Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI

KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year’s Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week. This week on the Kettle, systems editor Tobias Mann and cybersecurity editor Jessica...
Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put

Google has spelled out changes it will make to the fees it charges developers who use its app store and payment services, and says they represent the end of its long legal battle with Epic Games. Epic Games’ beef with Google (and a parallel case against Apple) centred...
SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black

SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black

SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google’s claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results. “Google is the largest scraper in the world,” the company...
Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been...
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Google IO Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and its Google subsidiary, opened the 17th annual Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, evangelizing the transformational power of artificial intelligence, as he did last year and the year before that. But amid all the...