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Google sets Sept. 15 NYC event to unveil Googlebook laptops

Google Alphabet Inc. has officially confirmed a dedicated media event in New York City on September 15 to unveil its new Googlebook laptop platform, according to invitations received by Chrome Unboxed. The event will mark the first full public showcase…

Google and UK launch AI trial to cut aviation contrails over North Atlantic

Google Alphabet Inc. and the UK government on Tuesday announced Operation Blue Skies, the world's first state-backed trial to use artificial intelligence to reduce climate-warming contrails across an entire oceanic airspace. The £5 million, 30-month programme will test whether small…

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Google Gemini can access all Workspace data by default

Google's Alphabet Inc. Gemini AI assistant has default access to business data across the entire Google Workspace ecosystem — including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Chat — unless administrators actively navigate to the admin console and disable it. The configuration,…

Google plans to move all Pixel production out of China by 2027

Google Alphabet Inc. has told suppliers it intends to manufacture all Pixel smartphones, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds outside China starting next year, according to an exclusive report by Nikkei Asia published on Tuesday. The move would make Google the second…

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Google launches Pixel 11 with on-device Gemini AI and $100 price hike

Google Alphabet Inc. officially unveiled its Pixel 11 smartphone lineup at its Made by Google event in New York on August 12, introducing four new devices built around deeper integration of its Gemini AI assistant and a new in-house processor,…

Google reportedly taps AMD to co-develop next-gen TPU chip

Google Alphabet Inc. has reportedly enlisted AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. to help develop one of its 10th-generation Tensor Processing Units, a collaboration that would mark AMD's first major involvement in a custom AI accelerator project and signal a shift…

Google and SpaceXAI escalate AI price war with new discount models

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, August 12, claiming its latest model matches frontier-level performance from OpenAI and Anthropic while undercutting them on price — the latest salvo in an intensifying AI price war that saw Google Alphabet Inc. release…

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash as flagship Pro model remains delayed

Alphabet's Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, a new AI model built for software coding and automated business tasks, just three weeks after launching its predecessor — but still offered no timeline for its delayed flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro…

Google spotlights Gemini Omni AI model after crossing 1 billion users

Google Alphabet Inc. is riding a wave of momentum for its AI efforts this week, publishing an expert roundtable on its Gemini Omni model, celebrating a billion-user milestone for its Gemini assistant, and expanding the platform's ecosystem with new connected…

Google unveils Pixel 11 with higher prices, less RAM

Google Alphabet Inc. unveiled its Pixel 11 lineup on Wednesday, August 12, confirming price increases and reduced RAM configurations across multiple models as the global memory chip shortage continues to reshape smartphone economics.

Google unveils wearable insulin resistance tracking, a first for consumer devices

Google Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday announced Health Guardian, a suite of proactive health features for its Pixel Watch and Fitbit wearables that includes the ability to track insulin resistance trends over time — a first for consumer wearable devices. The…

Brin pushed Google AI staff to ‘go all in’ on Gemini, Reuters reports

Alphabet announced a sweeping leadership overhaul of its Google DeepMind AI division on August 5, with co-founder and longtime CEO Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day operations in favor of his deputy, Koray Kavukcuoglu. The restructuring, driven by mounting competitive…

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag tracker

Google Alphabet Inc. held its Made by Google 2026 event on Wednesday, unveiling four new Pixel 11 phones, the Pixel Watch 5, and a new Bluetooth tracker called the Pixel Tag — the company's first direct competitor to Apple's AirTag.

Google launches sign language-to-text AI on Pixel 11

Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind today introduced a sign-language-to-text model called SL2T, marking the first time sign language AI has shipped inside a consumer smartphone feature. The model powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11, launching…

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup with Gemini AI and Tensor G6

Google Alphabet Inc. unveiled its Pixel 11 lineup on Wednesday at the Made by Google 2026 event in New York, introducing four smartphones powered by the company's new Tensor G6 chip and deeply integrated with its Gemini AI assistant. The…

Google’s Gemini reaches 1 billion users amid AI leadership shakeup

Alphabet is reshaping the leadership of its most important AI division as it races to keep pace with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly Google DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect, has been elevated to senior vice president…

Google announces three new subsea cables across the Americas

Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Tuesday announced three new submarine cable systems as part of a broader push to expand digital connectivity across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, positioning the Dominican Republic as a central junction in its…

Google’s Gemini app reaches 1 billion monthly users

Google Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing product in the company's history and its 14th product to reach that threshold.

Google tests global AI opt-out for publishers after UK order and Cloudflare ultimatum

Google Alphabet Inc. is confronting a growing revolt from publishers, regulators, and infrastructure providers over its practice of using a single web crawler to serve both traditional search and its AI products — a strategy critics say gives the company…

Google quietly canceled Gemini 3.5 Pro, Semi Analysis says

Google Alphabet Inc. has quietly shelved its much-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro model, according to a new institutional note from Semi Analysis, the semiconductor and AI research firm. The report argues that rather than delivering the flagship model promised at Google…

Google open-sources TPU Raiden library to rival Nvidia’s inference stack

Google Alphabet Inc. has open-sourced TPU Raiden, an inference optimization library that handles KV-cache data movement between chips during large language model serving. The repository is live on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license, marking one of the clearest signals yet…

Hassabis steps back from DeepMind as four top AI scientists depart Google

Google DeepMind is entering a new era. Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning co-founder who built DeepMind into one of the world's foremost AI laboratories, is stepping back from day-to-day leadership to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of…

Google in talks for $1.5B+ deal with AI coding startup Mechanize

Google Alphabet Inc. is in talks for a deal worth more than $1.5 billion with Mechanize, a San Francisco-based AI coding startup, according to a report by Business Insider published on Tuesday. The arrangement would involve Google hiring some of…

Google chief scientist departs after 27 years to launch AI startup Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and one of its longest-serving employees, is departing the company after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, a startup aimed at automating the scientific method using artificial intelligence. He is joined by three other prominent…

Google pulls Earth AI image tool after deepfake outcry

Google Alphabet Inc. removed an AI-powered image generation feature from Google Earth after researchers, journalists, and open-source intelligence analysts demonstrated it could easily produce misleading satellite imagery of fabricated events.

Google to shut down Assistant on Android Sept. 4, replacing it with Gemini

Google Alphabet Inc. has begun notifying Android users that Google Assistant will be discontinued starting September 4, 2026, marking the end of a decade-long run for the voice assistant that launched in 2016. Gemini, the company's next-generation AI-powered assistant, will…

Apple’s revamped Siri AI works at last, but critics say it’s already behind

Apple has rolled out its long-awaited overhaul of Siri in the iOS 27 consumer beta, delivering an AI assistant that finally works as promised — only to find that the broader AI landscape has already sprinted past the finish line.

OpenAI engineer says Google built a ChatGPT-like bot a year before OpenAI

An OpenAI engineer who previously worked at Google Alphabet Inc. has claimed the search giant developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot nearly a year before OpenAI's November 2022 launch but chose not to release it over fears it would cannibalize its search…

Google pulls Earth AI image tool one day after launch over deepfake concerns

Google Alphabet Inc. rolled back an AI image generation feature from Google Earth on Friday, just one day after launching it, following swift and widespread criticism from journalists, security researchers, and open-source investigators who warned the tool was a recipe…

Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% in a year, data shows

Google Alphabet Inc. Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year, according to Chartbeat data shared with Axios, as AI-generated answers increasingly replace the traditional links that once drove readers to websites.