Yelp, a long-time rival of Google, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, accusing it of engaging in anticompetitive practices in the local search market.
Sen. Eric Schmitt sent a letter to Facebook and Google, demanding to know their policies on censoring free speech before the 2024 election.
Yoshua Bengio, one of the “Godfathers of AI,” worries that regulators may be running out of time to properly govern the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence.
Google sales representatives have been accused of providing ad buyers with tips on how to target teenage users, despite the company’s policy prohibiting targeted advertising to users under the age of 18, according to a report from Adweek.
California lawmakers have announced a deal that will kill a bill that would have forced tech giants like Google and Facebook to pay news organizations for their content. In exchange, the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe will commit $250 million to fund newsrooms and an “AI accelerator.”
Elon Musk used an X post on Tuesday to mock technology companies that are too woke to allow users to have an authentic looking gun emoji.
The cozy relationship between the Kamala Harris campaign and Big Tech giants including Google have sparked concerns about potential leniency in antitrust cases if she is elected president.
Driverless cars stationed in a San Francisco parking lot created a traffic jam at 4:00 a.m. and began honking at each other, waking up local residents. Many report the pre-dawn traffic snarl is a regular occurrence for the driverless cars.
Former Google CEO and noted leftist Eric Schmidt’s recent comments at Stanford University have ignited a firestorm of discussion about the future of AI and the ethics of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
In the wake of a recent court decision that found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing the online search market, the DOJ is weighing options to restore competition, including a potential breakup of the tech giant.
Matt Gaetz and Mike Lee plan to hold Google accountable should it try to avoid a court-ordered remedy to address its monopolistic status.
The 2024 Summer Olympics have been inundated with advertisements from tech giants touting their latest AI tools, but their tone-deaf approach has left viewers unimpressed and concerned.
The former CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, died on Friday at the age of 56, following a two-year battle with lung cancer.
Tech giants Google and Meta reportedly collaborated on a marketing project designed to target YouTube users aged 13 to 17 with advertisements promoting Instagram, skirting Google’s own rules for how minors are treated online.
Despite recent policy updates, Google Search continues to display promoted results for “nudify” AI apps that generate nonconsensual deepfake porn, raising concerns about the tech giant’s ability to combat harmful AI-powered content.
In a recent interview, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski says that his platform has left markets including Russia, France, and Brazil because the governments are attempting to censor free speech. Meanwhile, competitors including Google’s YouTube go along with countries intent on silencing free speech.
In a landmark ruling, Judge Amit Mehta declared Google a monopolist that has maintained its dominance through illegal practices, marking the most significant antitrust victory since the Microsoft case in the 1990s. The decision could have massive implications for not only Google, but other tech titans including Apple and Microsoft.
Google has lost an antitrust lawsuit over its search arrangements on smartphone devices, with a federal judge ruling that the tech giant has illegally held a monopoly in search and text advertising over the past decade.
Despite heavy investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations for translating AI spending into significant sales growth.
A new academic study has found that popular AI language models, including ChatGPT and Google Gemini, consistently display left-leaning political preferences when subjected to various political orientation tests.
Meta’s AI assistant and Google’s search autocomplete feature have come under scrutiny for providing inaccurate information related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. While Google claims it is trying to improve its feature, Meta has a different excuse for covering up the assassination attempt — its AI was “hallucinating.”
A recent Google advertisement debuted during the Olympics and featuring AI writing a personal letter has ignited a heated debate about the appropriate use of technology in human communication and creativity.
Donald Trump blasted Facebook and Google after both tech giants were caught trying to cover up the July 13 assassination attempt against him.
Tech giant Google has addressed concerns raised by prominent conservatives regarding its search autocomplete function, particularly its censorship of searches related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The masters of the universe claims they are “working on improvements” including the autocomplete function.
Facebook has acknowledged an alleged “mistake” in censoring an iconic image of former President Donald Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, sparking renewed debate over social media content moderation practices. Meta labeled the famous photo as an “altered image,” only later admitting it was a “mistake.”
A 76-year-old pro-life activist from Florida has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging the tech giant violated state law by abruptly shutting down her account without warning or allowing her to save her data.
Google has hidden autocomplete suggestions related to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. By removing autocomplete suggestions, the Masters of the World are trying to make it more difficult for users to access information about the attempt on Trump’s life. This is just the latest act of election interference by the internet giant.
The artificial intelligence boom that revitalized US tech stocks in 2023 is now facing scrutiny as investors question the sustainability of AI-driven market gains.
Chris “Ava Kris” Tyson, a transgender sidekick of YouTube superstar MrBeast, who is especially popular amongst children and teenagers, is at the center of controversy following allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a minor and grooming.
Cybersecurity start-up Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, choosing instead to pursue an initial public offering (IPO). The acquisition would have been Google’s largest in the history of the internet giant.
Apple has initiated a global advertising campaign highlighting the privacy advantages of its Safari browser over Google Chrome, escalating the browser war between the two tech giants.
Despite the excitement surrounding artificial intelligence in tech hubs like San Francisco, the global business landscape shows a stark contrast in AI adoption and impact, according to a report by the Economist.
In a rare display of unity, prominent tech CEOs and billionaires from across the political spectrum have spoken out following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Saturday rally.
Police arrested a NYT best-selling author on Wednesday in New Hampshire on child porn charges after an investigation was launched in March.
A driverless Waymo vehicle was pulled over by police last month in Phoenix, Arizona, and the moment was caught on camera.
Apple is reportedly preparing to announce the integration of Google’s woke Gemini AI into iPhones at its annual September event, according to industry insider Mark Gurman of Bloomberg.
Privacy-focused email and VPN company Proton has unveiled Proton Docs, a privacy-focused document editor that aims to provide users with a secure alternative to Google Docs.
Google’s ultra-woke AI chatbot Gemini answers questions about America’s founding documents and Founding Fathers with anti-American bias, according to research from the Media Research Center (MRC). When asked “Should Americans celebrate the Fourth of July holiday?” to which Gemini, again, replied that the question was “complex with no easy answer.”
Google’s pursuit of AI has led to a massive increase in its greenhouse gas emissions, according to the company’s latest environmental report. Google has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2030, but emissions have actually surged by 50 percent over the past five years.
Google is up to its regular election tricks, according to the Media Research Center. An MRC investigation found that when searching for a candidates name with “presidential race 2024,” Joe Biden’s campaign website is the top result, while Donald Trump’s campaign website doesn’t appear on the first page.
