The donation comes at a time when California billionaires are bracing for a ballot initiative that proposes a 1% wealth tax on the state's ultra-wealthy. Recently, Peter Thiel funneled $3 million to a ...

Google’s new open commerce standard aims to reduce cart abandonment and enable agent-led buying across Search, Gemini, and retailer systems. Google today unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) ...

When Sergey Brin spoke at Stanford University’s school of engineering centennial celebration recently, the Google co-founder was open about his career mistakes. “When you have your cool new wearable ...

Google already owns a minority stake in Intersect from a previous funding round. Once the deal closes, Intersect will be expected to help bring new data centers and power generation online faster, ...

While we’ve made major strides in generating renewable energy, storing that green power to use when the Sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing remains a major engineering challenge. Now, as IEEE ...

Historically, google.com does not change very often. After adding an AI Mode shortcut earlier this year, there’s now a ‘plus’ menu on the Google Search homepage. On google.com, the Search bar now has ...

Google is launching its own pair of AI-powered glasses in collaboration with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker, the company announced in a blog post on Monday, Dec. 8. Google is working with ...

Google added a new section to its core updates search developer documentation confirming it sometimes rolls out smaller, unannounced core updates. Google said this before, but now it’s stated ...

Google's Gemini 3 is rapidly gaining on ChatGPT, prompting an OpenAI "Code Red" and driving Alphabet's stock surge. Google's TPUs are emerging as a major threat to Nvidia's AI chip dominance, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, ramping up its footprint as competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC map out their own multibillion-dollar bets ...

The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted ...