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Microsoft decided to invest in OpenAI after a warning from a company official that Google had taken a big lead in the technology, Ars Technica reports.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Elastic's Area VP for Australia and New Zealand, Gavin Jones, talks to iTwire from the company's ElasticON conference in Sydney.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Matt Riley from Elastic talks to iTwire about corporate search, analytics and where the company is heading.

US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire caught up with Ben Cefalo and Anoop Dhankhar at the recent MongoDB .local Sydney event hosted earlier this month. Ben is one of the company’s Product Vice Presidents while Anoop is the Regional Vice President for the Australian and New Zealand business, responsible for all the go to market activities in this part of the world.

GPU maker Nvidia and machine learning collaboration platform operator Hugging Face are working together to provide generative AI supercomputing to the developers of large language models and other advanced AI applications.

A federal judge in Washington has cleared the way for a government lawsuit against Google over alleged blocking of competition in the search market to proceed from 12 September.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has reported an increase of 7% in annual revenue for the second quarter which ended on 30 June, pulling in US$74.6 billion (A$109.9 billion).

The world's first ad-free and private subscription search engine, Neeva, has launched in Australia seeking to bring a trustworthy, honest and tracking-free search experience to our shores. The platform was founded by former Google and YouTube executives and has gained more than a million users overseas.

Is it BingGPT? No, it's a chat mode of Microsoft Bing search, and while the waitlist process made me download the Bing mobile app, the chat mode is on available on the web, via the Edge Dev beta browser, so what is it like?

Mel Silva, the MD of Google Australia, has published an extensive blog post celebrating the company's journey, starting with one employee in 2002, to over 2,000 local Googlers in 2022, providingly nearly $67 billion in annual economic value to Australia, alongside a range of other notable achievements, and a whole lot of interesting searches - read on!

The last 12 months have seen normally stable Splunk go through a whirlwind of change in the top brass but new CEO Gary Steele says he sees his role as a 10+ year commitment and is here to stay, while new ANZ Exec Mark Troselj sees the region undergoing growth.

Search behemoth Google has put off until May changes to the privacy settings in Google Workspace, having earlier indicated that it would take effect on 30 March (29 March in the US), the American website Ars Technica reports.

The US Department of Justice has accused Google of making "excessive and intentional efforts" to misuse its attorney-client privilege and hide business documents relevant to an anti-trust suit filed against the search firm in October 2020.

The second-highest court in the European Union will deliver its verdict on 14 September on an appeal by Google against a €4.34 billion (US$4.77 billion, A$6.46 billion) fine imposed on it by the European Union in 2018 for allegedly breaching anti-trust rules relevant to Android.

GitHub has unveiled a technology preview giving an early look into the website’s progress in helping developers explore and discover code while remaining focused on their goals.

There's now a single solution to manage all of the information in your organisation, structured and unstructured, with AI to classify it all, and it's an Australian success story making waves on the global stage doing what was once infeasible - and today, a must for every organisation.

There's now a single solution to manage all of the information in your organisation, structured and unstructured, with AI to classify it all, and it's an Australian success story making waves on the global stage doing what was once infeasible - and today, a must for every organisation.

Search giant Google has won an appeal against a £3.2 billion (A$5.85 billion) class action lawsuit in the UK, with the country's Supreme Court rejecting the efforts of Richard Lloyd, made on behalf of a group known as Google You Owe Us.

The General Court of the European Union has dismissed an appeal by Google and its parent company Alphabet against a fine of €2.42 billion (US$2.77 billion, A$3.79 billion) levied for abusing its dominant market position for online general search services in 13 EU countries.