Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history

Tech firm earlier committed to storing less data about individuals in response to privacy concerns

OpenAI and Google DeepMind workers warn of AI industry risks in open letter

Current and former workers sign letter warning of lack of safety oversight and calling for more protections for whistleblowers

Opponents of bills argue ‘offramp’ to keep gas or coal plants running will be triggered if energy-heavy centers are built

The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wild

After new feature tells people to eat rocks or add glue to pizza sauce, company to restrict which searches return summaries

Commissioner says companies have ‘huge disincentive’ to abide by their own policies on adult content amid discussions of age assurance technology

Javier Milei to hold private talks with Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman as Argentina faces worst economic crisis in decades

Top camera, chip, seven years of updates and advanced Google AI tools beats the competition

Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact

AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.com

Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come

Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company’s ties to Israeli military projects

Tech giant also reveals AI assistant in progress, currently called Project Astra, and AI video generator Veo at annual I/O conference

Harvard researchers teamed up with Google to analyse the makeup of the brain, much of which is not yet understood

Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage