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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has suggested that AI could eventually perform his executive duties more efficiently than a human. Meanwhile, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is actively testing an AI-powered assistant to manage day-to-day operations and strategic decision-making. This shift marks a significant turning point for corporate leadership and the future of Silicon Valley.

A veteran pilot may have discovered new evidence of Amelia Earhart's plane using Google Earth, sparking renewed interest in the aviation mystery.

There's plenty of hand-waving around AGI. DeepMind hopes to change that with a new, more rigorous approach. The post Google DeepMind Plans to Track AGI Progress With These 10 Traits of General Intelligence appeared first on SingularityHub.

A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the formation of contrails, which contribute to global warming

Learn about the DarkSword hack targeting iPhones and why updating your iOS is crucial for security.

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A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the formation of contrails, which contribute to global warming

A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the formation of contrails, which contribute to global warming

Shoshana Strook, daughter of Israeli minister Orit Strook, alleged years of sexual and ritual abuse before her death, sparking online controversy and claims of information suppression.

Latest in Epstein investigation: Former guard Tova Noel to testify before Congress. Explore her alleged misconduct and financial activities on Epstein's death night.

Google Maps no longer wants you to type addresses and squint at blue lines. On Thursday, March 12,

Flash floods kill over 5,000 people annually and rank among the hardest weather events to forecast. They strike

Cracker Barrel profits plunged 94% in Q2 2026 amid backlash to its 'woke' rebrand, though improving Google ratings suggest some customer sentiment may be shifting.

The mystery of altered Google Earth images in New Mexico, California, and Baja, sparking debates over hidden UFOs and satellite imagery modifications.

Google Forms deserves credit for what it is: free and with almost zero learning curve. For a quick

Google has quietly released a command-line tool that bundles every Workspace API into one package — and yes,

Spexi's crowdsourced drone fleet has mapped over 5 million acres in 200 cities around Canada and the US. The post Thousands of Everyday Drone Pilots Are Making a Google Street View From Above appeared first on SingularityHub.

A Florida family has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming their son's suicide was influenced by the company's AI chatbot, Gemini.

A Florida father has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming its AI chatbot played a role in his son's death by creating a fabricated war scenario.

Google just pushed a fresh round of Gemini for Home upgrades, and the headline feature lets your Nest

Google just released the sequel nobody expected to need but everyone apparently wanted. Nano Banana 2, the company’s

Google just gave its Gemini AI a promotion. Starting this Wednesday, the company rolled out a batch of

Taara, a spinout of Alphabet’s X Development subsidiary, has debuted Beam, its first product based on its Taara Photonics wireless communication platform. Taara Photonics, based on optical phased arrays, moves the core functionality of high-speed wireless optical communications into an integrated circuit that controls light electronically. According to the company, this approach enables networks that can be deployed in a matter of hours, scaled more flexibly, and improved over time, without the constraints of trenching fiber or securing scarce spectrum. The proprietary optical phased arrays were developed at X and Taara labs over the past several years. Taara Beam is the first product built on this photonic platform, delivering...

Google disputes critical search evidence in Nancy Guthrie case, raising questions about FBI leads while investigation continues with DNA and surveillance analysis.

Billionaire Les Wexner's congressional deposition revisits his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, exploring how Epstein gained access to elite networks.

Ken Griffin's Citadel Advisors made multiple changes to its vast stock portfolio in Q4, with a focus on reshuffling Mag 7 holdings.

Russia's Supreme Court fines Google 91.5 quintillion roubles in unprecedented legal battle over blocked media accounts. Discover the implications of this historic ruling.

Discover how Google's $15B AI investment in India could shape the digital future of 1.4 billion people—innovation or digital colonialism? Explore the debate on AI sovereignty and corporate influence.

Explore the challenges faced by investigators in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, highlighting the limitations of technology in solving the case.

Discover Google's Pixel 10a with a flat design, improved battery life, and enhanced display durability. Enjoy premium features at a budget-friendly price, including Satellite SOS and advanced camera tools.

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to play more…

Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie say they are waiting on Google in hopes of recovering additional camera footage from her home.

Discover the latest AI advancements and the launch of Google's smart AI glasses at the I/O 2026 conference

The Department of Homeland Security is using administrative subpoenas to compel tech companies to reveal the identities of anonymous critics of ICE.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord to identify Americans posting anti-ICE content.

A report says Reddit, Meta and Google have complied with some DHS administrative subpoenas seeking identifying details for anonymous accounts critical of ICE.

A Memphis man has been arrested for allegedly uploading over 700 files of child sexual abuse material, raising concerns about digital safety and child protection.

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, 70, has been photographed with Gloria-Sophie Burkandt, 27, the model daughter of Bavaria's minister-president, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. They have a 43-year age gap. Schmidt has been married for 46 years.

Gloria-Sophie Burkandt has drawn attention after reports linked the 27-year-old model to former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, 70, sparking widespread online interest.

Michael Burry says Alphabet's century bonds are similar to Motorola's in 1997, after which the company lost prominence and market share to competitors such as Nokia.

DOJ emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein hired a Philippine team to manipulate Google and Wikipedia to hide his crimes online. Their identities remain unknown

Google cofounder Larry Page purchased two Miami properties for $171 million and plans to move businesses out of California to avoid a potential wealth tax of 5%.

Google parent Alphabet posts strong revenue and rising profit margins despite soaring AI and data-centre costs, highlighting robust growth and cloud-driven earnings resilience.

Google plans to spend up to $185 billion on AI in 2026, nearly doubling last year's budget. With $240 billion in cloud contracts waiting, the company has no choice but to build.

Katie Britt's husband, former NFL player Wesley Britt, failed to disclose 22 stock trades under the STOCK Act until months after the required deadline; the senator's office says she had no knowledge of the transactions.

NYU professor Scott Galloway launches 'Resist and Unsubscribe,' urging consumers to cancel subscriptions at 10 tech giants throughout February to pressure CEOs with Trump's ear.

A confidential SEC filing alleges Google violated its own ethical ban on AI-assisted warfare by aiding an Israeli military contractor.

Aerial lidar is transforming how archaeologists map sites, but they should do it in tandem with Indigenous people.

Google's new Android Theft Protection uses AI, biometrics and auto-locking to stop phone thieves in their tracks. Here's how to use it.

Thousands of scientists are already experimenting with the AI to study cancer and brain disorders. The post Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo Decodes the Genome a Million ‘Letters’ at a Time appeared first on SingularityHub.

The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. It comes as immigration agencies have flooded social media with content to support President Trump’s mass deportation agenda—some of which appears to be made with AI—and as…

Google has paid out $200m in settlements, including a privacy lawsuit over unauthorised data collection, raising questions about impact on GOOG stock.

Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the human genome—and could one day lead to new treatments for diseases.

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome AI model could help solve the problem of predicting how variations in noncoding DNA shape gene expression

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex non-coding regions

Google has agreed to pay $68 million in a settlement over claims that its Assistant recorded private conversations and shared data with advertisers without user consent.

The Maia 200 AI chip is described as an inference powerhouse — meaning it could lead AI models to apply their knowledge to real-world situations much faster and more efficiently.

Apple has announced that two new versions of Siri will launch this year backed by their new partnership with Google.

The Samsung Galaxy S26 is poised to revolutionise user safety by adopting Google's exclusive AI scam detection.

Augmented reality-powered smart glasses have seen a muted resurgence lately. Will Google's intervention reinvigorate what feels like a tired concept?

A US judge has ruled that Google must face the consumer antitrust lawsuit served to the company over their dominance of the search market

A federal judge in California has cleared the way for a consumer antitrust lawsuit against Google to proceed,

For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker “Dr. Google.” But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. According to OpenAI, 230 million people ask…

Google co-founder Sergey Bin has openly admitted Google now hires employees with no degree at a Stanford University closing event, signalling a shift in tech firms' hiring processes.

Multiplayer online game slither.io called out Google's AI overview on X after it claimed that it was available on Netflix under the name Snake.io

Google's Android 17 is set to unleash jaw-dropping features, radical UI changes and AI upgrades that could leave Apple iPhones in disarray.

Getting electricity to new data centers has become Google’s most pressing infrastructure headache. The culprit isn’t generating power—it’s

Google addressed the claims that its new AI agent shopping protocol will use data to overcharge consumers, denying them.

Apple's Siri snubbed ChatGPT for Google's AI. The real reason behind Apple's shocking decision will leave OpenAI reeling.

Apple and Google just formalized what many suspected: Google’s Gemini will become the engine driving Apple’s artificial intelligence

Google quietly scrubbed certain AI-generated health summaries from its search results after journalists discovered the automated responses were

Alphabet moved its position into the exclusive $4 trillion club this Monday, powered by a dramatic turnaround in

UK iPhone users will get a major Siri upgrade in 2026 as Apple integrates Google's Gemini AI, enabling smarter conversations, better context and multistep tasks.

According to Wedbush's Dan Ives, it is crucial for Apple to address its 'invisible AI strategy', and a partnership with Google Gemini could serve as a catalyst.

Apple has left its traditional habit of using exclusive in-house technologies in an attempt to reinvent Siri and its AI capabilities, turning to Google's Gemini.

Apple's iOS 26.3 Beta 2 simplifies switching to Android via a Google partnership, sparking industry debate alongside wallpaper refinements and the promise of smarter Siri soon.

Google’s search executives have delivered a clear message to website owners: stop breaking your content into tiny pieces

Google has removed its AI overviews on queries about liver blood tests after an investigation by The Guardian found it shares misleading information

Walmart and Google have teamed up to make shopping fast and easier than ever for everyone with Gemini AI-powered assistant.

The European Union is preparing sanctions against major American technology companies and banks if the US refuses to withdraw renewed claims over Greenland.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, and his wife Wendy are financing an ambitious quartet of telescopes that could

Google Classroom added a feature that lets educators convert their teaching materials into podcast-style audio content using Gemini

A monopoly in a global capitalist system is an oxymoron. Still, when it comes to hardware designed for

Google surges close to $4 trillion in value, overtaking Apple for the first time in six years as AI ambitions put pressure on OpenAI and NVIDIA. What it means for the iPhone maker.

Google announced integrating Gemini AI to Gmail for more productivity; sparking concerns about privacy and data used to train AI models.

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."

Google and AI start-up Character.AI have settled a lawsuit over a teenager's suicide, raising issues about AI safety, mental health risks and Big Tech accountability. Here is what happened.

Schmidt Sciences announces investments in orbiting observatory and three ground-based instruments

Elon Musk suggested that Google improves its Gemini after mistaking 2026 for next year. But, the irony is Grok also made the same mistake.

Theta Labs CEO Mitch Liu's calculated pump-and-dump schemes repeatedly wiped out investor and employee value. He even retaliated when employees raised concerns.

After five years, the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is undergoing a major transformation to challenge Google TV's dominance.

Tech giants Samsung and Google introduce AI TV at CES 2026, suggesting a quiet power play in millions of homes across the globe.

Google's AI-powered search is quietly changing social media in the UK, helping Reddit surge past TikTok to reach nearly 60% of internet users. Here is what changed and why it matters.

Samsung Electronics will push Google’s Gemini AI technology into 800 million mobile devices throughout 2026—doubling last year’s rollout

Google's AI search summaries are giving dangerous health advice, from telling pancreatic cancer patients to avoid fats to misreporting liver test results, misleading users and prompting serious risks.

Which is the best streaming device out there? We've pitted four of the best models on the market against each other to determine the top option.

Google stock 2026: Discover why Alphabet's Cloud revenue could surge 50% and how Waymo's 1 million rides per week aim to drive shares to new record highs.

Is work from home really dead? Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and many others are tightening office rules, and their decisions could reshape how your company expects you to work in 2026 and beyond.

For years, Gmail users have been locked into the addresses they chose at sign-up, but a new official support document suggests this is about to change.