Stock markets tumble amid jitters over tech companies’ growth
Losses in Europe and Asia are driven by AI-related groups including Nvidia, Tesla and Google-owner Alphabet
AI could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims Google
Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by it
Wall Street suffers worst day since 2022 as Tesla and Google earnings disappoint
Tech-focused Nasdaq retreats 3.6% and S&P 500 also down in wake of lacklustre results from big-tech companies
Google parent company’s second-quarter earnings outpace expectations
Alphabet reports $84.7bn in revenue, on back of Search and Cloud, up from the same period last year
Cybersecurity firm Wiz rejects $23bn bid from Google parent Alphabet
Israeli company aims for stock market flotation after spurning biggest deal in tech group’s history
The world is not quite ready for ‘digital workers’
CEO Sarah Franklin got such intense pushback on her company’s plans that she suspended them after three days
Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content
The search engine’s response to the rise of ChatGPT and its ilk is to take an extremely selective approach to what it considers worthy of attention
‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?
For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?
James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’
The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence
Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres
Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?
Powerful new chips are on the way but there are questions over whether tech firm’s growth can be sustained
AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’
The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers
AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London
Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres
Google’s biotech company pulls out of Israel but says Gaza war not the reason
Exclusive: Verily says it is refocusing on core products and cutting costs three years after opening research centers in Haifa and Tel Aviv
