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Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle

The numbers are in, and the cloud infrastructure market grew at a brisk pace this quarter driven by increasing interest in generative AI.

Google dubs Epic’s demands from its antitrust win ‘unnecessary’ and ‘far beyond the scope’ of the verdict

The new filing, along with Epic's proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions to take next to put Google’s power in check.

Google expands passkey support to its Advanced Protection Program ahead of the US presidential election

Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google is bringing passkey support to its Advanced Protection Program (APP), which is used by people who are at high risk of targeted attacks, such as campaign

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference

Google told TechCrunch that Flutter will have new updates to share at I/O this year.

Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps and services. So what is Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to the competition? To m

Google’s new ‘Speaking practice’ feature uses AI to help users improve their English skills

Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills. The company told TechCrunch that the feature is available to English lea

It’s a sunny day for Google Cloud

Google Cloud had a blockbuster quarter, driving parent company Alphabet's revenues — and stock price — to impressive highs.

Security bugs in popular phone-tracking app iSharing exposed users’ precise locations

The location-sharing app iSharing, which has 35 million users, fixed vulnerabilities that exposed users' personal information and precise location data.

Google-backed Glance pilots Android lockscreen platform in US

Glance, which operates a popular lockscreen platform targeting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S. market. The Indian startup recently commenced a pilot program in partnership with

Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel

Google has terminated the employment of 28 staff following a prolonged sit-in protest at the company’s Sunnyvale and New York offices. The employees were protesting against Project Nimbus, a $1.

Alphabet X’s Bellwether harnesses AI to help predict natural disasters

The world is on fire. Quite literally, much of the time. Predicting such disasters before they get out of hand — or better yet, before they happen — will be key to maintaining a reasonable

India scrambles to curb PhonePe and Google’s dominance in mobile payments

The NPCI plans to meet various fintech startups this month to develop a strategy to address the market dominance of PhonePe and Google Pay in the UPI ecosystem.

Google Wallet appears in India, with local integrations, but Pay will stay

Google Wallet will finally launch in India — nearly two years after its relaunch as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. — according to a preview of the app that the company accidentally

ShareChat’s valuation drops below $2B after new funding round

Social media startup ShareChat's valuation has cratered below $2 billion from nearly $5 billion in a new funding round.

Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far

Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year's Google Cloud Next.

Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free

Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to Pixel devices and paid subscribers — including it

TechCrunch Minute: Google’s Gemini Code Assist wants to use AI to help developers

Can AI eat the jobs of the developers who are busy building AI models? The short answer is no, but the longer answer is not yet settled.

Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor

Google says its Axion instances offer 30% better performance than other Arm-based instances from competitors.

Google open sources tools to support AI model development

Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro enters public preview on Vertex AI

Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code.
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