Federal prosecutors have indicted three Silicon Valley-based Iranian engineers on charges of stealing confidential information from Google and other major technology companies and transmitting sensitive data to Iran.
The FTC is ramping up its investigation of Microsoft, sending a new round of investigative requests to the company’s competitors regarding the tech giant’s practice of bundling of AI, security and identity software in its offerings.
Google has disclosed that multiple state-backed hacking groups, including a North Korean threat actor, have been utilizing its Gemini AI platform to enhance reconnaissance activities and accelerate various stages of cyber attacks.
The Trump administration is exploring measures to require technology companies building data centers to absorb all associated utility and infrastructure costs as electricity prices continue to rise across the United States.
Google’s Waymo has begun paying gig economy workers from DoorDash and other platforms to close robotaxi doors left open by customers. The self-driving vehicles are stuck in place when doors are left open, a common occurrence for the company.
Gail Slater, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division resigned on Thursday after reportedly losing the support of key cabinet officials. Slater approved multiple mergers for Woke Disney while also holding up American companies taking on China’s Huawei.
The FBI successfully retrieved critical video footage of a person of interest in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping from her Google Nest doorbell camera despite the device being disconnected with no active cloud storage subscription. The FBI was able to retrieve footage from Google’s “backend systems,” raising privacy concerns about smart home devices.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube are defending themselves in a Los Angeles courtroom against accusations that they intentionally designed their platforms to addict young users, as opening statements began Monday in a landmark trial that could reshape how social media companies operate.
More than 900 Google workers have signed an open letter calling on the tech giant to sever its business relationships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
Leading tech companies experienced a massive selloff over the last several weeks, with more than one trillion dollars erased from their combined market valuations as investors expressed concern over ballooning AI expenditures.
Amazon revealed plans Thursday to invest $200 billion in 2026 on data centers, satellites, and infrastructure as part of its aggressive push into artificial intelligence, surpassing Wall Street projections by $50 billion. Shares dropped almost eight percent in Friday morning trading.
The DOJ and multiple states have filed notices to appeal a federal court ruling in the Google Search antitrust case that imposed limited restrictions on the internet giant’s conquest of the search and AI market.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos testified on Capitol Hill this week where he defended his company’s $83 billion merger deal with Warner Bros.
Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the company improperly collected cellular data from Android smartphone users without their permission.
Tech giants Apple and Google are offering numerous AI-powered applications on their app stores that can generate non-consensual nude images from ordinary photographs, according to a new report from industry watchdog Tech Transparency Project. The report comes after a global scandal erupted at Elon Musk’s Grok AI generated sexual deepfakes of women and children and posting them on X.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, China’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube are set to face their first courtroom trial this week over allegations that their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive design features.
Snap, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat has reached a settlement agreement in a major social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding what would have been the first trial testing claims that tech platforms deliberately designed products to addict young users.
A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has raised concerns about OpenAI’s financial sustainability, predicting the AI startup could deplete its capital reserves within the next year and a half, at which point it would be swallowed by another tech giant.
YouTube has more viewers than all BBC channels combined, industry figures reveal, yet Britain’s TV tax -seems unlikely to be abolished.
The FCC voted this week to close a loophole that allows criminals to more easily profit from stolen smartphones — fueling retail theft and strengthening organized crime networks involved in trafficking devices.
An investigation has revealed that Google’s “AI Overview,” found at the top of most searches, provided users with false and potentially harmful medical information when they searched for health-related information like what the results of a liver function test meant. The search giant has scrubbed AI Overviews off the web in the cases of medical misinformation researchers uncovered.
Sergey Brin has reportedly restructured multiple business entities in California, following a similar pattern established by his Google cofounder Larry Page, as the state prepares to vote on a proposed wealth tax targeting billionaires.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta revealed on Friday a comprehensive series of nuclear power agreements designed to supply electricity for its expanding AI infrastructure across the United States.
Since you are a Breitbart News reader, you are aware of Google’s “unprecedented algorithmic suppression” of Breitbart News in search results. That’s actually what Google’s own Gemini 2.5 Pro AI calls it. However, Google has recently launched a “Preferred Sources” feature that allows you, with just a few clicks, to designate Breitbart News as a source to include in the “Top Stories” section of Google search results.
Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits that accused the artificial intelligence chatbot company of contributing to mental health crises and suicides among teenagers and young users.
Google cofounder Larry Page has officially moved multiple business entities out of California, completing the transfers before a year-end deadline related to a proposed billionaire wealth tax in the state. Page is currently the second-richest person in the world.
A concert venue in Canada canceled a scheduled fiddler after Google AI wrongly labeled him a sex offender, prompting a potential lawsuit.
An autonomous Waymo taxi took a wrong turn and drive straight into an active fire scene in Los Angeles, California.
Low-quality AI-generated content is saturating YouTube, generating an estimated $117 million in revenue annually, according to new research. The study found that more than 20 percent of the videos shown to new users on the platform fall into the category of low effort posts popularly known as “AI slop,” with many channels posting content aimed at children.
The assassination of Turning Point USA founder and conservative icon Charlie Kirk garnered the most search inquiries of any news story of 2025 in the world, an end-of-year analysis of Google Trends data shows. “Charlie Kirk” was the top Google search of the year in the United States.
A woman’s frantic attempt to rebook a missed flight turned into a costly crash course in business-impostor scams — now supercharged by AI and slipping through Google’s ad filters.
Google and Apple have cautioned their H-1B visa workers against traveling outside the United States, citing substantial delays in visa processing that could last up to a year.
The UK government is set to encourage tech giants Apple and Google to implement nudity detection algorithms in their device operating systems, aiming to protect users from viewing explicit content.
Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, accusing the tech giant of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” with its generative AI tools.
Google has agreed to a $700 million settlement in an antitrust lawsuit, resulting in millions of U.S. customers being eligible for refunds from the tech giant’s Play Store. Here’s how you can claim yours.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using web publishers’ content for AI purposes without appropriate compensation.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has sounded the alarm over alleged “quid pro quo” arrangements after many tech companies donated to renovating the White House ballroom; yet the Massachusetts progressive received nearly $2 million from tech platforms over her political career.
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees Monday that the company is declaring a “code red” effort to improve the quality of ChatGPT and delaying other products as a result, according to an internal memo viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has urged the United States to establish a national framework for AI regulation to maintain its competitive edge against China. Google wants the federal government to override states moving to protect their citizens from the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.
Michelle Ritter, a 31-year-old tech entrepreneur and former mistress of Democrat mega-donor and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has accused the billionaire of rape, surveillance, and other abuses in a Los Angeles County Superior Court filing.
