Google to refine AI-generated search summaries in response to bizarre results
After new feature tells people to eat rocks or add glue to pizza sauce, company to restrict which searches return summaries
Google and Apple keeping Reddit and X in app stores despite pornography due to revenue, eSafety boss says
Commissioner says companies have ‘huge disincentive’ to abide by their own policies on adult content amid discussions of age assurance technology
Argentinian president to meet Silicon Valley CEOs in bid to court tech titans
Javier Milei to hold private talks with Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman as Argentina faces worst economic crisis in decades
Google Pixel 8a review: new Android mid-range champion
Top camera, chip, seven years of updates and advanced Google AI tools beats the competition
Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs
AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.com
As the AI world gathers in Seoul, can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety?
Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come
Gaza protesters block entrance to Google conference over Israel contracts
Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company’s ties to Israeli military projects
Google rolls out AI-generated, summarized search results in US
Tech giant also reveals AI assistant in progress, currently called Project Astra, and AI video generator Veo at annual I/O conference
Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain
Harvard researchers teamed up with Google to analyse the makeup of the brain, much of which is not yet understood
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage
Google DeepMind’s ‘leap forward’ in AI could unlock secrets of biology
AlphaFold breakthrough may bolster work in fields from antibiotics and cancer therapy to resilient crops
Google releases new tool to enable Australians to find their personal information and request removal
Exclusive: ‘Results about you’ allows users to see how they show up in search results and then request removal of details such as phone number or address
Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest
Tech giant fired number of people who protested against $1.2bn Project Nimbus, which supports Israeli military and government
Google parent Alphabet hits $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend
Tech company’s shares rise as it plans to reward investors after strong quarterly results