The UK closed its long-standing investigations into Apple and Google’s “mobile app ecosystems,” without any action. In 2021, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation into the terms and conditions of Apple’s app store on its iOS and iPad devices. A year later, they launched an inquiry into Google’s distribution of apps on its Android devices and Play Store rules. In both cases, the CMA said it was worried the terms and conditions limited choices for developers leading to “higher prices and reduced choice” for users. But the closure is just for now since how app...
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A US judge indicated on Wednesday that he is planning to order Google to make big changes to its Play Store for Android phones. US District Judge James Donato made clear during a hearing in San Francisco that the order would probably require Google's store to offer consumers a choice to download alternative app stores. The judge had been considering punishment for the company after Google lost an antitrust lawsuit in December to Epic Games, the creator of popular video game Fortnite. Google loses major US antitrust case as judge rules it has illegal search monopoly"We are going to tear the bar...
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A US judge ruled on Monday that Google is a monopoly that has been using its search dominance to stifle competition in a major decision that could shake up big tech. The judge's decision came nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting regulators against Google in the country's biggest antitrust showdown in decades. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," US district judge Amit Mehta wrote in a 277-page ruling. It represents a ma...
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating a relationship between Google’s parent company Alphabet and the AI firm Anthropic to see if it has reduced competition. The CMA will identify whether a partnership between the two firms is a “relevant merger situation” and that it might result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in the UK’s burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion (€1.85 billion) last October, multiple media outlets said, on top of a reported 10 per cent stake that they have in the company. Amazon to inve...
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Alphabet has broken its silence and denied theories put forward by Elon Musk and other users on the site X, relating to the upcoming 2024 US election. Musk, one of the world's richest men and the entrepreneur who owns X, suggested that Google search results were being filtered in a way that benefited the Democratic Party's campaign. "Wow, this is crazy!" Musk wrote when reposting another user's tweet. The post in question included a screen recording of a Google search of former President Donald Trump's name. He is the Republican Party's presidential candidate. On the back of this search, artic...
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Google's parent company, Alphabet, is set to report earnings after the US markets close today, providing insight into the health of its AI-led business. Alphabet posted impressive first-quarter earnings due to growth acceleration in its Google Cloud and advertising sales. Investors expect the company to unveil further innovations in its AI initiatives, an area in which Alphabet has heavily invested. Alphabet shares have risen 31% year-to-date, surpassing the Nasdaq Composite's 20% growth. Past performance and forecastIn the first quarter, The overall revenue increased 15% from a year ago to $8...
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Microsoft's hiring of employees from artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Inflection will undergo an intitial investigation by British authorities over concerns that it could thwart competition in the booming AI market. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday its review of the hirings from Inflection AI, including its co-founder and CEO Mustafa Suleyman, turned up "sufficient information" to open an investigation. Microsoft hired Suleyman to head up its consumer AI business earlier this year, and brought over several top engineers and researchers. Elon Musk claims EU offere...
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Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going 'net zero', meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company on Tuesday shows it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 per cent in 2023 over the year before. Compared to its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 per cent. Google cited artificial intelligence (AI) and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. Making that elect...
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Google has announced that 110 languages have been added to its Translate feature, including several endangered European ones. About a quarter of the new languages come from Africa, the company said, with all the new languages representing more than 614 million speakers. You can now send a work email in Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man that "almost went extinct with the death of its last native speaker in 1974," the company said in a post on its blog. Regional languages from France, including Breton - a Celtic language spoken in Brittany - and Occitan, which is spoken in the country...
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Google’s new search feature, AI Overviews, is facing mounting backlash after users pointed out some factually inaccurate and misleading answers to queries. AI Overview, which was launched two weeks ago, shows a summary of answers to common questions on Google Search at the top of the page that it gets from various sources around the Internet. The goal of the new feature is to help users answer “more complex questions,” according to a Google blog post. Instead, it has produced false answers like telling a user to glue cheese to pizza if it gets unstuck, to eat rocks to help with your health, or...
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