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With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.

As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.

“Being a C.E.O. sucks. Elon was right. It is like looking into the abyss and chewing glass.”

Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday by accusing Apple of antitrust violations.

A partnership would extend the long relationship between the companies that has helped deliver everything from maps to search on Apple’s devices.

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in California and accused of uploading hundreds of files to the cloud.

The tech giant has recently spent more than $1 billion to resolve several legal claims as more battles with the Justice Department loom.

The company has suspended Gemini’s ability to generate human images while it vowed to fix the historical inaccuracy.

Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.

A year ago, a rogue A.I. tried to break up my marriage. Did the backlash help make chatbots too boring?