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OpenAI Tests Search Engine Prototype Called ‘SearchGPT’

Google's dominance of online search is being challenged, after OpenAI unveiled a search prototype tool called SearchGPT

11 hours ago

Google Cancels Plan To Axe Third Party Cookies For Chrome Browser

Better switch to Firefox? After years of delays, Google performs u-turn and will no longer cancel third-party tracking cookies

2 days ago

OpenAI Signs Content Agreement With Time

OpenAI signs “strategic content partnership” with Time to access current and archive content from last 101 years

4 weeks ago

Japan Passes Law To Allow Third Party App Stores, Payments

Copy of EU's DMA? Japan passes law that will require Apple and Google to open up their respective ecosystems

1 month ago

Alphabet Names Anat Ashkenazi As CFO

Anat Ashkenazi swaps CFO role in pharmaceutical industry to join Alphabet, replacing outgoing CFO Ruth Porat

2 months ago

Google Staff Question Layoffs After Record Earnings

Staff at Google question CEO Sundar Pichai over 'significant decline' in workforce morale amid ongoing job cuts, despite strong financials

3 months ago

OpenAI To Announce Google Search Competitor Next Week – Report

Google's search domination to be challenged next week, with OpenAI reportedly set to announce its own AI search product

3 months ago

Google Delays Removal Of Third-Party Cookies, Again

For third time Google delays phase-out of third-party Chrome cookies after pushback from industry and British regulator

3 months ago

Google Begins Removal Of California News Ahead Of Proposed Law

Consequences of Assembly Bill 886. Google begins removing California news websites from some search results

3 months ago

Google To Destroy Billions Of Private Browsing Records

Lawsuit settlement. Google agrees to destroy billions of private or “incognito” mode records as part of lawsuit settlement

4 months ago

Alphabet’s Ad Revenue Miss Punished By Investors

Another tech industry bellweather, Alphabet, delivers strong Q4 and FY23 financials, yet investors not happy at ad revenue miss

6 months ago

Microsoft Profit Rises 33 Percent Thanks To AI, Cloud

Strong AI adoption and cloud helps Microsoft deliver another strong quarterly performance, amid $3 trillion valuation

6 months ago

Netflix Subscribers Surge Amid Password Crackdown

Saturated streaming market? Netflix pleases investors by recording notable rise in paid subscribers, on top of strong Q4 financials

6 months ago

Google To Invest $1 Billion To Build UK Data Centre

New data centre for Alphabet's Google to be constructed in Hertfordshire to meet demand for AI and cloud services

6 months ago

Google CEO Warns Staff To Expect More Job Cuts – Report

Internal memo from CEO Sundar Pichai warns Google staff to brace for more job cuts, as the firm has to…

6 months ago

Google Axes Hundreds Of Staff In Ad Sales Team

More job loss misery at Google, after it confirmed hundreds of job losses in ad sales team, after 1,000 layoffs…

6 months ago

Amazon Cuts Staff In Audible, Prime Video and MGM Studio Divisions

Bad week this week for staff at Amazon divisions, with job losses at Twitch, Prime Video, MGM Studies, and Audible…

7 months ago

Twitch To Lay Off 35 Percent Of Staff – Report

Amazon-owned Twitch is handing a sizeable portion of its workforce the worst news in early 2024 by axing their jobs

7 months ago

Microsoft To Add Copilot Key To Windows PC Keyboards

Microsoft is to add a Copilot key on future keyboards for Windows PCs, in first major keyboard change in 30…

7 months ago

Google, Meta, TikTok Russian Debts Removed From Bailiff Database – Report

Debts allegedly 'owed' by Google, Meta and TikTok to the Russian government have been removed from state bailiff database

7 months ago

Google Settles $5bn Web Tracking Lawsuit

Settlement not disclosed after Google ends web tracking lawsuit with Chrome browser in “private” or “incognito” mode

7 months ago

Amazon Prime Video To Carry Ads In UK From 5 February

Adverts will start appearing for UK users of Amazon Video Prime on 5 February 2024, unless extra fee is paid

7 months ago

Toshiba Delisted From Toyko Stock Exchange After 74 Years

End of an era for Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, as it undergoes transition into private ownership after years of upheaval

7 months ago

Apple, Paramount Discuss Bundling Streaming Service Offer – Report

Streaming tie-up? Discussions reportedly between Apple and Paramount discuss bundling respective streaming services

8 months ago

UK’s CMA Wins Appeal To Investigate Apple

Apple's mobile browser and cloud gaming services will be investigated after the CMA won an appeal on Thursday

8 months ago

Google Agrees To Pay Canadian News Publishers

Agreement with Canadian government will see Google pay local news publishers $73 million a year. Meta dispute however, continues

8 months ago

YouTube Denies Slowing Down Mozilla Firefox

Alphabet's YouTube insists it is not slowing down Firefox, after complaints videos are taking extra long to load on the…

8 months ago

US Wraps Up Landmark Antitrust Case Against Google

Government wraps up its evidentiary phase of landmark antitrust case against Alphabet's Google, but closing arguments may come in 2024

8 months ago

Alphabet Pays Apple 36 Percent Of Safari Search Revenue

CEO Sundar Pichai confirms Google pays Apple 36 percent of Safari search revenue, as part of its default search agreement

8 months ago