Tag: Google

The AI Showdown: ChatGPT against Google Bard

Bard, an AI rival to ChatGPT, is accessible for free in over 180 countries. Bard, now known as Gemini, demonstrates that Google is committed to<span...

Tech leaders unite to safeguard 2024 elections against deceptive AI usage

At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) today, major tech firms committed to combating deceptive AI content ahead of this year’s global elections, where more than...

Google turns 25: the search engine revolutionised how we access information, but will it survive AI?

Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to...

Google parent cuts 12k jobs in the most recent tech downsizing

The parent company of Google announced it will be cutting 12,000 jobs, or 6 per cent of its staff, in the most recent tech downsizing....

Google prevails in lawsuit against Russian bot scam org

Google has won a crucial court battle against a group that operated a network of bots to influence systems of the technology company....

High Court decision on Google shocks defamation lawyers

In a huge win for internet giant Google, the court found the search engine was not legally responsible for defamatory news articles as it was...

High Court finds Google not responsible for defamatory articles

Australia’s highest court has ruled Google is not legally responsible for defamatory news articles as it is not the publisher of such content. A majority...

Google ordered to pay $60m for misleading data collection policy

Google has agreed to pay $60 million in penalties flowing from a long-running court fight with the Australian competition watchdog over the tech giant misleading...

Pinterest names Google commerce exec as new CEO

Pinterest announced longtime CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down, making way for Google commerce executive Bill Ready to take over. Before joining Google in 2020...

Google launches special initiatives for Int’l Small Business Week

Google has introduced a couple of new SMB support tools and services in celebration of the International Small Business Week. In recognizing every business’s story,...

YouTube Shorts is catching up to rival TikTok – Google

Google revealed that more than 1.5 billion people watch YouTube Shorts every month, showing that the short-video service had reached a similar scale to rival...

Digital platforms to sign new EU Anti-Disinformation Code

The Financial Times (FT) reported Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and TikTok are all planning to sign a revamped version of the EU’s ‘anti-disinformation code.’ The...

Tech giants’ 2021 misinformation transparency reports

The first annual review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation have commenced and recommendations to improve the code are coming from...

Voluntary misinformation code’s first review launched

A year after introducing the voluntary misinformation code, the Digital Industry Group (DIGI) launched its first review of the code. It had also produced its...

Google loses defamation battle, ordered to pay John Barilaro $715,000

A federal court has ordered Google to pay $715,000 to former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro following a series of “racist” and “abusive”...

YouTube takes down 9,000 channels, 70,000 videos for trivialising Ukraine invasion

YouTube has deleted over 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels related to the Ukraine-Russia conflict for violating content guidelines, which forbid creators from denying or trivialising...

Google announces release of latest core algorithm updates

Google has announced the release of its broad core algorithm updates to improve ranking processes, altering how sites appear on search results pages. “We’re releasing...

Apple and Google limit products and services in Russia

Tech giants Apple and Google are pausing all product sales and removing Russian state-funded publishers such as RT from its news-related features in response to...

Country Press Australia members can collectively bargain with Google and Facebook

The ACCC has granted interim authorisation for Country Press Australia (CPA) members to collectively negotiate with Facebook and Google over payments to publishers for their...