Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
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GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain "express consent" from […]
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Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
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You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in […]