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April 2024

  • Close up of a Google Maps icon on a phone

    Google Maps to show most fuel-efficient route and may prompt Australians to try greener alternatives

    The map app will soon advise users in Sydney and Melbourne on public transport or walking alternatives to their driving plan
  • Protesters demand Google end cloud contract with Israel<br>A counter-protester holding an Israeli flag walks into the parking lot near a protest at Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, U.S. on April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino

    Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government

    Google workers linked to No Tech for Apartheid denounce ‘flagrant act of retaliation’ in dispute over $1.2bn cloud contract
    • Google blocking links to California news outlets from search results

    • If costs force Google to charge for AI, competitors will cheer

    • Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit

March 2024

  • Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters after a meeting at the Capitol in Washington.

    Business live
    Boeing boss Dave Calhoun to step down; EU to investigate Alphabet, Apple and Meta – as it happened

  • icons of online platforms Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Apple Store and TikTok on a smartphone

    EU investigates Apple, Meta and Google owner Alphabet under new tech law

  • Model of the new Google building

    Undertaxed and over here: why does the UK welcome US mega-firms?

    Phillip Inman
  • Alphabet's Google Releases Gemini AI Model<br>The Gemini logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Alphabet's Google said Gemini is its largest, most capable and flexible AI model to date, replacing PaLM 2, released in May. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find

  • EU calls on tech firms to outline plans to tackle deepfakes amid election fears

  • Bots v Ballots: AI and the 2024 US election
    Google restricts AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions on 2024 elections

  • TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: My pet theory that Google’s Waze will help drive Starmer to No 10

  • When £17m isn’t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more

  • The networker
    Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

    John Naughton
  • AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report

  • Ex-Google engineer arrested for alleged theft of AI secrets for Chinese firms

  • Facebook and Instagram: Meta services hit by widespread outages

  • Misleading clickbait is prevalent on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta’s news ban. Could it happen in Australia?

February 2024

  • Google logo on building

    Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses

  • Google’s Gemini AI illustrations of a 1943 German soldier.

    Google chief admits ‘biased’ AI tool’s photo diversity offended users

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