A former Google software engineer has been indicted on charges of stealing AI trade secrets from the tech giant and passing them on to Chinese companies. Linwei Ding, who also goes by Leon Ding, was ...

Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (Pittpatt), a company that has developed facial recognition technology, months after it backed off from rolling out a face recognition smartphone app ...

A Google software engineer has been fired a month after he claimed the firm's artificial intelligence chat bot LaMDA had become sentient and was self-aware. Blake Lemoine, 41, confirmed in a yet-to-be ...

Google has fired a software engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence had become self-aware and sentient. Blake Lemoine was placed on leave at the company last month, after he said publicly ...