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Last month, the company rolled out the first made-in-India Pixel 8 smartphones in India

Agreement will create solutions for various sectors including financial services and health care

Roles in sales, operations and engineering, consulting and "go to market" strategy were some of the positions cut

Google's expansion plan in India: The tech giant leased office space at a monthly rate of Rs 62 per sq ft, with a three-year lock-in period

Google had argued that restricting it from charging a fee in the interim would virtually mean that the tech giant would have to provide its Playstore for free to developers in India

Altman is rejoining the company's board following the findings

Under fire over AI tool Gemini's objectionable response and bias to a question on PM Narendra Modi, Google on Saturday said it has worked quickly to address the issue and conceded that the chatbot "may not always be reliable" in responding to certain prompts related to current events and political topics. On Friday, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar had warned that Google's AI tool Gemini's response to a question around the Prime Minister is in direct violation of IT rules as well as several provisions of the criminal code. Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for IT and Electronics, had taken cognizance of the issue raised by verified accounts of a journalist alleging bias in Google Gemini in response to a question on Modi while it gave no clear answer when a similar question was asked for Trump and Zelenskyy. In an e-mail statement, a Google spokesperson said, "We've worked quickly to address this issue." Google further said Gemini is built as a creativity and productivity tool and

The firm will also run a series of growth academies to support companies using AI to scale their companies and has expanded its free online AI training courses to 18 languages

Google Vice President Chandrasekhar Thota paid a courtesy call to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday and expressed readiness to work together with the state government. Noting that Artificial Intelligence would influence every sector, the Google official said his company can partner with the government to develop a digitization agenda for the state in farming, education and health. "Google Vice President Chandrasekhar Thota discussed with the CM investments in Telangana State and expressed desire to work together with the government," an official release said. It also quoted Thota as saying that the company has the technology and expertise to provide quality services to cater to the needs of Telangana citizens. Reddy also discussed ways to improve road safety using Google Maps and Google Earth platforms, the release added.

Gemini is currently available only in English but support for other languages are expected to come soon

In a letter submitted to the CMA, Google said Microsoft's licensing practices unfairly discouraged customers from using competitor services, even as a secondary provider alongside Azure

Troubled quick commerce startup Dunzo has migrated all its employee accounts to Zoho workspace from Google, to bring down costs by at least a third. Google workspace is priced at about Rs 1,600 per user each month under the enterprise plan, while Zoho charges a portion of that at Rs 489 for similar offerings. A Dunzo spokesperson commented on the matter, saying, "This migration is just a regular business decision. There were some initial teething issues for the first couple of days, but all of these have been ironed out now." The company's auditor Deloitte during the regulatory filing casted a doubt on the company being a going concern after net loss ballooned to Rs 1,802 crore in FY23, which is a 288 per cent increase from the previous year. In accounting terms, entities functioning as a 'going concern' have sufficient resources to continue making money and would not go bankrupt in the foreseeable future. After the exit of a Reliance executive from its board and the departure of

"We didn't know what would happen" with the choice screen, testified Ben Gomes, who was head of Google's search team at the time. "This was trying to figure out what would happen"

European Union recently adopted new rules called the Digital Services Act (DSA) which require large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful online content

Microsoft ended up losing its monopoly trial, but after an appeal the company settled in the early aughts with the Justice Department

Big-name backers are betting on young firms like CentML to find innovative ways around those constraints

The Frontier Model Forum is backed by ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, Microsoft, Google's parent Alphabet and AI startup Anthropic

While Google has announced the manufacturing of Pixel smartphones in India, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked the company to start production of its Tensor chipset in India in three years. The communications and IT minister has also suggested Google to bring premium Pixel Fold devices in India at the earliest. The Tensor G3 chipset includes the latest generation of ARM central processing units, an upgraded Graphics processing unit (GPU), and next-gen Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to support Google's artificial intelligence (AI) models. GPU and application-specific chips are crucial to support the development and implementation of AI technologies, but there is a shortage in their supplies due to advanced bulk orders from the US and China-based entities. "I have asked them to bring the fab of Tensor to India in three years. In the coming days, they should start manufacturing Tensor in an Indian fab," Vaishnaw told reporters on the sidelines of the Google for India event. The

The EU case is a direct attack on the black-box of online advertising where Google automatically calculates and offers ad space and prices to advertisers and publishers as a user clicks on a web page

The company also said the indemnity does not apply if users "intentionally create or use generated output to infringe the rights of others"