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Google should share search data to break its monopoly, European Commission suggests

The executive body of the EU requests that Google comply, in a move viewed as 'a shift in control over how enterprise information is interpreted by machines.’

By Paul Barker

Apr 16, 20266 mins

GovernmentLaws and RegulationsProductivity Software

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The double-sided brilliance of Google's new native Windows app

Google's new Windows app is well worth your while to notice — both for your own practical benefit and for appreciating the impossibly clever play behind it.

By JR Raphael

Sep 18, 2025 8 mins

Generative AIGoogleMachine Learning

Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

This? This is it? Instead of being broken up, Google gets a slap on the wrist.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Sep 8, 2025 6 mins

GoogleLaws and RegulationsProductivity Software

No breakup for Google: Court opts for behavioral fixes over structural split

Judge Mehta’s ruling keeps Google’s core businesses intact, introduces a six-year data-sharing mandate, and acknowledges AI as a new competitive force.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 3, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceProductivity SoftwareTechnology Industry

The Google-Apple search deal judgment: Should genAI firms worry?

TL;DR: Yes, I think they should.

By Jonny Evans

Sep 3, 2025 5 mins

AppleGenerative AIGoogle

Google to pay $36M fine in Australia over anticompetitive Android search deals

Google agrees to change business practices as the regulator says deals with Telstra and Optus restricted consumer choice.

By Gyana Swain

Aug 18, 2025 5 mins

Productivity SoftwareTechnology Industry

Increasingly common to use Chat GPT instead of Google

One in four people surveyed by Adobe Express say OpenAI's ChatGPT is now their first choice for search.

By Mikael Markander

Jul 24, 2025 2 mins

Generative AIInternetProductivity Software

This will be the name of OpenAI's rumored browser

'Aura' is expected to have built-in support for ChatGPT, SearchGPT and Operator and could arrive this summer.

By Mikael Markander

Jul 16, 2025 2 mins

BrowsersGenerative AIProductivity Software

Circle to Search for Windows: 4 AI-powered visual search tricks

We've come a long way from traditional search — and Windows is no exception.

By Chris Hoffman

Jul 16, 2025 8 mins

WindowsWindows 10Windows 11

Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites

Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators.

By Lynn Greiner

Jul 1, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceContent Management SystemsProductivity Software