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.

Quietly working on webcrawling

Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Part of its cunning plan to replace Google Assistant

Search engine outfit Google is working on making its Gemini AI project more tightly integrated with WhatsApp.

Its adorable that it thinks it can do that

The US Department of Justice claims it is considering breaking up Google, forgetting that it is in the land of the fee, where big corporations can do what they like.

DoJ claims Google uses ad tech like a sledgehammer

The anti-trust case against Google has started in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia with the DoJ claiming that the search engine outfit has been wielding its ad tech like a sledgehammer, violating antitrust laws in the process.

If you repair it with third-party parts

Once you start repairing your Google phone with third-party parts, you will have to keep doing it, or the search engine company will take it back, and you will never see it again.