Google, Meta face penalties for anti-competitive behaviour towards South African news media
Google could be required to pay up to 500 million rand ($27.29 million) a year in compensation to South African media outlets after the country's competition watchdog found the tech giant guilty of anti-competitive practices,
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Apple, Google, Meta are sharing more data with the US government than ever, Proton finds
Tech giants are giving US law enforcement data on millions of user accounts, according to a new report from Proton.
Why fast-learning robots are wearing Meta glasses
AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 service,

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Google’s Sergey Brin says 60 hours per week in the office is ‘sweet spot’ for AI workers
Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them
Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
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The 5 most important steps to building a branch headquarters
Some of the largest companies in the world—including tech companies like Google and Meta—are shifting back to an in-person work culture. With the “back to the office” trend gaining
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Researchers Claim Seven Leading Generative AIs Are Sentient: Samedia
A team of researchers has published evidence to show that the world's most advanced generative AIs—Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, Meta's Meta AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, China's DeepSeek,
Trump Moves To Impose Tariffs On Countries With Digital Taxes, Defending Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google And Other US Tech Giants
President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to reopen investigations into digital service taxes imposed on U.S. tech firms.
This Chinese AI Bet Has Outperformed Magnificent Seven Names Like Meta and Google This Year
Magnificent Seven who? That’s what some U.S. investors might be asking themselves after Alibaba’s stellar earnings pushed its U.S.-listed stock more than 8 percent higher Thursday, bringing its year-to-date gains above 60 percent.
Google, Microsoft, And Meta Linked To $5.4 Billion In Health Costs As AI Data Centers Fuel Pollution Crisis In The US: Report
A study estimates that pollution from Google, Microsoft, and Meta's data centers has led to $5.4 billion in U.S. public health costs.
Elon Musk's X Targeted by Italian Big Tech Probe That Could Impact Other U.S. Tech Giants (Reports)
Italy's Guardia di Finanza fiscal police has opened a tax probe into Elon Musk’s social network X in a move that could have a broader impact on the ongoing regulatory battle brewing between the European Union and U.
FTC seeks public’s input on ‘un-American’ and ‘potentially illegal’ Big Tech censorship — including ‘shadow banning’
The Federal Trade Commission will put Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook parent Meta under the microscope over the potential censorship of users and has asked for the public’s input, the agency announced on Thursday.
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DeepSeek called a net positive for data centers despite overcapacity worries
Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google parent Alphabet — four of the AI industry’s biggest players — plan to invest a combined $325 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, much of it for data centers and associated hardware.