year historyMarketWatch - Business - Google -
Google says it will miss target for ending third-party cookies
Google said Tuesday that it will no longer be able to complete its phaseout of third-party cookies by the end of 2024. “We recognize that there are ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Google lays off more employees, will move some jobs overseas as part of continuing cost cuts
Google announced a new round of layoffs Wednesday, and said it will move some jobs overseas.MarketWatch - Business - Google -
Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief, say federal prosecutors.
The Linwei Ding case illustrates what U.S. officials say is an ongoing nightmare: Google and other top U.S. tech firms have had their pockets picked by China.NBC News - Top stories - Google -
Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel
An activist group says Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza warABC News - Top stories - Google -
AI companies including OpenAI, Meta and Google agreed to incorporate new measures to protect children from exploitation and plug holes in their existing defenses.
AI companies including OpenAI, Meta and Google agreed to incorporate new measures to protect children from exploitation and plug holes in their existing defenses.The Wall Street Journal - World - Google -
Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over "groundless" reviews
A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false commentsABC News - Tech - Google -
Google is combining its Android software and Pixel hardware divisions to more broadly integrate AI
Google says it will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit wearablesABC News - Tech - Google -
Google restructures finance team as part of AI shift, CFO tells employees in memo
Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat wrote to employees that the finance teams would be restructured, a move that will include relocations and layoffs.CNBC - Business - Google -
Google global affairs chief says global alignment on AI ‘going surprisingly well’
Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs, said Wednesday that global alignment on how to govern artificial intelligence (AI) has gone “surprisingly well” as regulators race to keep up with the rapidly advancing technology. "I would say ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here's why they remain so alluring
A bespoke globe in the age of Google EarthABC News - Top stories - Google -
Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3
Tech firm released early versions of its latest large language model and a real-time image generator as it tries to catch up to OpenAI. Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.The New York Times - Tech - Google -
If costs force Google to charge for AI, competitors will cheer
AI is not only scarily expensive to run, it is also antithetical to the advertising that is Google’s bread and butter. Google considering charge for internet searches with AI, reports sayGoogle search prints money. Generative AI burns money. What ...The Guardian - World - Google -
Google fires more workers after protests against contract with Israel
Google has fired more than 20 additional workers following last week’s protests over the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, the group that organized the protests said Monday night. The latest firings bring the ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Google CEO Pichai Calls for Reset After Activist Firings
The tech giant fired over two dozen employees following sit-in protests at its offices in New York and California over its cloud-computing deal with Israel.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google -
Google fires employees who protested Israel contract
Google fired 28 employees Wednesday who protested the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Protesters staged sit-ins Tuesday at two Google offices — New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif. — in protest of the $1.2 billion ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Google employees protest company's work with Israeli government
Google employees in two different offices protested the company’s work with the Israeli government on Tuesday, objecting to a billion-dollar contract it signed with the U.S. ally in 2021. The protestors organized sit-ins in two locations, one in ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Google agrees to destroy private browsing data
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Google agrees to destroy private browsing data Google has agreed to destroy “billions of data records” collected during private browsing sessions to settle a ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Google agrees to destroy private browsing data to settle class-action lawsuit
Google has agreed to destroy “billions of data records” collected during private browsing sessions to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking people who thought they were browsing the internet privately. ...The Hill - Politics - Google -
Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here's why they remain so alluring
A bespoke globe in the age of Google EarthABC News - Tech - Google -
Former Google DeepMind researchers launch AI-powered music creation app Udio
Former Google DeepMind researchers launch Udio, an AI-powered music creation app that challenges Suno V3 and Stable Audio 2.0 in the rapidly evolving text-to-music generation market.VentureBeat - Tech - Google -
Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google search head Prabhakar Raghavan told employees that the world is changing and they have to adjust.CNBC - Business - Google -
Google's New Privacy Plan Has Flaws, Regulator Says in Internal Documents
The Information Commissioner’s Office said in a draft report that Google’s proposed replacements for cookies have gaps that advertisers can exploit.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google -
Google Parent Alphabet Looks to Continue Revenue Growth
The search giant has reported four straight quarters of accelerating sales growth and been investing in artificial-intelligence technology. Still, Google’s advertising sales last quarter fell short of expectations.The Wall Street Journal - World - Google -
Google's New Privacy Plan Has Flaws, Regulator Says in Internal Documents
The Information Commissioner’s Office said in a draft report that Google’s proposed replacements for cookies have gaps that advertisers can exploit.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Google