Google has agreed to pay $35.8 million (A$55 million) fine in Australia after admitting it made illegal deals that blocked rival search engines from Android phones. The company admitted wrongdoing and agreed to the penalty. It is now up to the court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are appropriate, the Australian Competition

If you use a Mac at work or elsewhere, then you inevitably use Spotlight, Apple’s helpful search tool that has been blessed with a variety of productivity-enhancing improvements in macOS 26 Tahoe. Apple calls this the “biggest Spotlight update ever,” so it’s time to look at what’s new. The big picture is that Spotlight Search has become

In its efforts to deploy AI tools, international services firm Wolters Kluwer has created frameworks to ensure responsible AI development with continuous human oversight. The Dutch company has woven AI into its core products for more than a decade, products that now drive about 50% of digital revenue. Wolters Kluwer’s strategy is to create an

Anthropic has introduced a new feature in its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models that allows the generative AI (genAI) tool to end a conversation on its own if a user repeatedly tries to push harmful or illegal content. The new behavior is supposed to only be used when all attempts to redirect a conversation

Otter.ai and other call recording, note-taking apps like Read.ai and even Google Gemini have become handy tools for many enterprise users, automatically kicking off in the background and providing full transcripts of calls and key meeting takeaways. But some see the services as intrusive and, according to a complaint filed last week in California on

Power users of OpenAI’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company’s recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model. Those who became familiar with the convivial and sycophantic tone of GPT-5’s predecessor were particularly distraught by its “cold” and far less supportive demeanor, accusing OpenAI of cutting corners. The pushback was significant enough for OpenAI

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24 hours after declaring that its newfangled GPT-5 would be accompanied by the “deprecating” of all previous models. The scale of the blowback from angry users was staggering. Those who had become accustomed to the “sycophantic”

As the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence slows to a crawl, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting desperate. Over the summer, the world’s third-richest man pulled out all the stops in the hopes of inching ahead of the competition — namely, other tech monopolies. In his quest, Zuckerberg offered ten-digit salaries to poach

Malaysia’s race to build a homegrown AI workforce has entered a new phase with Huawei’s pledge to train 30,000 local professionals, as the country’s freshly minted National Cloud Computing Policy (NCCP) creates the regulatory foundation for a sovereign yet globally-competitive digital economy. Speaking at the Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC 2025, Digital Minister Gobind

The artificial intelligence company Perplexity’s audacious offer to acquire Chrome has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, but questions remain about whether the move represents a genuine strategy or a calculated publicity stunt. Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser last Tuesday, a figure that exceeds the startup’s own $18 billion