

Google spent 2.1 billion dollars buying Fitbit in 2021, three years dismantling the brand, and on Thursday launched a 100 dollar device with no screen, no buttons, and no independent functionality to bring it back. The Fitbit Air is a soft fabric band with a five-gram sensor pack underneath that tracks heart rate, steps, […]



Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction in click-through rates to the websites whose content those summaries are built on. Penske Media has filed an antitrust lawsuit. The […]

OpenAI built a ten billion dollar consulting company. Anthropic built a 1.5 billion dollar consulting company. Google is writing a licensing agreement. The difference in approach may determine which AI lab captures the largest new enterprise distribution channel to emerge since the birth of cloud computing itself: the portfolio companies of the world’s biggest private […]


The proposals filed in Brussels aim to settle the European Commission’s investigation into whether Google has been demoting publishers’ pages with third-party advertising content. Failure to settle could expose Alphabet to penalties up to 10 per cent of global revenue. Google has filed a remedies offer with the European Commission proposing changes to how it […]
