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Google employees are unhappy with the salary hike received this year and have made it known to the upper hierarchy during a recent all-hands meeting, according to a report in Business Insider. Employees complained that they saw smaller pay bumps in compensation packages for 2025 despite…
An Indian-origin Google techie has listed six lessons she learnt during her six-month internship at the tech giant. In a LinkedIn post, titled, “6 Months at Google- 6 things I’ve Learned so Far,” Aashna Doshi posted lessons about dealing with imposter syndrome and adopting an attitude…
A mother who is suing Google and Character.ai over the death of her son has been ‘horrified’ to find that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots based on her late son are being hosted on the platform. Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide last…
Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claims it pays white and Asian employees more and even puts them on a higher career track than other workers. The lawsuit was led by Ana Cantu, a Mexican who is racially…
San Francisco: Alphabet’s Google launched an experimental version of its search engine on Wednesday that completely eliminates its classic 10 blue links in favor of an AI-generated summary. The new feature, available to subscribers of Google One AI Premium, can be accessed via the results page…
Washington, United States: TikTok has returned to Apple and Google app stores nearly a month after a new security law forced its removal, AFP journalists confirmed on Thursday. The Chinese-owned social media platform faces being banned in the United States over national security concerns about the…
San Francisco, United States: Google on Monday changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” for those using its Maps platform inside the United States, complying with an executive order by President Donald Trump. The tech giant wrote in a blog post that…
New Delhi: In a significant departure from its earlier commitments to not use artificial intelligence in the fields of weapons or surveillance, Google has updated its ethical guidelines on the same. The company’s original 2018 AI principles explicitly prohibited AI applications in four areas: weapons,…
Washington DC: The “Gulf of Mexico” will be shown as the “Gulf of America” to Google Maps users in the United States after the name change ordered by the Trump Administration is officially updated on the federal mapping database, the Alphabet-owned company announced on Monday. The…
Former US president Joe Biden’s tenure at the White House was completely omitted from Google search queries that included “US Presidents”, “United States Presidents” and “US Presidents in order”, a report in The Independent has claimed. For a brief period on Thursday (Jan 23), social media…