Google announced that it has entered into two utility agreements to reduce the energy usage of its AI data centers when there is a greater demand for electricity.
A newly revealed vulnerability in Google’s search system allowed individuals to deliberately suppress specific web pages from appearing in search results, raising serious concerns over online censorship and information control.
Google is pursuing agreements with national news outlets to license their content for artificial intelligence development, signaling a major shift in its relationship with the media industry. The initiative aims to involve around 20 major publishers in a pilot program designed to support Google’s AI tools, including its search-integrated AI Overviews.
A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314.6 million after determining the tech giant secretly collected cellular data from Android users without their consent.
A public-facing database containing 184,162,718 unencrypted passwords tied to major services—including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, and bank and government portals—was discovered online.
President Trump's Justice Department urged U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to take action against Google and force it to divest its ownership of Chrome.
Google and its parent company, Alphabet, announced an agreement to acquire Wiz, a top cloud security platform based in New York. The acquisition is worth $32 billion.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that a coalition of 38 attorneys general and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have proposed a final set of remedies to break up Google’s monopoly over internet search engines. The proposal, which follows a landmark antitrust ruling, could force Google to divest its Chrome browser and, if necessary, additional assets such as Android.
