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Alphabet, the owner of Google, has launched an artificial intelligence agent capable of answering real-time questions across audio, video and text. The move is part of several initiatives to demonstrate Alphabet's AI prowess and dispel…

Google DeepMind unveiled a model of artificial intelligence that explains the interactions of cells and life's building block. This will help unlock disease secrets and develop treatments for cancer and other diseases. AlphaFold 3 is the…

Apple's new iPads feature what the company calls "an insanely powerful chip for AI", a sign of its growing focus on artificial-intelligence services. Just months after introducing the M3 chip with new Macs, the company announced the "M4"…

Apple has hired dozens of Google artificial intelligence experts and created a secret European laboratory in Zurich. The tech giant is building a team that will compete with rivals to develop new AI models and product. A recent analysis…

Alphabet announced a 15 percent increase in revenue for its first quarter. It also announced its first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, along with a $70 billion stock buyback. This was boosted by an increase in earnings across all its…

As a result of growing concerns about the potential weaponisation of this technology by foreign militaries, the government is taking action against exports to foreign buyers. Exporters are prohibited from selling powerful Quantum…

Sundar Pichai grew angry. Google's much-heralded artificial intelligence bot Gemini had been launched in a disastrous and public manner, turning an opportunity for glory into a humiliation. Alphabet’s longtime CEO sent a memo last week to…

Alphabet disappointed its investors when holiday advertising sales fell below expectations. This overshadowed the company's efforts to develop artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Google, the owner of YouTube and Google, fell…

Apple executive claims that new EU digital regulations are going to make it harder for users of Apple products, and put them at risk of security threats. Apple's App Store head Phil Schiller said on Thursday that the new Digital Markets…

Publishers complain that Google's dominance of internet search has put them "between rock and hard place" when it comes to using their copyrighted work as the basis for its artificial intelligence models. They claim that Google has a…

Apple will face a legal reckoning by 2024. A series of regulatory decisions made by US and EU authorities in the next few months will determine the future for its $85bn services business. Apple's biggest blow could be a US antitrust case…

Google agreed to pay C$100mn per year to a fund that supports news organizations in Canada, as part of an agreement with the Canadian government. This ended a dispute which led Google to threaten to remove links to news on its services.…

Google DeepMind researchers discovered 2.2mn new crystal structures, which could lead to advancements in renewable energy and advanced computation. They also show how artificial intelligence can be used to discover new materials. According…

S4 Capital, owned by Sir Martin Sorrell, has seen its sales fall 15pc as the slowdown in advertising intensified. Digital ad agency reported that revenues for the third quarter dropped to £211.5m, as clients cut back on spending.…

Sundar Pichai admitted that agreements allowing Google's search engine to be the default for smartphones and web browsers could be "very valuable" as Alphabet CEO took the witness stand at the largest monopoly case in 25 years. Pichai…

Regulators around the globe are faced with a tough choice as they try to deal with the unfair competition in cloud computing. To open the cloud market, more detailed intervention will be required than in other tech markets. This includes…

Google wants to take on Apple Inc. with its new Pixel phones, which are more iPhone like than ever. The Pixel 8 Pro and 8 are priced similarly to Apple's equivalents. They also have screens with flat edges and the ability to make payments…

Microsoft's chief executive Satya Nadella has called the idea of users having a choice in search engines for the internet "bogus", because contracts make Google the default on mobile devices. Nadella, in his testimony at an antitrust…