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Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. A statement from the company Tuesday followed a Greenpeace report that documents how the three tech giants are using AI and computing power to help oil companies find …

Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies said 22 countries and several US states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their software. It relies on Bluetooth wireless technology to detect when someone who downloaded the …

Federal and state authorities are mulling antitrust lawsuits against Google after investigating the tech giant’s dominance of online advertising, reports say. The US Department of Justice could sue Google as soon as this summer, while a group of state attorneys general separately probing the company may bring their own case by the fall, according to …

The Justice Department is expected to launch an antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as this summer, with a group of state attorneys general planning for a case in the fall, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Both groups are already invested in planning for litigation. The state AGs, led by Texas Republican Ken Paxton, are …

In rolling out their coronavirus tracking system to developers, Apple and Google have confirmed that it will ban location tracking by other official apps. But the decision, which prioritizes privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens, could complicate things for state governments looking to track coronavirus outbreaks. State governments …

Zoom shares continued their two-day slide on Thursday after the company backtracked on a claim that it had 300 million users. The video-conferencing platform made the embarrassing admission in a quiet update to last week’s blog post where it had said that its user base has grown 50 percent to 300 million amid the coronavirus …

Shares of Zoom dropped as much as 7 percent Wednesday after Google announced that it will soon make its Meet video-conferencing service for businesses free for all users. Google’s move is a direct shot at Zoom, which has seen its user base soar 20-fold to more than 200 million during the coronavirus pandemic. Meet, which …

US stocks made a wobbly climb Tuesday as Wall Street weighed how the global economy will look once it emerges from its coronavirus-induced coma. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up an early 1.5 percent jump to trade up 115.80 points, or 0.4 percent, at 24,249.58 as of 2:13 p.m. That put the blue-chip index …

Facebook and Google will now have to pay local media firms a cut of the advertising revenue they rake in when using their content, the Australian government said Monday. Australian treasurer Josh Frydenberg said that the decision came after Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet failed to adequately address complaints by Australian media companies that …

Apple and Google are teaming up to build software that can alert users if they come into direct contact with someone who has the coronavirus. In a rare partnership for the Silicon Valley rivals that’s sure to stir privacy concerns, the companies said in a Friday press release that they will work together on  that …