Internet Search Giant

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  Google, DOJ to Make Final Push in US Search Antitrust Case

  Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser. If the judge does require Google to sell off Chrome, OpenAI would be interested in buying it, Nick Turley, OpenAI's product head for ChatGPT, said at the trial.

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  Google Updates Its ‘G’ Logo Icon With New Gradient Design Replacing Solid Colour Sections

  Google has silently updated its iconic ‘G’ logo with a new design, nearly 10 years after it was refreshed with the modern Product Sans typeface. The previously visible icon comprised sections featuring solid colours in line with the Mountain View-based tech giant’s colour scheme, with each block having a well-defined boundary. Following the u...

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  Apple Launches Snapshot Page to Help Users Discover More About Their Favourite Artists and Athletes

  Apple has launched a new page on its website to help users know more about actors, artists, creators, and athletes they love across devices. Dubbed Snapshot, it collates information from the Cupertino-based tech giant’s three media distribution platforms — Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Podcasts. Pages on the website dedicated to each artist...

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  Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors

  Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,97,800 crore) in stock, adding $75 billion (roughly Rs. 6,40,362 crore) to its mark...

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  Google NotebookLM Is Getting a New Discover Sources Feature That Can Search the Web

  Google NotebookLM is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will make it easier for users to add sources for a particular topic. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is dubbed Discover Sources, and it can scour the Internet to find relevant sources for a given topic. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that this feature uses...

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  Google Rolling Out New Features Across Its Platforms to Help Users Plan Vacations

  Google announced the rollout of several new features across its platforms on Thursday. Some of these features are powered by artificial intelligence (AI), while others are regular updates and language expansions. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that all of these features are aimed at helping users better plan their vacations and trips.

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  OpenAI Unveils Responses API, Agents SDK to Help Developers Build AI Agents

  OpenAI made several developer-focused announcements in a live stream on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI giant is introducing a new application programming interface (API) and an open-source software development kit (SDK) that will allow developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) agents and manage multi-agent workflows. Alongside, the comp...

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  Google Launches Gemini-Powered AI Mode for Search, Expands AI Overviews to More Users

  Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search queries that are multi-faceted and could t...

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  Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

  Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has conducted rigorous safety evaluations to ensure that the model is safe to ...

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  Google Partners The Associated Press to Bring Real-Time Information to Gemini

  Google announced a new partnership with the US-based not-for-profit news agency Associated Press on Wednesday. The new collaboration is focused on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) products and services, which are powered by its Gemini AI models. The company highlighted that with this partnership, AP will deliver ...

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  Google Cloud Unveils Generative AI Search and Agentic Tools for Retailers

  Google announced new artificial intelligence (AI) search and agentic tools for retail-focused enterprises on Sunday. These announcements were made at the ongoing National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2025 event. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced its Agentspace platform that enables enterprises to build personalised AI agents for a wide r...

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  Google's Proposed Search Result Changes Get Thumbs Up from EU Airlines

  Google's proposed changes to its search results to comply with EU tech legislation has received the thumbs up from lobbying group Airlines for Europe. The search engine giant is trying to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which prohibits it from favouring its own products and services on its platform.

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  Google Reportedly Planning to Add an ‘AI Mode’ Option to Google Search

  Google is reportedly planning to add a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Search. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is working on an AI Mode on Google Search that will allow users to access a conversational interface for searched queries. However, this feature is said to be different from the AI Overviews feature wh...

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  Google Blasts Chrome Sale as ‘Extreme’ Remedy at Odds With Law

  Google on Friday labelled the US Justice Department's plan to sell its web browser as "extreme" and legally flawed, cautioning a judge against stifling future innovation. In a court filing, the search giant proposed its own remedy, arguing the Chrome sale doesn't match the illegal conduct involving exclusive contracts with browsers, manufacturers, ...

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  Google DeepMind Showcases Upgraded Capabilities in Project Astra With Gemini 2.0

  Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research wing, first unveiled Project Astra at I/O this year. Now, more than six months later, the tech giant announced new capabilities and improvements in the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Drawing upon Gemini 2.0 AI models, it can now converse in multiple languages, access multiple Google platforms, and h...