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(Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government.The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations."Physically impe...

(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government and military with AI and cloud services.Most Read from BloombergThe protests, which were led by the No Tech fo...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.The contract with Alphabet-owned Google is worth about $60 million per year, according t...

Google has initiated significant layoffs across its various teams, including the Voice Assistant, hardware, engineering and ad sales teams, marking a continuation of the tech industry’s trend towards reducing workforce expenses. The layoffs have affected hundreds of employees within the Voice Assistant unit; hardwar...

Mark Zuckerberg laid out Meta's gameplan for "playing to win" against Alphabet and Microsoft in the high-stakes AI arms race. Meta's secret weapon: its walled garden of data."There are hundreds of billions of publicly shared images and tens of billions of public videos, which we estimate is greater than the common c...