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AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users discovered a genuinely puzzling bug that caused the browser-based Google Docs to crash when confronted with repeated instances of the same word.

User Discovers That Google Docs Crashes When You Type a Specific Phrase

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup called NextSense is working on a pair of earbuds that can record the electrical signals of the brain to study sleeping and mental conditions.

Google Spinoff Working on Earbuds That Spy on Your Brain Signals

By Victor Tangermann

Alphabet Inc decided to temporarily disable live traffic data on Google Maps in Ukraine due to the danger it posed on civilians and troops.

Google Disables Maps in Ukraine After It Revealed Troop Movements

By Tony Ho Tran

There's an extremely extremely disturbing site where users goad each other to commit suicide — and Google won't take it out of its search results.

Google Refuses to Pull Website Responsible for Scores of Suicides

By Noor Al-Sibai

A game designer says someone hacked into her Google Pixel 5a after sending it off to Google for a repair. They looked for nudes and deleted security alerts.

Woman Says Hackers Searched Her Phone for Nudes After Sending to Google for Repair

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google is about to launch a "wildfire" layer on Google Maps that shows whether the surrounding area is currently burning.

Google Maps Now Lets You Know if Your Route Is on Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.

Watch a Raven Attack a Google Coffee Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

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Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A Scottish conservation group claims Google Maps has been suggesting “potentially fatal” routes up mountains — and even directly over cliffs.

Google Maps Is Telling People to Walk Off a Cliff, Critics Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Google's search engine misidentified an engineer's likeness as belong to a serial killer, who happens to have the same name.

Google Algorithm Accuses Random Guy of Being a Serial Killer

By Victor Tangermann

Google is now debuting a new video chat system they’re calling “Project Starline.” It's a 3-D holographic video chat. Here's how it works.

Google Debuts Dystopic 3D Prison-Style Video Chat: Project Starline

By Foster Kamer

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.

Google’s DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

By Dan Robitzski

Google and Alphabet are under fire from their own investors over weak whistleblower protection and poor human rights enforcement.

Google Investors Condemn Company for Punishing Whistleblowers

By Dan Robitzski

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

After irate users tanked Robinhood's rating on Google's app store, Google stepped in to delete the onslaught of one-star feedback.

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Robinhood Reviews

By Dan Robitzski

Robinhood's rating on Google's app store is once again in the gutter, and this time Google says the stock trading company is on its own.

Robinhood Is Down to 1/5 Stars on Google Play

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind AI researchers broke the record for predicting how proteins will assemble. Scientists in the field remain unimpressed.

Scientists Unimpressed by Google’s Protein Folding Algorithm

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

By Dan Robitzski

A group of eagle-eyed Reddit users have already discovered the location of the mysterious ten to 12 foot monolith on Google Earth.

Mysterious Monolith Has Been There For Years, According to Google Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Google's DeepMind AI team built an algorithm called AlphaFold 2 that can solved the protein folding problem with better accuracy than any other team.

Google AI Solves Longstanding, Near-Impossible Biology Problem

By Dan Robitzski

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

At Huawei's request, the Chinese government plans to launch a new antitrust probe into Google over its Android operating system's market dominance.

China Plans to Launch an Antitrust Probe Into Google

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers say that public health officials should be able to identify COVID outbreaks, Bloomberg reports, by examining Google searches.

You Can Track COVID Outbreaks by Google Searches, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

Google is investing heavily in new kinds of wearable technology, including high-tech tattoos that turn your body into a touchpad.

Google Is Working on Tattoos That Turn Your Body Into a Touchpad

By Dan Robitzski

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.

Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

German artist Simon Weckert created his own personal traffic jam on Google Maps by loading 99 smartphones into a small cart and lugging them down a street.

Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones

By Victor Tangermann

Google says a "technical issue" caused its Takeout service to send backups of users' videos to strangers in November 2019.

Google Accidentally Sent Users’ Private Videos to Strangers

By Kristin Houser

Google has unveiled a new chatbot named Meena, which it claims is capable of conversing on a level almost equal to humans.

Google Says Its Chatbot Is Capable of Near-Human Conversation

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Google just published an incredibly-detailed 3D map of neural connections in the brain of a fruit fly, including 20 million synapses.

Google’s 3D Map of a Fruit Fly Brain Will Blow Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

Music website Genius is suing Google and its lyrics partner, LyricFind, for $50 million for allegedly copying lyrics directly from its site.

Genius Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Music Lyrics

By Kristin Houser

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.

Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.

Google Is Secretly Hoarding Your Medical Records

By Victor Tangermann

According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will start offering bank checking accounts to its Google Pay customers.

Google Is Going to Start Offering Bank Accounts

By Victor Tangermann

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.

Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

Contractors hired to collect face scans for Google specifically targeted homeless black people and lied to them about the nature of the collection.

Google Contractors Tricked Homeless Black People Into Face Scans

By Kristin Houser

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

By Kristin Houser

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

By Kristin Houser