The world's richest tech billionaires increased their fortunes by 750 billion last year - with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg topping the list. Forbes has released its annual roster of the world's wealthiest technology tycoons - and the profit increases they saw in 2023 are eye-watering. Bezos, 60, added 80 billion to his net worth, while Zuckerberg, 39, enjoyed a whopping 113 billion increase to his net value. Of the planet's 342 billionaires who made their fortune in the tech industry - earning a combined income of 2.6 trillion last year - Bezos tops the list. Bezos' net worth surged 80 billion to 194 billion in 2023, according to Forbes.

In September 1998, Google was created in a garage by two Stanford University students – a humble beginning to say the least. Who would have thought a quarter of century later it would be the world's most used search engine with unprecedented access to our personal data? To mark its 25 birthday, Google has packed its site with Easter Eggs, including a new Google Doodle – a temporary alteration of its logo – with '25' in place of where the two Os would normally be. Meanwhile, if you enter'Google 25th birthday' into the search bar, colourful confetti will rain down over your results. The tech giant has also brought back its'birthday surprise spinner', which lets you play interactive games from its archives, including Pac-man, Snake and Tic-tac-toe.

Recent reports say that Google co-founders are looking for ways to tackle the Open ChatGPT platform. This AI-driven platform is proving to be a threat to Google's search business. Since its inception back in November 2022, some people have turned to it to get answers to various questions. With its training, this AI-driven platform can answer even complex questions to the best of its ability. Sometimes its answers might be wrong, but this doesn't stop it from having a response to give users.

Computer scientist and entrepreneur Sergey Brin is one of the co-founders of search engine giant Google. He currently has a net worth of $83.6 billion, making him one of the world's wealthiest people. Here are some of the things you should know about the successful billionaire businessman. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on Aug. 21, 1973, in Moscow, Russia, to Jewish parents Michael and Eugenia. He and his family moved to the United States in 1979.

The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. The multi-billion dollar technology titan has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings in the dorm rooms of Stanford University just two decades ago. Here's a look at the history of Google and what a Google Doodle is. Google's newest Doodle marks the company's milestone 20th birthday in September 2018 Google's history dates back to 1995 at Stanford University in Stanford, California after prospective graduate school student Larry Page met Sergey Brin, a student at the college assigned to show him around. After becoming friends, both Page and Brin developed a search engine from their dorm rooms known as Backrub in 1996 designed to improve online search by using links to determine the importance of website pages.

In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being shown around the Palo Alto, California campus. "I thought he was pretty obnoxious," Larry Page said of the encounter. "He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too." "We both found each other obnoxious," said Sergey Brin.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that the current boom in artificial intelligence has created a "technology renaissance" that contains many potential threats. Writing in the company's annual Founders' Letter, published Friday, the Alphabet president struck a note of caution. "The new spring in artificial intelligence is the most significant development in computing in my lifetime," writes Brin. "Every month, there are stunning new applications and transformative new techniques." But, he adds, "such powerful tools also bring with them new questions and responsibilities."

Artificial Intelligence began as a philosophical conundrum in ancient times, developed into a science fiction forecast (and warning) in the Modern Era and is a practical reality today. This shows that from the earliest known period of human history to the present day it has been a subject of interest to some of the brightest minds and powerful personalities. Here's a run-down of some of the most insightful, important or accurate things which have been said: Alan Turing was a pioneer in bringing AI from the realm of philosophical prediction to reality. He realized in the 1950s it would need greater understanding of human intelligence before we could hope to build machines which would "think" like us. "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."

Mobile phone apps took center stage at Google's annual developer conference on Wednesday as the search giant announced new features for its digital assistant and its popular photo app while devoting little time to the Android mobile operating system. Addressing an audience of thousands of developers in Mountain View, California, Google executives delivered a broad-based update to their product portfolio which also included a slate of new features for the Google Home speaker, a job search tool and even a set of new virtual reality headsets. Meet Google's first 19 employees Meet Google's first 19 employees Only six of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant -- and these include co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, others angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies. A few are happily retired. In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where there careers have taken them. Of the first 21 employees, only six are still at the company.

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and one of the most successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, says he did not foresee the artificial intelligence revolution that has transformed the tech industry. "I didn't pay attention to it at all, to be perfectly honest," he said in a session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos. "Having been trained as a computer scientist in the 90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it, they tried neural nets and none of it worked." Fast-forward a few years and Google Brain, the company's AI research project, has advanced so much that it now, as Brin put it, "touches every single one of our main projects, ranging from search to photos to ads … everything we do. "The revolution in deep nets has been very profound, it definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there." Now that AI is here to stay, its future and potential uses have become even more difficult to predict. "What can these things do?