A Waymo vehicle exits a charging lot on Jan. 15, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Alphabet‘s self-driving car unit Waymo on Monday said it raised a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $126 billion “post-money.” The new funding is the latest move by Alphabet to fund Waymo’s continued…
The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York, Nov. 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters A federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing trade secrets related to the search company’s AI technology. The jury found 38 year-old Linwei Ding,…
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims that its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, deliver advertisements. Reuters report. Google did not admit wrongdoing in settlement of the class-action case, which accused the company “Unlawfully and knowingly intercepting and recording confidential communications of persons without their consent and subsequently…
We’re about to take our first real look at the results Recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Googleaccording to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman reports that Apple plans to announce a new version of Siri in the second half of February. Using Google’s Gemini AI model, this Siri update will reportedly be the first to…
If your Gmail account is not working properly today, you are not alone. official status dashboard Google Workspace reveals that the problems began around 5 a.m. Saturday morning, with users experiencing both “misclassification of emails in the inbox and additional spam warnings.” For me, this meant that my primary inbox was filled with messages that…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the press conference after his meeting with Polish PM Donald Tusk at Google for Startups Campus In Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 13, 2025. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google on Friday filed to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the company held an illegal monopoly in…
Google on Tuesday updated its Veo 3.1 AI video generation model with the ability to create native vertical videos for social platforms using reference images. The changes will make videos generated from reference images more expressive and dynamic. When creating YouTube Shorts or AI-generated videos for other platforms like Instagram or TikTok, Veo users can…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | Afp | Getty Images Google parent company Alphabet has become the fourth member of the $4 trillion club. Alphabet shares popped 1% Monday, after Apple said it would use Google’s…
The Google logo displayed on a smartphone alongside a shopping cart. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images As retailers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence tools to lure shoppers and run key parts of their business, Google wants to make sure it’s in the center of the action. At the kickoff of…
Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be reducing their presence in the state where they co-founded Google. The New York Times reported in December that there were 15 limited liability companies overseeing Brin’s investments and interests. Abolished or converted to Nevada unitsThese include the LLC that manages one of his superyachts and his interest…
