Julia Love

AI startup Perplexity made a formal offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, an audacious bid to get ahead of a potential requirement for the search giant to sell the web browser in US antitrust proceedings.

Das KI-Startup Perplexity hat offiziell angeboten, den Google-Browser Chrome für 34,5 Milliarden Dollar zu übernehmen – ein kühner Versuch, dem möglichen Zwangsverkauf des Browsers in einem US-Kartellverfahren zuvorzukommen.

Alphabet Inc.’s Sundar Pichai said his company will keep expanding its engineering ranks at least into 2026, stressing human talent remains key even as Google’s parent ramps up AI investments.

A venture capital fund with links to Alphabet Inc.’s famed moonshot factory, X, has raised hundreds of millions to invest in the companies that spin off from the lab, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Company drew “hard red line” around requiring web publishers to participate in AI search, document says

Google’s ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.’s efforts to keep its edge in digital advertising as generative artificial intelligence takes off.

Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car firm, Waymo, said it will begin transporting passengers in a handful of cities near its Mountain View, California, headquarters.

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google told employees that it will no longer formally seek to improve the diversity of its workforce, marking the latest step in Silicon Valley’s retreat from initiatives that have fallen out of favor during US President Donald Trump’s administration.

Perplexity AI submitted a bid to TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd., to merge with its US operations and create a new entity, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

“It’s a lot of just trying to mitigate harm.”

Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced new features for its two mapping apps, part of the search giant’s ongoing effort to revamp products with its Gemini artificial intelligence models.

Google parent Alphabet Inc. showed on Tuesday that an expensive foray into artificial intelligence is starting to pay off, delivering better-than-expected traction for its cloud computing business and driving more usage for its flagship search engine.

Elon Musk’s online rhetoric is boosting Trump’s plans to deport migrants and laying the groundwork to dispute the US election results.

A Nobel Prize raises some questions about the spirit of research at Google. But first...

Product had created historically inaccurate scenes, causing company to halt it.

A test account was shown videos about Glock switches, 3D gun printing and homemade silencers

Online review site Yelp Inc. filed a lawsuit alleging that Google has illegal monopoly power in local search, in a sign of the legal headaches that may await the search giant following the US government’s landmark antitrust victory against the company.

Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. had one job heading into this earnings season: show that the billions of dollars they’ve each sunk into the infrastructure propelling the artificial intelligence boom is translating into real sales.