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Google is a US company providing internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, and software and advertising technologies. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company has established itself in the mobile sector through its widely used Android operating system, and has a major presence in the smartphone market.
CEO / Managing Director
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
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google.com
Headquarters address
Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.
Stock Code
NASDAQ:GOOG
NASDAQ:GOOGL
Year founded
1998
A Waymo robotaxi drives by the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on Monday. Photo: AFP
United States

‘Unusual activity detected’: US woman gives birth in Waymo self-driving taxi

The mother and child arrived safely at a San Francisco hospital, and the vehicle was taken out of service for cleaning.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba creates new unit to push consumer use of its Qwen AI models

American Samoa

L&G Asset Management sees AI equity upside despite US$3 trillion debt concerns

Taiwan

Taiwan blocks mainland Chinese platform RedNote citing ‘high fraud risk’

Island’s digital affairs ministry says five Chinese apps collect sensitive data, access biometric functions and ‘extract system information’.

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Taiwan authorities have announced an internet shutdown and access restriction order for RedNote, tentatively for one year. The app is also known as Xiaohongshu or “little red book”. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Can China fund its AI push? Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt casts doubt

Capital from the government and Big Tech firms is set to make up for any lack of market-driven capital, analysts say.

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Artificial intelligence

Opinion | AI market will only have room for so many winners

There is not enough room in the market for all those raising billions to invest in AI, and there will inevitably be more losers than winners.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek catching Google, OpenAI should spur US tech ‘code red’

The new version of DeepSeek’s AI model is competitive with Google and OpenAI, underscoring how Chinese developers are challenging the US even when forced to rely on less advanced chips.

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India

India scraps mandatory cybersecurity app on new phones after backlash

The Indian government confidentially ordered companies like Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi to install the Sanchar Saathi app on their new phones.

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI CEO declares ‘code red’ to improve ChatGPT as rivals move in

The call comes after Google released its Gemini 3 AI model last month that gained praise for its capacity to reason and code.

Australia

Fight’s over: YouTube becomes last major platform to accept Australia’s age rule

Despite agreeing to comply, YouTube maintains that it is still ‘fundamentally different’ from other social media services.

Six-year-old Enrique Navarro watches a show on YouTube at his home in western Sydney on October 30. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

Ant Group’s LingGuang a hit as users create millions of flash apps with AI tool

The multimodal AI assistant can generate simple apps in as little as 30 seconds in response to users’ prompts.

Ant Group’s AI tool Lingguang has churned out millions of flash apps since its launch two weeks ago. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model

DeepSeek’s V3.2-Speciale equals Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in reasoning capabilities, the Chinese start-up says.

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Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

‘With you in hour of need’: volunteers rally to help Hong Kong fire displaced

Volunteers, mobilised mostly through social media and chat groups, worked tirelessly to get supplies to affected residents.

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

DeepSeek on Thursday made its Math-V2 open-source AI model widely available. Photo: Shutterstock
Malaysia

From Singapore to Malaysia, tech firms double down on AI despite bubble fears

Bubble bursting? Not here. Meet the regional founders who see a potential global AI crash as a ‘healthy’ correction.

An electronic chip board used for AI processing. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

AI scaling hasn’t reached a dead end yet, Chinese Google scientist says

Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up takes on Google in tensor processing unit race

Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical engineer.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks

Meta is reportedly in talks to use Google’s TPUs in data centres, as the search giant challenges Nvidia’s market dominance.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a conference in Washington last month. Photo: AFP
Alibaba

AI Singapore picks Alibaba’s Qwen to drive new regional language model

In a boost for China’s AI ambitions, AI Singapore has chosen Alibaba’s Qwen to train its new language model.

Singapore

Singapore orders Apple, Google to stop fake government message scams

Police told the tech giants to block spoofed government accounts on iMessage and Google Messages to tackle rising fraud threats.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic says its new AI model is better at coding and office work

Claude Opus 4.5 is the first to score higher than the company’s human candidates on a take-home engineering assignment, firm says.

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Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 4.5 is the world’s best model for coding. Photo: dpa
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen chatbot sets record by topping 10 million downloads in debut week

Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s open-source model family of the same name, Qwen is the firm’s most significant foray into the consumer AI market.

The Qwen chatbot was developed by Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud services unit of Alibaba Group Holding. Photo: Shutterstock
China-EU relations

Ireland business chamber welcomes Chinese investment despite US, EU pressures

Dublin Chamber of Commerce CEO says country welcomes business ties ‘within EU rules’, notes existing partnerships in tech and pharmaceuticals.

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Asean

Why Asean’s AI ambition may lead to widening economic and tech divide

While countries such as Singapore and Malaysia are ahead in the AI race, others like Cambodia and Laos risk being left behind, analysts say.

Artificial intelligence

Google’s new Gemini model puts China’s AI start-ups on the defensive

It highlights the daunting challenge faced by Chinese AI start-ups to compete against firms like Google with massive resources.

Google’s new Gemini model represents a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability, according to executives. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Google launches Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet

Gemini 3 is able to transform information between formats and generate visuals or apps from single prompts, the company says.

Google has debuted an updated version of its AI model, Gemini. Photo: Dreamstime/TNS
United States

Meta defeats US antitrust case over Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions

The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in Trump’s first term.

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United States

Google CEO warns no firm ‘immune’ if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom era fears

Sundar Pichai warns of AI market ‘irrationality’ and energy demands, despite it being an ‘extraordinary moment’ of investment.

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