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Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba. “Hey Google, how many Jews were killed by the Nazis?” Instagram user Michael Apfel asks a Google Nest virtual as...

Google's earnings are reported quarterly by its parent company, Alphabet. Learn about the company's financial history and revenue sources.

Childhood friends and former colleagues Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis now work for Big Tech's oldest rivals amid an escalating AI arms race.

Google faces several major monopoly lawsuits. Read about the antitrust cases plus Google's class-action settlements over browsing data and privacy.

"We have a shot of actually dominating the world for the next 10 or 20 years if we do it right," Google's former CEO said.

An investor at famed Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz is the latest VC to get involved in the debate around "fake work" in the tech industry.In an interview published Monday with Emily Sundberg for her Substack newsletter "Feed Me," Andreessen Horowitz general partner David Ulevitch called Google "an amazing ...

Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt has an extensive real estate portfolio, but his Atherton mansion was his primary home for decades.

Google paid a whopping $20 billion to Apple in 2022 alone to be the default search engine on its Safari web browser, according to unredacted documents that surfaced on the eve of closing arguments Thursday that will wrap up the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust trial. The massive sum appeared in unsealed testi...

Google's stock outperformance raises compensation for two executives by $23 million and by $35 million for two others.

At least 36 Google staff with AI expertise have joined Apple since 2018, according to a Financial Times analysis of LinkedIn profiles.

Alphabet's blockbuster first-quarter earnings and first dividend sent its stock soaring and come as a much-needed win for the Google owner's CEO.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are set to open higher after both Alphabet and Microsoft posted strong first-quarter earnings reports.

Google search chief Prabhakar Raghavan warned staff to brace for a new chapter as rivals such as Perplexity AI seek to challenge its dominance.

Today — on Earth Day — non-profit search engine Ecosia has launched the “greenest browser on Earth” as it seeks to offer customers a more sustainable alternative to Google Chrome or Apple’s Safari.  Just like Ecosia’s search engine, the more you use the browser, the more trees you will help plant. The Berlin-based company says it has already planted 200 million trees since 2009. ...

Several teams across Google's finance and real estate units have been affected, according to two current employees, who said staff had been informed of the cuts this week. One said that the affected teams in finance include Google's Treasury, Business Services, and Revenue Cash Operations teams.It's unclear if other...

If you think you've been seeing an awful lot more Reddit results lately when you search on Google, you're not imagining things.The internet is in upheaval, and for website owners the rules of "winning" Google Search have never been murkier.Coming from the other direction is an influx of posts from Reddit, Quora, and...

Two tribal nations brought lawsuits this week against social-media companies, saying they are worsening the mental health crisis among Native youth.

Drawing level with OpenAI's Sora text-to-video generator may be tough, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told a colleague, The Information reported.

DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said the surge in funding for AI "brings with it a whole attendant bunch of hype and maybe some grifting."

Some high-profile names in Silicon Valley have been making personal appeals in a bid to attract or retain top AI talent.

Emi Kolawole, a project leader at Google's Moonshot factory X, left recently as the company shifts focus.