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Continue ReadingItaly is asking Google to pay 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in unpaid taxes and penalties, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, seven years after the U.S. company settled a landmark tax dispute with Rome authorities. "We comply with tax regulations in all countries where we operate, including Italy," a Google spokesperson said in a statement, in response to a Reuters query about the claim. The sources said Italy's Revenue Agency has started an adversarial process with Google which may end either with a settlement or with the opening of a judicial litigation...
Continue ReadingGoogle announced its largest ever expansion of Google Translate, with 110 new languages added to the platform in an update made possible by the use of artificial intelligence models...
Continue ReadingGoogle has added Cantonese to its Google Translate service, as part of its largest-ever expansion that saw 110 new languages being supported, aided by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology. From Thursday, users of the app and browser versions of the Google tool can translate between 243 languages, including Cantonese, a Chinese dialect widely spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, parts of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, as well as some Chinese migrant communities worldwide. Goo...
Continue ReadingInvesting.com -- U.S. stock futures edged higher Friday, ahead of the release of key inflation data, which could guide future interest rate expectations...
Continue ReadingYouTube and Google Cloud are key growth drivers for Alphabet, plus, with a reasonable-looking valuation. See why we are bullish on GOOG stock...
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Continue ReadingAI-boom has prompted startups to release new features to their chatbots as competitors such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google and Amazon.com-backed Anthropic are looking to gain market share by engaging new users. The availability of free two-way voice calls on Character.AI's app has come following OpenAI's announcement on Tuesday that the ChatGPT maker's rollout of the advanced voice mode of its latest model GPT-4o is delayed by one month. Character.AI, co-founded by Noam Shazeer, who helped invent "transformer" AI architecture while at Google that underpins systems like Gemini and ChatGPT, enables users to create customized AI companions with specific personalities and values...
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