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Meta ad revenue growth more than doubles Google Search as AI reshapes online advertising market

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Meta's advertising revenue growth outpaces Google Search as AI reshapes the online advertising market. (Representative Image/Reuters)

Meta and Google have dominated the online advertising market for nearly two decades. Both companies have made billions of dollars by showing advertisements to millions of people across their platforms. However, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT is changing how people search for information and discover products online, creating different challenges … Read more

Google, Microsoft, Amazon face investor pressure to justify massive AI spending as earnings loom

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Google, Microsoft and Amazon face pressure to show returns on their AI investments. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo) (REUTERS)

Google, Microsoft and Amazon will report their quarterly earnings this week. Investors will watch how much money these companies are spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and whether this spending is helping them make more money. Google, Microsoft and Amazon face pressure to show returns on their AI investments. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo) (REUTERS) These three technology … Read more

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and sells GPT-6 Astra models through Google Cloud to enterprise customers

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and brings GPT-6 Astra models to Google Cloud. (Unsplash)

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT ads to more countries while also making its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and Codex coding agent available through Google Cloud. These moves are aimed at reaching more advertisers and business customers. OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and brings GPT-6 Astra models to Google Cloud. (Unsplash) OpenAI began testing advertisements on … Read more

Trump White House ballroom donor list revealed: Apple, Nvidia, Google among top contributors to $333 million fund

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A list obtained by The Washington Post shows who donated to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. (AP Photo)

The top donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have come out. According to The Washington Postmany of the donors have had contracts with the federal government during Trump’s second term. A list obtained by The Washington Post shows who donated to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. (AP Photo) The list … Read more

Apple launches $299 HomeView: Can AI Siri help it beat Amazon and Google?

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The Apple HomeView, an iPad-like device meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops that will showcase its AI-upgraded Siri virtual assistant, during a launch of smart home products in New York City, US, October 13, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (REUTERS)

Apple launched several new smart home products on Tuesday, October 13, including a new iPad-like device called HomeView. The company hopes its AI-upgraded Siri virtual assistant will help it gain a bigger share of the competitive smart home market. The Apple HomeView, an iPad-like device meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops that … Read more

22-year-old school dropout steals $245 million in Bitcoin by posing as Google and Gemini executives; pleads guilty as stolen fortune funds Ferraris, mansions and a $569,000 night out

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22-year-old school dropout steals $245 million in Bitcoin by posing as Google and Gemini executives; pleads guilty as stolen fortune funds Ferraris, mansions and a $569,000 night out

Malone Lam flashes bundles of cash while partying at a Miami nightclub in September 2024. (Photo: United States Department of Justice) A 22-year-old Singaporean man has pleaded guilty to his role in an international cryptocurrency racketeering operation that prosecutors say stole and laundered more than $245 million in digital assets. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout … Read more

Is Google still down? Hundreds in US continue facing issues with services amid outage; ‘messed up long weekend’

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Google is down for many users in United Statesas per Downdetector, which recorded 1,067 reports at 12:57pm EDT. Google down (REUTERS) According to Downdetector, most users reported issues with content not loading, making up 58% of complaints. This was followed by app problems at 17%, and login issues at 14%. What are people saying Users … Read more

Lake Ontario is now ‘Lake America’ on Google Maps in US

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This photo illustration shows a Google map identifying Lake Ontario as "Lake America" in front of a photograph. (AFP)

Google has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” ​​for users in the United States, reflecting a recent order by President Donald Trump that changed the name of the lake, the global technology giant says. This photo illustration shows a Google map identifying Lake Ontario as “Lake America” in front of … Read more

Man, 63, sets himself on fire inside NYC Google office building; witness says ‘terribly burned’

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A 63-year-old man set himself on fire inside the lobby of a building that houses Google offices. (UnSplash)

A 63-year-old man set himself on fire inside the lobby of a building that houses Google offices in downtown Manhattan on Friday, according to the Daily Mail. A 63-year-old man set himself on fire inside the lobby of a building that houses Google offices. (UnSplash) Security staff managed to put out the flames. The unidentified … Read more

A Texas farmer’s family has worked 6,000 acres for over a century; after his landlord sold 600 rented acres for a Google data center, he was given 60 days to leave

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A Texas farmer’s family has worked 6,000 acres for over a century; after his landlord sold 600 rented acres for a Google data center, he was given 60 days to leave

Standing near the Haskell County border in West Texas, fourth-generation farmer Cheyenne Buerger can see industrial cranes building a huge Google facility just over four miles to the northeast. Until recently, part of that same horizon was farmland he worked himself. After farming thousands of acres with his family for more than a century, Buerger … Read more