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In two separate cases today, the EU’s Court of Justice ruled in favour of back taxes and fines against Apple and Google totalling €15.4bn, a major victory in the bloc’s ongoing battle with ...

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-apple-google-fines-back-taxes-ireland-2024

Google’s plans for a third data centre in Dublin have hit a snag. Unimpressed by the lack of on-site renewable energy sources to power the facility, the South Dublin County Council today announ...

https://thenextweb.com/news/dublin-rejects-google-data-centre-energy-concerns

Today — on Earth Day — non-profit search engine Ecosia has launched the “greenest browser on Earth” as it seeks to offer customers a more sustainable alternative to Google Chrome or Apple...

https://thenextweb.com/news/earth-day-ecosia-launches-energy-generating-browser

Google has launched a €25mn training and skills programme to help Europe’s workforce “seize the opportunity of AI,” the tech giant announced today.  The initiative is targeted at “vuln...

https://thenextweb.com/news/google-launches-ai-initiative-europe-workforce

Yesterday, Google launched its much anticipated response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT (the first release of Bard didn’t really count, did it?). However, the new set of generative AI models that Google...

https://thenextweb.com/news/google-gemini-ai-unavailable-europe-uk

In conjunction with a visit of CEO Sundar Pichai’s visit to Stockholm yesterday, Google announced the launch of the second Google.org Social Innovation Fund on AI to “help social enterprises ...

https://thenextweb.com/news/google-launches-10m-euro-social-innovation-ai-fund-european-entrepreneurs

During its I/O 2023 event yesterday, Google announced it had officially removed the waitlist for its AI-powered chatbot Bard and made the service available in 180 countries and territories. Sadly...

https://thenextweb.com/news/google-releases-bard-world-leaves-eu-behind

A study published earlier this week by Surge AI appears to lay bare one of the biggest problems plaguing the AI industry: bullshit, exploitative data-labeling practices. Last year, Google built a...

https://thenextweb.com/news/scathing-study-exposes-googles-harmful-approach-ai-development

One of the useful features of search engines like Google is the autocomplete function that enables users to find fast answers to their questions or queries. However, autocomplete search functions...

https://thenextweb.com/news/language-matters-when-googling-controversial-people

The world of AI research is in shambles. From the academics prioritizing easy-to-monetize schemes over breaking novel ground, to the Silicon Valley elite using the threat of job loss to encourage...

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-research-dumpster-fire-and-googles-holding-the-matches