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Science

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

11:22am July 12, 2024

by Dara Kerr

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

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Shares for Google's parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer.

National

Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

1:15pm February 09, 2023

by Emily Olson

Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

Workers help set up the Google booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center before the start of the CES tech show, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Las Vegas.

National

Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January

8:02am January 20, 2023

by Mary Yang

The layoffs at Google follow similarly huge cuts at Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce. Tech companies who hired rapidly during the pandemic now face fears of recession.