App developers sue over removals
Google and Apple in court
App developers Musi and Sarafan Mobile have sued Apple and Google in California federal court over unjustified app removals based on legal issues with the big tech companies.
US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
It is the American way
The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.
OpenAI launches real-time search feature
Challenges Google and Microsoft
OpenAI launched a real-time search function within ChatGPT, marking its first significant foray into a market long dominated by Google.
Former Google Chief Eric Schmidt drones on about drones
US Army should ditch tanks in favour of AI-powered Drones
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called for a radical shift in US military strategy. He urges the Army to scrap its “useless” tanks in favour of AI-powered drones.
Google fined a $100 trillion in Russia
How dare you censor Tsar Putin’s chums?
The very nice Tsar of all the Russia’s Tsar Vladimir [this land is my land] Putin has fined Google the astronomical sum of around $20 decillion for YouTube's blocking of Russian media channels tied to sanctioned entities.
Meta sets its sights on rivalling Google and Bing with new search engine
Quietly working on webcrawling
Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.
Vole accuses Google of running European "shadow campaigns"
Wants to discredit Microsoft with regulators
Software King of the World Microsoft has slammed Google for running "shadow campaigns" in Europe designed to discredit the software giant with regulators.
OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Still the leader for now
OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,
Apple insiders admit that it is two years behind on AI
Not so cutting edge, after all
While Tame Apple Press claims that the fruity cargo cult is at the cutting edge of AI development, its staff knows it is two years behind everyone else.
Google going nuclear
Will buy small modular reactors
In a shocking move, Google has decided to go nuclear and will purchase power from Kairos Power's small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of its ongoing commitment to clean energy and to meet its data centre demands.