Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage. A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.

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Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.

Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results. With Audio Overviews, Gemini AI models quickly sum up query results in conversational style,

CoreWeave has emerged as a winner in Google's newly signed partnership with OpenAI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest example of the voracious appetite for computing resources in the artificial-intelligence industry and the formation of new alliances to meet them.

Reports revealed that AI rivals Google and OpenAI struck a deal to provide OpenAI with Google’s cloud computing services.

Under the new deal, Google Cloud will provide additional computing capacity to help OpenAI train and run its AI models. For OpenAI, the partnership addresses growing demands for computing power as the company's annual revenue reached $10 billion as of June, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters.

OpenAI plans to add Alphabet’s Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, sources tell Reuters.

The partnership gives the ChatGPT-maker access to Google's cloud services for training new AI models - and more distance from Microsoft.

OpenAI’s chairman Bret Taylor reveals he leans on the advice of former Google and Facebook executives on the value of embracing new opportunities in tech. Ditching the planned career path has worked well as he’s taken on roles like co-CEO at Salesforce and chair at Twitter: “Especially in Silicon Valley,