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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Mark Gurman |Julia Love |Davey Alba
By Mark Gurman, Julia Love and Davey Alba May 21, 2025 — 9.41am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As Google officially rolls out an “AI mode” for its search engine in the US, Apple is preparing to open its own artificial intelligence models to third-party app developers, as the tech giant rivals jostle for position in the latest AI arms race.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Julia Love |Curtis Heinzl
Alphabet’s Google announced new features for its two mapping apps, part of the search giant’s ongoing effort to revamp products with its Gemini artificial intelligence models. Users of Google Maps will be able to ask natural-language questions about places on the map and see AI-generated summaries of human-written reviews, the company said in an announcement Thursday. Waze users will be able to verbally report traffic issues on the go, without having to type or use specific commands.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
msn.com | Julia Love |Curtis Heinzl
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Julia Love |Curtis Heinzl
(Bloomberg) -- Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported third-quarter sales that climbed more than analysts expected, helped by robust demand for cloud computing services from companies racing to develop or adopt artificial intelligence. Revenue, excluding partner payouts, increased to $74.6 billion, surpassing the $72.9 billion analysts predicted on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
msn.com | Julia Love
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
irishexaminer.com | Julia Love |Davey Alba
Google now displays convenient artificial intelligence-based answers at the top of its search pages — meaning users may never click through to the websites whose data is being used to power those results. But many site owners say they can’t afford to block Google’s AI from summarising their content. That’s because the Google tool that sifts through web content to come up with its AI answers is the same one that keeps track of web pages for search results, according to publishers.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Julia Love |Davey Alba
The convenient artificial intelligence answers Google now puts at the top of its search results come at steep cost to websites that users would otherwise visit. But many site owners say they can’t afford to block Google’s AI from summarising their content. That’s because the Google tool that sifts through web content to come up with its AI answers is the same one that keeps track of web pages for search results, according to publishers.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Julia Love
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it plans to give people who use its Chrome web browser the option to choose a more privacy-sensitive experience, rather than phasing out cookies, the software that lets marketers track users. In a blog post, the company said it had made the decision after considering the impact that eliminating cookies would have on publishers, advertisers and others involved in the sprawling digital ad business.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Julia Love
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it plans to give people who use its Chrome web browser the option to choose a more privacy-sensitive experience, rather than phasing out cookies, the software that lets marketers track users.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Julia Love
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc. is licensing some technology from its agriculture startup Mineral to berry producer Driscoll’s Inc. as it winds down the nascent firm’s operations. Mineral is one of the most prominent companies to emerge from Alphabet’s moonshot technology lab, X, the birthplace of inventions such as Google Glass and the artificial intelligence hub Google Brain. Last year, Mineral graduated from the lab and became an independent subsidiary of Alphabet.
