Category: Google

Google Whistleblower Unveils the Truth

In this episode of Counterculture, Danielle looks at how the Left uses artificial intelligence to push their agenda of critical race theory and Marxism. She interviews former senior engineer Zach Vorhies, a Google whistleblower, about his experience at Google and how the company changed leading up to Donald Trump’s election in 2016. He shows us…


Google Says It Will Volunteer Its Top Execs to Testify at Parliamentary Committee

OTTAWA—Google says it will volunteer some of its top executives to testify at a parliamentary committee. In a statement, the company says it aims to work constructively with the heritage committee that is studying the actions of Google after the Silicon Valley giant ran a five−week test that blocked news links to some of its…


America’s Biggest Livestreaming Service Raises Monthly Subscription

Subscribers to Google’s YouTube TV will see their monthly fee increase from $64.99 per month to $72.99 per month starting in mid-April, the streaming service announced on Thursday. “Due to the rising cost of content, we’re updating our membership pricing to reflect the complete value of YouTube TV,” according to a notice released by the…


Microsoft Cuts AI Ethics Team as It Invests Billions More Into AI Technology, Report Says

The last remaining members of an ethics and society team within Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) department didn’t survive a recent round of mass layoffs, according to a report. The change comes as Microsoft signs a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment” deal with OpenAI, the startup behind AI-powered image and text generators like DALL-E and ChatGPT, and upgrades…


Google and Microsoft Rushing to Widely Implement Generative AI

The explosive interest in OpenAI’s ChatGPT has tech giants scrambling to capitalize on generative AI in the wider market. On March 14, Google announced that it will begin packing virtually all of its Workspace products with generative AI—an artificial intelligence chatbot that is capable of generating creative output from simple user prompts. According to Google’s…


Judge Rules Against Google, Keeps DOJ Advertising Case in Virginia

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—A U.S. federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to move a Justice Department lawsuit against it over dominance in advertising technology from Virginia to New York. “I am going to rule against you,” Judge Leonie Brinkema told an attorney for Google. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit…


Google to Stop Blocking News for Some Canadian Users Next Week, MPs Hear

Google executives appearing before a House of Commons committee on March 10 said the online search-engine giant would stop running tests next week that are currently blocking news content for some Canadian users. Google said in late February that it had blocked news for some Canadians as part of a test it was running in…


Samsung Galaxy Owners Urged to Download ‘Critical’ Update Today

A nonprofit security group issued an alert this week telling Google Android smartphone users to update their systems as soon as possible due to “multiple vulnerabilities” that could allow for an attacker to remotely install programs or delete data. So far, March’s updates have already rolled out for some of Samsung’s Galaxy phones but not…


Technical Difficulties Delay Committee Meeting That Google Exec Was Set to Attend

A parliamentary committee that was set to hear from the head of Google Canada is hoping to reschedule her appearance for later this week. The heritage committee was set to hear from Sabrina Geremia after MPs summoned her and three other Google executives to appear today. While Geremia technically fulfilled the summons by showing up,…


Commons Committee Summons Google Execs on News Links Blocking

A House of Commons committee decided on Feb. 28 to summon Google executives to testify over the company’s decision to test the blocking of news links in response to the Liberal government’s Bill C-18. “I think it’s important for Parliament to take a look and see what Google is doing, I don’t particularly like their…