The settlement requires Google to change its Google Play terms of service and the setup screens for new Android mobile devices.

Hayete Gallot joined Google in April 2025 to spearhead a new division focused on helping customers adopt the company's cloud products.

By Mike Scarcella Jan 30 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to reject a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties over the company’s past collection of data from users who had switched off a key privacy setting.

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

What is auto browse? It's a feature that brings an agentic experience directly to Chrome via Gemini. Google's AI assistant Gemini will appear on a right-hand sidebar within Chrome, allowing users to chat and interact directly with websites within the web browser.

The tech giant did not admit wrongdoing in the case.

A federal jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding, 38, of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets after an 11-day trial in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

By Paul Sandle and Muvija M LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Britain said it wanted Google to change its search services to give businesses and consumers more choice, including allowing publishers to "opt out" of their content being used in its AI Overviews or to train standalone AI models.

Google is empowering its Chrome browser with the ability to alter imagery and a virtual assistant to help with online tasks as part of its push to turbocharge its digital services with more artificial intelligence technology.

Google and Apple hosted dozens of AI "nudify" apps that allow users to create non-consensual lewd images and deepfakes. Read on!

By Zaheer Kachwala Jan 30 (Reuters) - Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google rolled out its artificial intelligence model capable of creating interactive digital worlds with simple prompts.