The increasing use of artificial intelligence is driving up energy consumption for tech companies like Google. Green search engines have emerged to offset the environmental impact of online searches.

Consumers who use generative AI services like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others should expect that most AI software providers may use AI chat data to train future systems, though most providers ...

A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently ...

Google is making an ambitious play for a bigger slice of the 21st century’s most important market: the chips that power artificial intelligence. Its financial might and years of technical development ...

To stop Google from using your search data to help train its AI, go to myactivity.google.com, open Search Services History, and turn off Save Media, Search History, and Personalized Recommendations.

Google's gonna start using your search-oriented images and audio to train its AI systems — unless you explicitly tell it "no thanks." Heads-up, my fellow Android-appreciating animals: Google’s in the ...

Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ...

But as we all know, AI can get things wrong. When asked how to keep cheese from sliding off pizza, it suggested glue, a response that immediately went viral. (At least it recommended non-toxic glue.) ...

A Google software engineer was accused Wednesday of using confidential company information to make over $1.2 million on Polymarket in the second significant criminal case tied to trades on the ...

Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million from bets on Polymarket that used insider information. The employee, Michele Spagnuolo, has ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a keynote address at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, in Mountain View, California. Roger Lynch, the CEO of Vogue and Vanity Fair parent company Condé Nast, recently ...

From a reimagined search box to AI agents that hunt for apartments on your behalf, Google Search is being rebuilt with AI at its core. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...