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Australia will force Meta and Google to pay for news shared on their platforms under a new scheme unveiled on Thursday, threatening to tax them if they refuse to strike deals with local media.

Traditional media companies the world over are in a battle for survival as precious advertising dollars are hoovered up online.

Google has announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.

CEO Sundar Pichai said the new model would mark what the company calls "a new agentic era" in AI development, with AI models designed to understand and make decisions about the world around you.

A group of Turkish lawmakers has completed preparations for a digital copyright law that mandates payments for the use of online content produced within Türkiye, says the head of the Digital Media Commission.

Google and the United States government concluded closing arguments on Nov. 25 in a federal court case centered around allegations of the tech giant's dominance in online advertising.

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

Google has strongly stated that forcing the company to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser, would negatively impact both consumers and businesses.

The U.S. will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report.

Bloomberg reported that antitrust officials with the U.S. Department of Justice will ask for a sell-off of Chrome and a shake-up of other aspects of Google's business in court today.

“How easy is it to move to Denmark?” “Can I go to Canada? To Australia?” Disappointed Americans seem to be asking themselves these questions after the election results, turning to Google to search for the countries where it’s easiest to relocate.

Apple reported revenues that narrowly surpassed analyst expectations as it enjoyed a boost from iPhone sales.

The company saw quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion in the three months ending September 28, up from the same period last year.

Revenue in greater China, however, showed weakness, falling slightly from the same period a year earlier to $15 billion.

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company's headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas.

The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late on Oct. 24, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington.