Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Summary AI startup Perplexity has offered $34.5 billion to purchase Google’s Chrome browser as it seeks to challenge Google’s dominance in web…
Australian Federal Court Rules Apple and Google Engaged in Anti-Competitive App Store Conduct Summary Australia’s Federal Court has found that Apple and Google breached competition law by using their app-store…
Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages Summary Microsoft has launched an aggressive recruiting drive targeting Meta’s AI engineers, compiling a spreadsheet of Meta…
Microsoft Releases Lightweight Office Taskbar Apps for Windows 11 Summary Microsoft has begun rolling out “Microsoft 365 companion apps” for Windows 11 business users. These lightweight taskbar apps automatically launch…
Google Will Now Let You Pick Your Top Sources For Search Results Summary Google is rolling out a new feature called ‘Preferred Sources’ in the United States and India. A…
AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview Summary Major employers including Google, Cisco and McKinsey are bringing back face-to-face interview rounds to counteract AI-assisted cheating in remote…
UK Government Suggests Deleting Files To Save Water Summary The UK National Drought Group has urged members of the public to consider small actions — including deleting old emails and…
China Urges Firms To Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Resumes Sales Content summary Bloomberg reports that Beijing has asked local companies to avoid using Nvidia’s H20 processors, especially for…
Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users Summary Meta’s Threads has passed the 400 million monthly active users mark, gaining roughly 50 million users in the last…
Sloppy AI Defences Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 and related panels, researchers warned that rushed and careless AI deployments are reintroducing…
