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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ:) must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures – including possibly selling Android – to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. Such changes could result in Google being…

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas addressed the lawsuits the company is facing from news publishers.At a WSJ conference appearance, Srinivas said Perplexity was previously in conversations with Dow Jones.Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise new funds in a deal that would value it at $8 billion. The simmering tensions between…

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – In the span of two days this week, Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google was hit with a court order to open up its app store Play to rivals and learned that the U.S. Justice Department may soon ask a judge to split up the company to limit…

By Zaheer Kachwala and Akash Sriram (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedies to break up Google’s search dominance could weaken its main profit engine and stall its advances in artificial intelligence, even though a final outcome may be years away, analysts said. The DOJ said on Tuesday…

Google’s AI Overviews, which are AI-generated answers that can show up when you do a Google search, now includes a right-hand display of links. Google is also testing relevant in-text links in AI Overviews as an experiment so users can see cited information throughout the response.The update is available on…

Google is one of the world’s largest and most influential companies, and the most popular search engine by far. So it’s no surprise that the search giant’s rapidly evolving and boundary-pushing technology would attract litigation over the course of its 25-year history.Google has been sued in dozens, if not hundreds…

Google’s AI Overviews in search results have dropped off significantly in recent months, according to a new study. The search giant is rethinking how it uses artificial intelligence in its biggest product.Researchers at SE Ranking have been closely tracking how often Google’s AI-generated responses appear in results and the sources…

By David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world’s default search engine, the first big win for federal authorities taking on Big Tech’s market dominance. The ruling…

Google violated antitrust law with its online search, a federal judge ruled Monday, striking a major blow against one of the titans of the tech industry.District Judge Amit Mehta said Google’s billions in payments to keep its search engine as the default on web browsers violated US law.”After having carefully…

Two lions recently proved that there’s no river wide enough to keep them from potential mates.In February, the pair of brothers, Jacob and Tibu, swam for nearly a mile across a channel between two lakes in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.They had to turn back several times because the water…