Google launches Pixel 9 phones with advanced AI

New Pixel phones, foldable, watch and earbuds feature Gemini Live for free-flowing conversations with AI bot

Kamala Harris needs to take on Google and other monopolies

The Democratic party has the chance to resurrect the zealous monopoly-busting spirit of its New Deal and Great Society heyday. They must use it

Googling my name became an obsession, every hour of every day – I needed help

It was a thrill to read what people were saying about me. Then I found out that I wasn’t alone. The habit just had to go, says novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech’s disrespect for democracy

An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies, aged 56

Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, had been living with cancer for two years

Social media companies shouldn’t ‘ride free’ on the backs of traditional media, Albanese says

PM’s comments raise expectation of levy on Meta and social media firms amid stoush over paying for news content

A US judge ruled that Google built an illegal monopoly. What happens next?

The ruling found Google broke antitrust laws by making multibillion-dollar deals. Will those agreements evaporate?

Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

LLMs’ ‘reversal curse’ leads it to fail at drawing relationships between simple facts. It’s a problem that could prove fatal

Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules

White House calls decision – that could have major implications for web use – ‘victory for the American people’

Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

Protesters say recently approved tax-free datacentre will ‘provide nothing except toxic waste and greenhouse gases’

Google listed my restaurant’s number as its British HQ

It mistakenly entered all my business details in the search results for ‘How to contact Google in the UK’

UK regulator looks at Google’s partnership with Anthropic

CMA to consider whether deal with AI startup is a potential merger, which could prompt full investigation

TechScape: Will OpenAI’s $5bn gamble on chatbots pay off? Only if you use them

The ChatGPT maker is betting big, while Google hopes its AI tools won’t replace workers, but help them to work better

OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

Prototype, initially launching with select publishers and users, set to challenge Google’s dominance of online search

Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths

Team of two new AI systems score one point short of gold medal in global maths contest for gifted students