While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is over AI. Google has now taken Gemini to its next level, causing consternation across some users at the difficulties in disabling the features on platforms such as Gmail.

Microsoft has suddenly backtracked after being caught “ tricking ” users, with a homepage designed to look and feel like Google’s own when Windows users searched for Google itself. The head of Chrome accused the Windows-maker of a “new year, new low,” criticizing its “long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.”

Google accused Microsoft of attempting to deceive people recently with a Bing interface that looks like the UI of Google. Microsoft appears to have rolled back the interface.

Microsoft is trying out another new tactic to stop people from switching to Google products -- and it's even dodgier than the last one.

Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups to get people to ditch Google. Microsoft has even previously had to reverse pop-up ads inside Google Chrome to address “unintended behavior.”

Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

DeepSeek could face hurdles that might stifle its growth, particularly due to China’s data policies and Chinese startups’ history of misleading consumers and at times entire countries about the true n

Nvidia shares' 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever, trailing only a record it set in July.

Nvidia experienced a historic $589 billion market value loss, triggered by Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI breakthrough. DeepSeek's affordable R1 AI model, rivaling top Silicon Valley models, raised concerns about sustainability and affected major tech stocks.

The chip has broken new ground in a key random circuit sampling benchmark, an important development in Google's roadmap for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

The U.K. antitrust regulator says Microsoft is using its software market strength to limit competition from Amazon and Google in cloud services.

Google said it will follow the government’s lead. Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, respectively.