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To win the artificial intelligence race, Google not only has developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to preserve its competitive edge, Google has kept its ownership stakes in those start-ups a secret. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal Google’s stake in one of…
In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that a court break up the search giant. The request followed a landmark ruling last year by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…
Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores in the United States on Thursday evening, several weeks after they removed the short-form video platform in compliance with a new law that banned it in the country. President Trump tried to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban with an executive order, but the companies were…
In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with legal problems and burning through cash. So Uber gave it away to another start-up. But five years later, Uber’s future seems as tied to autonomous vehicles as ever. The company is now…
Google tried for years to diversify its work force, saying it would hire and promote more women and people from racial minorities. On Wednesday, the company abandoned employee diversity targets, saying that as a federal contractor, it needed to comply with President Trump’s executive orders opposing diversity, equity and inclusion policies. In 2020, Google announced…
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported sales that narrowly fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, weighed down by disappointing growth in its cloud-computing division, which sells the company’s artificial intelligence tools to other businesses. The Silicon Valley giant reported revenue of $96.5 billion in its most recent quarter, an increase of 12 percent from a year…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies…
In July 2023, Google said it would no longer restrict advertisers from using trademarks that belong to other organizations. That change quickly became a headache for nonprofits that buy Google search ads to find donors. Other outfits, they discovered, were using their trademarks in order to draw internet traffic. Samaritan’s Purse, a nonprofit that aids…
President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses. Counting President-elect Donald J. Trump himself, there are at least a dozen billionaires among his cabinet picks and those headed for senior roles in the…
Hours before a new federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect, the social media app showed users a pop-up message that said it would be “temporarily unavailable” starting on Sunday. “We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19,” the message said. “We’re working…
