‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – including during Friday’s planned ‘economic blackout’
My dad died a year ago – and a photo of him on Google Street View brought me up short A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger, writes Adrian Chiles
Elon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies Billionaire CEO claims bot is ‘maximally truth-seeking’ as he looks to rival DeepSeek, OpenAI and Google Gemini
US and UK out of step with rest of the world on AI Why the Paris summit on artificial intelligence failed and how Silicon Valley is toeing the Trump administration’s line
Rogue states could use AI to do ‘real harm’, warns ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt fears terrorist groups or countries such as North Korea, Iran or Russia may use AI to develop weapons
Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting Exclusive: Google executives gave employees details on dropping the company’s promise against weaponized AI and nixing diversity goals
How Musk and Trump are flooding the zone Musk raids a dizzying swath of agencies with the goal of ‘slashing waste and fraud’ as the two deploy brinkmanship
Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney This weekend the mapping platform turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story
Call to make tech firms report data centre energy use as AI booms Experts say mandatory reporting on energy and water use is needed to avoid irreparable damage to environment
Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information Tech company removes error about gouda cheese after blogger points out ‘unequivocally’ untrue statistic
US immigration is creating a mirage of mass deportations on Google search Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
Google scraps diversity hiring goals and cites Trump’s DEI orders Firm rolls back plan to hire more from underrepresented groups and said it was reviewing some of its DEI initiatives
Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’
Google parent Alphabet’s revenues disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition Revenue slowdown reflects ‘challenging year’ firm has had and 2025 may be year it loses competitive edge, say analysts
Teacher hails ‘small win’ as Google Maps to remove UK and Irish school reviews Google says move is to prevent ‘unhelpful or prank reviews’, after petition by Merseyside deputy headteacher