alphabet Alphabet Ends Loon Balloon Internet Project Over Costs Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its experimental balloon-based internet venture, because it fails to achieve a sustainable business model. The closure comes alongside news of a redesigned MacBook Air and Google's search threat in Australia.
alphabet Alphabet Ends Loon Project After Failing to Make Balloon Internet Viable Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its ambitious high-altitude balloon internet project, because the business model remains unsustainable. The division fails to find a reliable path to commercial success despite achieving significant technical milestones.
google Google Threatens to Shut Down Australian Search Over News Payment Law Google warns it will disable its search engine in Australia if the government passes a law requiring the tech giant to pay news publishers for links and snippets. Facebook also opposes the proposed digital news code and previously threatens to block news sharing entirely.
google Google Threatens to Disable Search in Australia Over News Payment Law Google warns it will pull its search engine from Australia if the government passes a law requiring tech companies to pay news outlets for their content. The dramatic standoff highlights growing global tensions between Big Tech and the media industry.
alphabet Alphabet Shuts Down Loon After Failing to Build Sustainable Business Alphabet ends its Loon project, which used high-altitude balloons to deliver internet to remote areas, after the initiative fails to become financially viable.
alphabet Alphabet Shuts Down Loon After Failing to Sustain Balloon Internet Business Alphabet is winding down Loon, its nine-year-old project that uses high-altitude balloons to deliver internet to remote areas. The company pulls the plug after failing to find a sustainable business model despite recent successful commercial deployments in Kenya.
alphabet Why Alphabet's Loon Balloons Failed to Close the Global Internet Gap Alphabet shut down its Loon project after years of trying to deliver internet via high-altitude balloons. The ambitious initiative ultimately fails due to unsolved financial and technical hurdles.
anthony levandowski Trump Pardons Former Uber Engineer Convicted of Stealing Waymo Trade Secrets President Trump grants a full pardon to Anthony Levandowski, erasing his 18-month prison sentence for stealing self-driving car documents from Google. The controversial move draws support from tech leaders despite the judge calling it the biggest trade secret crime he had ever seen.
anthony levandowski Trump Pardons Former Google Engineer Convicted of Self-Driving Trade Secret Theft Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski receives a full presidential pardon after serving time for stealing driverless car trade secrets. The move has backing from notable tech figures including Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.
anthony levandowski Trump Pardons Former Google Engineer Anthony Levandowski for Trade Secret Theft Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski receives a full presidential pardon for stealing self-driving car trade secrets, avoiding his 18-month prison sentence. The pardon draws support from major tech figures including Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.
google Google Drops Parler From App Store Over Violence Concerns Google removes Parler from its Play Store due to a lack of content moderation, while Apple issues a warning that it may take similar action.
amazon Amazon Web Services Drops Parler Over Failure to Moderate Violence Amazon joins Apple and Google in severing ties with Parler, citing the conservative social platform's inability to remove violent content related to the Capitol riot.
tesla Musk Clashes With Waymo CEO Over Superior Autonomous Driving Tech Elon Musk responds to Waymo's CEO by claiming Tesla possesses superior AI hardware and software despite Waymo's massive budget. The dispute highlights the fundamental divide between Tesla's driver-assist approach and Waymo's fully autonomous vision.
tesla Waymo CEO Dismisses Tesla Autopilot as Wrong Path to Full Autonomy Waymo CEO John Krafcik states that Tesla will never achieve full autonomy by simply upgrading its Autopilot driver-assistance system. He views Tesla as a developer of a good driver-assistance tool rather than a competitor in the fully autonomous vehicle space.
google Google Unveils Switch Transformer, a Trillion-Parameter AI Model Google Research introduces the Switch Transformer, a massive language model with 1.6 trillion parameters that uses a Mixture of Experts approach to remain computationally efficient. This new architecture is six times larger than OpenAI's GPT-3.