1+ hour ago   (836+ words) The lawsuit was filed by California resident Jeff Kessler, who owns six.com domain names, according to Domain Name Wire, which reported on the case Sept. 4. Kessler alleges that agreements governing the.com registry have entrenched Verisign’s position as its…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (449+ words) European lawmakers are urging the European Commission to preserve the option of structural remedies against Google in its ad-technology enforcement, signaling that Brussels should not necessarily follow the approach taken by a U.S. court. Members of the European Parliament have called…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (389+ words) Google is giving Gmail users a way to avoid manually searching their inbox, according to a Thursday (Sept. 3) company blog post. Gmail Live is part of a larger series of new voice artificial intelligence offerings for Gmail, Google Docs and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (764+ words) Reddit is facing antitrust counterclaims from search-data provider SerpApi, which alleges the social-media company restricted competing search engines from crawling its public discussions while maintaining privileged access for Google under a partnership reportedly worth about $60 million a year. The allegations…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (494+ words) European Union competition regulators are asking publishers whether a new Google mechanism allowing them to keep their material out of artificial-intelligence search features goes far enough to address concerns about competition and the use of online content, according to Reuters....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (395+ words) ChatGPT Ads hit a $1 billion annualized pace in under 200 days, a climb that took Google’s ad business took roughly four years to make. The ads work differently than anything on Google or Facebook. Instead of guessing from a keyword or…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (433+ words) To that end, the Meta-owned social media platform announced Monday (Aug. 31) that it is taking steps to make sure AI-created profiles are clearer. That means renaming Instagram’s AI creator label to “AI-generated profile” to make it more obvious to users…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (819+ words) Google will stop applying a controversial search-ranking penalty to users across much of Europe, a policy shift aimed at addressing European Union competition concerns and reducing the risk of another potentially large regulatory fine. The Alphabet Inc. unit is changing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (273+ words) Google has released a new interactive button that publishers can embed on their pages to enable readers to select them as a preferred source of information, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 20) blog post. “So far, people have already…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (431+ words) The settlement calls for Alphabet’s Google to provide $630 million for consumers and $70 million for states. Google has denied wrongdoing. Donato had indicated at an April 30 hearing that he intended to approve the agreement, but a final order had remained outstanding....