Google has confirmed it is launching its own artificial intelligence-powered chatbot in the wake of the success of rival service ChatGPT. First launched late last year, ChatGPT has become an online sensation because of its ability to hold natural conversations but also to generate speeches, songs and essays. Here is a closer look at the […]
Technology giants Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all posted disappointing financial results on Thursday as businesses continue to face challenging global economic issues. Google’s parent company Alphabet posted lower profits and only a small revenue increase, while Amazon also reported a fall in profits and Apple posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years. […]
Microsoft has said it is making a “multi-year, multibillion-dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up OpenAI – the maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images. The tech giant described its new agreement as the third stage of a growing partnership with the San Francisco-based OpenAI that […]
The US justice department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition. The US government alleges that Google’s plan to assert dominance has been to “neutralise or eliminate” rivals through acquisitions and to force advertisers to use its products by making it difficult to use competitors’ products. […]
Google’s parent firm Alphabet has said it will cut about 12,000 jobs, in an email to staff. It becomes the latest tech giant to announce significant cuts after similar announcements from Amazon and Microsoft in recent weeks. The cuts, which will affect about 6% of the group’s workforce, are expected to be made broadly across […]
The UK’s competition watchdog is to launch a full investigation into the market dominance of Apple and Google in mobile services. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said a consultation had found substantial industry concerns around the firms’ dominance of mobile web browsers and that Apple restricts cloud gaming on its App Store. Those findings […]
The Taoiseach has said the Government is to consult tech giants whose Ireland-based employees are at risk of redundancy. Micheal Martin said there are issues within the digital sector and he is concerned over the potential job losses in the state. He made the comments as Tanaiste Leo Varadkar meets officials from the Industrial Development […]
Google has confirmed it will shut down its Stadia cloud gaming service early next year. The service, which launched in 2019, allowed users to stream video games to their TV, laptop or smartphone without needing to own a games console. The platform was seen by some as having the potential to be a Netflix equivalent […]
A probe into the dominance of technology titans Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud services is being launched by UK watchdog Ofcom to check on the strength of competition in the sector. The regulator is set to launch a market study in the “coming weeks” that will assess how well the market is working, as […]
Microsoft’s proposed 68.7 billion US dollar (£59.7bn) takeover of games publisher Activision Blizzard is to face an in-depth investigation amid concerns the deal is anti-competitive, the UK’s competition watchdog has confirmed. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has referred the takeover for a so-called phase two probe after Microsoft said it would not […]
