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Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
By Rich Stanton published
news The company claims that AI will help solve the AI emissions problem.

Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
By Andy Edser published
news Is Nvidia worried? Somehow, I doubt it.

Those erroneous search results were just the AI doing its job, says Google—"Prior to these screenshots going viral, practically no one asked Google that question"
By Andy Edser published
news Poor AI Overview, being put to the mercy of the internet. Give it a break, would you?

Google seemingly leaked a treasure trove of technical search algorithm details by accident and now SEO people are getting real aggro
By Jeremy Laird published
news Early analysis claims that Google has "lied" about about how its Search platform works.

Google's new AI search feature has been recommending people drink urine ('light in color')
By Dave James published
news Thankfully there are a couple different ways to opt-out of the new Google AI service it's automatically opting you into.

We don't have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google's new nonsense-free 'Web' search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
By Ted Litchfield published
news Web search is great, and it's not too hard to set it to be your default.

Always keep backups: an 'unprecedented' Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund's entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks
By Ted Litchfield published
news Thankfully, UniSuper kept backups for its backups.

Google looks intent on breaking the business of the internet, and AI won't fix it
By Jacob Ridley published
Hi, Gemini New AI search tools may be sold as useful to users, but what's in it for the people creating quality content?
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