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Distillation has ranked as a top concern among American AI developers since DeepSeek rattled global markets in early 2025 with its R1 release.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google unite to combat model copying in China

Trump administration officials have signalled their openness to fostering information sharing among AI companies to rein in adversarial distillation

 the sharp spike in oil prices from the Iran war has rekindled inflation concerns, with market participants repricing interest-rate expectations for this year.
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Further downside expected for the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index

It could continue to pull back towards the 6,400 level, representing a 10.6% downside from the current price

If you do plan on changing your e-mail address, remember: Google limits users to one new address every 12 months.

Goodbye ‘Geeky Hunk’? Gmail users can now change their usernames

There is a light at the end of the tunnel for those who thought it would be hilarious, in the mid-2000s, to make a profanity, a body part or a song lyric part of their Gmail addresses.

Development comes years after US tech giant Google, under parent company Alphabet, acquired Fitbit in a US$2.1 billion deal.

End of an era: Fitbit Singapore winds up as Google completes takeover of fitness tracker brand

Move marks a curtain call for Fitbit Singapore about 11 years after it was registered here in February 2015

TPU sales have become a crucial growth engine of Google’s cloud revenue as it seeks to prove to investors that its AI investments are generating returns.

Meta signs multi-billion-dollar deal to rent Google AI chips: report

The Facebook owner has also signed a deal with Nvidia to buy its current and future AI chips

The ratepayer protection pledge marks the latest step in Trump’s push to address a significant political challenge, mounting electricity prices, before the November midterm elections.

Trump summons Amazon, Google, Meta to sign power-cost pledge

Analysts say major tech firms behind the AI data centre boom are happy to pay more for the power they need

Google and unnamed partners terminated Google Cloud projects controlled by the hacking group, and identified and disabled the Internet infrastructure it was using.

Google disrupts Chinese-linked hackers that attacked 53 groups globally

The group has a nearly decade-long history of penetrating government bodies and telcos

Last month, Anthropic’s release of a legal plug-in ignited an US$830 billion global sell-off in software and services stocks.

Anthropic touts new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout

The new plug-ins target investment banking, HR and engineering tasks

The Sea-Google partnership builds on Sea's existing tie-ups with Google, such as the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Programme with Shopee, which runs in all its markets in South-east Asia, Taiwan and Brazil.

Sea and Google ink partnership to develop AI-powered tools

This involves all three of Sea’s business units – Garena, Shopee and Monee