YouTube was also last month added to an Australian ban admitting users aged under 16, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing site.
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AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser
Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser’s more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race.
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Alphabet shares rose more than 3% in early trading as the Google parent’s earnings underscored a key message to investors: AI spending is climbing, but so are the returns.
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A sweeping cyber-espionage campaign organization centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft’s server software has now claimed about 400 victims.
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A security patch released by Microsoft last month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in U.S. tech giant’s SharePoint server software that had been identified in May.
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The U.S. government announced a newly inked deal, worth up to $200 million, to begin utilizing Grok, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot — representing a push to modernize the Defense Department.
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