AI-related companies witnessed a loss of $190 billion in market capitalisation late on Tuesday, triggered by disappointing quarterly reports from tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet.

AI Market Plunge: Alphabet and Microsoft earnings jolt investors, wipe out $190 billion

The "Year of Efficiency" in Big Tech may be over, but signs indicate that the industry's major players, Google and Amazon, are set to continue job cuts in 2024 as they intensify their investments in generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Tech titans maintain job cuts in 2024 amid AI investment surge

Google has decided to streamline its workforce, announcing layoffs across its Voice Assistant, hardware, and engineering teams on Wednesday, in a bid to optimise operations and prioritise key areas.

Google axes jobs in assistant, hardware, and engineering teams

The visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Lakshadweep has seen a record-breaking surge in online searches for Lakshadweep islands. The archipelago, famed for its pristine beauty, has seen an unprecedented spike in views on its Wikipedia page, soaring from an average of under 2,000 to a staggering 700,000 views in just four days – starting from January 5, 2024.

Wikipedia, Google searches for Lakshadweep hit an all-time high

Tech giant Google's parent company Alphabet has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an antitrust case with US states and consumers filed in federal court on Monday (Dec 18).

Google to cough up $700mn as part of Play Store antitrust settlement, week after defeat against Epic Games

Google on Wednesday infused its Bard chatbot with a new-generation artificial intelligence model called Gemini, which it touts as being able to reason better than ChatGPT and other rivals.

Google launches Gemini, its most advanced AI model that powers Bard, intensifying competition with OpenAI

Starting Friday (Dec 1), Google will be deleting accounts that have not been operated by the users for a couple of years, according to a BBC report. Under its inactive account policy, the tech giant will start the purge, albeit in a phased manner, with accounts that "were created and never used again" getting the bump first.

Google to delete inactive accounts starting Friday. Know how to avoid it

Google has called on Britain’s antitrust regulator to take action against Microsoft, claiming its business practices had left rivals at a significant disadvantage, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Google presses for antitrust action against rival Microsoft: Reuters

There will be a church for Artificial Intelligence, again. Former Google engineer and tech entrepreneur, Anthony Levandowski, in a recent episode of Bloomberg’s AI IRL podcast, said that he is relaunching his AI-dedicated church.

‘Way of the Future’: Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski relaunches AI church

The US government on Thursday (November 16) concluded the main arguments in the antitrust case against Alphabet-owned Google. This has concluded the evidentiary phase of the case in which Google finds itself accused of breaking antitrust law in order to lead the market.

US concludes main arguments against Google in antitrust case

The US Justice Department's antitrust trial has revealed that Alphabet's Google pays Apple about 36 per cent of the revenue generated from search advertising through the Safari browser.

Google pays Apple 36pc of search advertising revenue, discloses antitrust trial

Google has agreed to an investment of upto USD 2 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. The start-up is a rival of OpenAI, the maker of widely popular generative AI tool ChatGPT.

Google taking on ChatGPT? Search giant to invest $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic

Alphabet’s Google paid $26.3 billion to be the default search engine on mobile phones and web browsers in 2021, according to American media reports. The figure was revealed on Friday (Oct 27) amid the ongoing once-in-a-generation antitrust fight over Google’s dominance of search and some parts of search advertising.

Google allegedly paid $26 billion to be default search engine on browsers, phones in 2021: Reports

Australian regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X, rebranded from Twitter, $385,000 (A$610,500) as it failed to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices after not providing information about its efforts to combat child exploitation.

Australia fines Musk’s X $385,000 for failure to provide information on child abuse content

The family of a North Carolina man has sued technology giant Google for negligence after he died as he drove off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions.

Google Maps led a man to a broken bridge who then drowned. His family is now suing Google

Scientists at Google's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind have developed a breakthrough tool that can predict whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm - helping research into rare diseases.

Breakthrough? Google develops AI tool capable of predicting harmful genetic mutations

Google will be coughing up $93 million to settle a lawsuit, filed by California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta over the company’s deceptive and misleading tactics for managing location data of users.

Google to cough up $93 million to California in deceptive 'location privacy' settlement

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday (September 12) accused Google of paying a whopping $10 billion a year to Apple and other companies to maintain its monopoly in the search engine market.

US DoJ claims Google pays Apple and others $10 billion a year to dominate search engine market

Australia is taking steps to prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in search engine results. The country's internet regulator, e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, on Friday, announced that the nation will now require search engines to ensure that such content doesn't make it to search results.

Australia collaborates with tech giants to block AI-generated child porn in search engines

Google said on Wednesday (August 30) that it has introduced its generative artificial intelligence into its search for users in India and Japan. The search giant has said the introduction of this capability will show text or visual results in prompts, including summaries.

Google launches generative-AI search function in India and Japan

Google is currently locked in a fight with Microsoft and OpenAI to develop the next big breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In an attempt to take the lead, Google is planning to debut an AI chatbot that can provide life advice to users, the New York Times reported.

'Hey Google, why am I sad?': Tech giant developing AI chatbot that offers life advice

Search giant Google violated the patent rights of a software developer with its remote-streaming technology and needs to pay USD 338.7 million in damages, ruled a federal judge in Waco, Texas.

Judge asks Google to pay USD 338.7 million in Chromecast patent case

Google has been sued for allegedly “secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” to train its generative AI products like its Bard chatbot.

US: Google faces class action lawsuit for ‘secretly’ stealing users' data to train its AI

Artificial Intelligence, which previously could only scare the humanity through works of fiction can now answer real-life questions, write codes and even seduce people.

Google's AI health chatbot Med-PaLM cracks US medical licensing exam, says study

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