Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...

Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister Anika ...

Most students begin their college search on Google. A quick query of “colleges” returns a mix of AI summaries, sponsored results from for-profit institutions, organic results from public and nonprofit ...

In the wake of Dolly Parton's death, Google has launched a tribute animation honoring the beloved country legend. Parton died at age 80 following a brief battle with cancer on Tuesday, Aug. 25, her ...

Google is working on a new animation for Circle to Search to bring it in line with the Gemini overlay animation. It’s also tweaking the new Gemini Live overlay animation to make it sharper and cleaner ...

From a Joker anime (?) to a Donkey origin story (???), it's been a busy week at the world's biggest animation festival. I was unable to spend this week in Southeast France for the Annecy International ...

Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, using Meta AI to surface answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Sgr A*, the four-million-solar-mass black hole anchoring the Milky Way 26,000 light-years from Earth, has been producing a persistent outflow of hot gas for at least 20,000 years — and astronomers ...

Composite image of evidence for wind blowing away from Sagittarius A*, with the black hole shown as a white dot in the center, cold gas in orange and X-ray data in blue. NASA / CXC / Northwestern ...

I’m not the biggest AI critic in the world, but even I’ll admit it: I don’t always want Google summarizing the internet for me. Honestly, I wish I could turn off AI Overviews. I also don’t want to be ...

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called ...