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AI demand skyrocketing, Google aims to build new data centres in space

The US technology giant plans to launch its first trial equipment by early 2027, paving the way for full-scale constellations of tightly packed, solar-powered satellites

Are your Gmail passwords secure?

A massive global data breach has reportedly exposed 183 million passwords from Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and other major email providers, with cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt warning users to reset their credentials immediately.

'Willow chip is 13,000x faster': Sundar Pichai teases Google's 'verifiable' quantum leap, Musk says...

Google’s Willow chip has achieved the world’s first verifiable quantum advantage, running a complex algorithm 13,000 times faster than one of the fastest supercomputers

How OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser will be different from Chrome and others

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, its first-ever AI-powered web browser, designed entirely around the ChatGPT interface. With features like conversational search, memory recall, and autonomous 'Agent Mode', Atlas aims to revolutionise web navigation and challenge Google Chrome’s long-held dominance

Sundar Pichai welcomes Accenture veteran Karthik Narain as Google Cloud’s chief product and business officer

Narain’s new responsibilities are broad, covering product and engineering teams across key areas like cloud, data, developer tools, and Applied AI.

‘Jagged intelligence’: Why Google DeepMind CEO Hassabis is warning about AI

Hassabis said that on the one hand Google's Gemini models equipped with DeepThink is capable to win gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, it "still makes simple mistakes in high school maths" on the other

YouTube down: Why the video streaming service faced a major outage

YouTube and its related streaming apps, YouTube Music and YouTube TV, suffered a global outage on Wednesday, affecting over 800,000 users. The platform began displaying error messages around 7 pm ET (4:30 am IST Thursday), with mobile apps displaying, ‘something went wrong’. Google later confirmed that the issue was resolved. But what caused the outage?

Google announces world’s largest AI and data hub in Visakhapatnam, to invest $15 bn in 5 years

In a landmark development, Google announced plans to establish its largest artificial intelligence and data centre hub in Visakhapatnam. The tech giant will invest $15 billion in India over the next 5 years.

Data of 5.7 million customers stolen and leaked online, says Australian airline Qantas

A cyberattack on software giant Salesforce has led to the theft and online leak of 5.7 million Qantas customer records, alongside data from several global corporations

'Work from Anywhere' not valid for 'work from home': Google memo to employees

Google is reportedly imposing more stringent guidelines for its employees, adding more restrictions to its remote working policy. A new report has suggested that the tech giant is updating its "Work from Anywhere" policy, which was introduced during the pandemic