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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – MAY 16: The exterior of the new Google Bay View campus is photographed on Monday, May 16, 2022, in Mountain View, Calif. The 42 acres campus totals 1.1 million square feet, with two office buildings, an event center, and 20 acres of open space. (Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Google will pay $700 million to settle state claims its Android app store stifled competition

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 16: Google CEO Sundar Pichai (R) speaks in conversation with Emily Chang (L) during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Google loses antitrust battle with Epic Games as jury finds app store is an illegal monopoly

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

File – Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, takes part in a discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. A federal court jury is expected to begin its deliberations Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in an antitrust trial focused on whether Google’s efforts to thwart competition against its app store for Android smartphones has also been illegally gouging consumers and stifling innovation.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Google’s antitrust battle with Fortnite-maker Epic Games is heading to the jury to decide

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

Google DeepMind

Google’s Gemini AI launches to the public, with search engine on the way: ‘We made a ton of progress in what’s called factuality’

By Michael Liedtke, Matt O'Brien, and others

Cruise driverless taxi in San Francisco's Mission District.

GM’s Mary Barra set on ‘righting the ship’ at Cruise as it faces $1.5m fine for alleged coverup of robotaxi accident that got it booted from California

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

FILE – Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney exits a courtroom at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Nov. 14, 2022, in San Francisco. Sweeney portrayed Google as a bully that resorts to shady tactics to maintain a predatory payment system during Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, testimony in an antitrust trial focused on his company’s attempt to upend Google’s store for Android phone apps. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

Satya Nadella

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella sets record straight on AI in Biden summit: ‘We finally have a technology that understands us, not the other way around’

By Michael Liedtke, Barbara Ortutay, and others

FILE – Google CEO Sundar Pichai leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gives ‘rocking 75 minutes’ of tense testimony in Fortnite antitrust trial

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

Sundar Pichai

Fortnite maker Epic Games accuses Google of using a ‘bribe and block’ strategy to thwart competition

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

Sundar Pichai

Fortnite’s lawsuit against Google heads for trial with Sundar Pichai due to take the stand

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

FILE – Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Google on Monday, Nov. 6, will try to protect a lucrative piece of its internet empire at the same time it’s still entangled in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. The latest threat will unfold in a San Francisco federal court, where a 10-person jury will decide whether Google’s digital payment processing system in the Play Store that distributes apps for phones running on its Android software has been illegally driving up prices for consumers and developers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Google’s antitrust problems grow as a new trial begins, this one targeting its Play Store

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company’s new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. If government regulators prevail in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century, it’s likely to unleash drastic changes designed to undermining the dominance of the Google search engine that defines the internet for billions of people. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

How a Google loss in its antitrust trial would affect your searches on the internet

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 22: People wait in line to purchase new Apple iPhone 15 models at the Apple The Grove store on the phone’s worldwide release day on September 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. The four new iPhone handsets feature a titanium frame, 48 megapixel main camera, and a USB-C charging cable. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Your next iPhone might be pricier after the Google antitrust trial: ‘Google has essentially been subsidizing the cost of devices’

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

FILE – The iPhone 15 phones are shown during an announcement of new products on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Apple on Saturday, Sept. 30, blamed a software bug some other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to overheat and sparking complaints about being too hot to handle. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Your iPhone 15 is getting too hot because of a software bug tied to apps like Instagram and Uber, says Apple

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

File – Netflix’s first CEO, Marc Randolph, poses outside the Santa Cruz, California, post office in May, 2022, where he had mailed a Patsy Cline CD to the company’s co-founder Reed Hastings, to test whether a disc could make it through the mail. The Netflix DVD-by-service will mail out its final discs Friday from its five remaining distribution centers, ending its 25-year history. (AP Photo/Mike Liedtke, File)

Netflix cofounder calls DVD-by-mail service—now ending—‘unsung booster rocket’ that sent company into orbit

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press