 | UPI transactions: PhonePe continues to dominate, says reportPhonePe continues to dominate and remain a market leader for UPI transactions as its market share alone in terms of total value stood at 49.8% in June 2023. |
 | Google Cloud partners with Jain UniversityThe curriculum will offer students hands-on training, practical labs, and industry-recognised certifications. |
 | Illegal loan apps: Kerala police serve notice to Google, domain name registrar to remove 72 websites, apps from PlaystoreSP (Cyber Operations) Harisankar served the notice on Friday to remove all such apps, including trading apps. Sources said that those apps were removed from the Internet. |
 | Technology buzz: Amazon turbocharges its voice assistant with Gen AIThe firm announced on Wednesday that Alexa will be powered by its new large language model (LLM). |
 | California settles with Google over location privacy practices for USD 93 millionThe settlement resolved allegations as part of the lawsuit that Google’s location-privacy practices violated California consumer protection laws. |
 | It's Google versus the US government in the biggest antitrust trial in decadesFederal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favour by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices. |
 | Apollo taps cloud for telemedicineApollo Hospitals is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to develop various features including AI-based assistive technology for physicians. |
 | AI used to alter imagery or sounds in political ads will need prominent disclosure on GoogleThe Republican National Committee in April released an entirely AI-generated ad meant to show the future of the United States if President Joe Biden is reelected. |
 | Google Cloud partners with CERT-In to train govt officials in cybersecurity skillsCERT-In is part of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), which deals with cybersecurity threats, hacking and other cyber-related issues. |
| Google to require political ads to disclose AI creationsThe change to Google's ad policy is to take effect in November, about a year ahead of what is likely to be a contentious US presidential election. |
 | As Google turns 25, Sundar Pichai commits Google's future to AIPichai says AI will be the "biggest technological shift in our lifetimes.. even bigger than internet itself" and using it to organize the world's information is Google's new challenge |
 | Meta, Google baulk as Canada spells out new online news lawEffectively it targets only Google and Meta -- which control about 80 percent of all online advertising revenues in Canada. |
 | Google unveils changes before strict EU rules kick inGoogle's latest steps include expanding its "Ads Transparency Center", where users will find more information about targeting for ads in the European Union. |
 | ‘Can’t have safe harbour if Google violates trademarks’The use of trademarks as keywords by Google in its Ads Programme does amount to “use” under the intellectual property law and, in case of infringement, it cannot claim benefit of “safe harbour”. |
 | Tech giants form AI group focused on ensuring safetyAnthropic, Google, Microsoft, and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said the newly created Frontier Model Forum will draw on the expertise of its members to minimize AI risks and support industry standards. |
 | Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White HouseThe four tech giants, along with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and startups Anthropic and Inflection, have committed to security testing “carried out in part by independent experts”to guard against major risks |
 | Google doodle celebrates Indian-American minimalist artist Zarina Hashmi's 86th birth anniversaryHashmi became internationally known for her striking woodcuts and intaglio prints that combine semi-abstract images of houses and cities where she had lived. |
 | 42 lending apps pulled down for harassing people in KarnatakaHe expressed concern over celebrities promoting such gaming apps, which lure youngsters to indulge in online gambling. |
 | Embracing regional language tech for wider reachNLP helps in understanding and generating human language through algorithms and computational linguistics. |
| France fines Google $2.2 million over incomplete results in search engineThe Competition, Consumer and Anti-Fraud Office said the US tech giant's search engine lacked information concerning the ranking criteria of results. |
