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TotalEnergies wins 21-year deal to power Google data centres in Malaysia

The power supply contract is expected to take effect in the first quarter of next year

Malaysia aims to have 70% of its installed power capacity be renewables by 2050, from about 26% last year, according to BloombergNEF.

Google signs solar power pact in Malaysia with Shizen Energy

The agreement highlights efforts by global tech firms to decarbonise their energy-intensive operations such as data centres

OpenAI touted GPT-5.2 Pro and GPT-5.2 Thinking as its best models yet for handling math or science work.

OpenAI beefs up GPT models in AI race with Google

OPENAI released its latest artificial intelligence models on Thursday, shrugging off worries about how it will cash in on massive spending in its technology race with Google.

Google was charged by the European Commission in March with favouring its own services over competitors.

Google faces EU fine next year for favouring own services, sources say

[BRUSSELS] Alphabet’s Google is expected to be fined by EU antitrust regulators next year for not doing enough to comply with EU rules against favouring its own services and products in search results...

The EU is concerned Google may have used content from web publishers to generate AI-powered services on its search results pages without appropriate compensation.

EU launches antitrust probe into Google's use of online content for AI purposes

It wants to know whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators

Competition is heating up in the emerging category of AI and augmented reality, or AR, glasses.

Google says first AI glasses with Gemini will arrive in 2026

Samsung Electronics, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are among its early hardware partners

Apple, Samsung, and Google opposed New Delhi mandating always-on phone location services with no user disable option.

India weighs greater phone-location surveillance; Apple, Google and Samsung protest

Modi’s govt revoked a state cyber safety app preload order after privacy and snooping concerns

The value of TPUs was corroborated by the launch of Alphabet’s latest Gemini AI model, which received glowing reviews and is optimised to run on the chips.

Alphabet’s TPU AI chips are a potential US$900 billion ‘secret sauce’

The success of TPU chips is a primary reason for the company’s 31% fourth-quarter share rally

Amazon is releasing Trainium3 about a year after deploying its predecessor accelerator.

Amazon rushes out latest AI chip to take on Nvidia, Google

AWS is the largest seller of rented computing power and data storage