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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.

Cloud spending hits $143B in Q2, fastest growth in 8 years

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services surged to $143 billion in the second quarter of 2026, marking a 43 percent year-on-year increase and the highest growth rate in eight years, according to new data from Synergy Research Group, now part…

Google’s Gemini Spark AI agent adds Chrome integration, expands to 160-plus countries

Google Alphabet Inc. on Thursday announced two updates to Gemini Spark, its personal AI agent: a Chrome auto-browse integration that allows the agent to act on a user's behalf inside the browser, and a global rollout that brings the service…

Google says AI-powered tools fixed 1,072 Chrome bugs in just two releases

Google Alphabet Inc. announced Thursday that its use of artificial intelligence has driven a dramatic surge in Chrome security fixes, with the browser's two most recent releases patching 1,072 security bugs — more than the total number fixed across the…

Google faces up to $10B in private lawsuits after EU fine

A decades-long crackdown on Google Alphabet Inc.'s business practices in Europe has entered a costly new phase. Days after the European Commission imposed a €890 million fine — the first penalty ever issued under the Digital Markets Act — comparison…

Google rivals seek up to $10B in damages after EU fine

The European Commission's €890 million fine against Alphabet's Google — the first penalty ever imposed under the Digital Markets Act — is fueling a wave of private damages claims from smaller competitors across Europe, with potential payouts reaching as high…

Brin says Google banned its own AI from internal use

Google Alphabet Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin disclosed that Google's own AI model, Gemini, was at one point placed on an internal "no list" of coding tools that engineers were prohibited from using — an irony that took even Brin himself…

Caltech-Google study finds low clouds accelerate warming

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Google Alphabet Inc. have published findings showing that low-level clouds over the tropical Pacific are thinning in response to rising carbon dioxide concentrations and warming sea surface temperatures, creating a feedback loop…

EU fines Google $1B, sparking US trade threats

The European Commission on Thursday fined Alphabet's Google €890 million ($1 billion) for violating the Digital Markets Act, marking the largest penalty levied against a single company under the EU's landmark digital competition law and deepening a rift with Washington…

Trump threatens trade probe after EU fines Google $1B

President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States would open a Section 301 trade investigation into the European Union, threatening new tariffs in retaliation for Brussels fining Alphabet's Google €890 million ($1 billion) for violating the Digital Markets Act.

SemiAnalysis says OpenAI and Anthropic now dominate AI as Google slides to fifth

The artificial intelligence industry has crystallized into a two-company race between OpenAI and Anthropic, with Google Alphabet Inc. falling to fifth place among frontier labs, according to a new discussion published by semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis on July 22.

Google begins selling TPU chips, becoming a semiconductor vendor

Alphabet has begun delivering its custom Tensor Processing Units to customer data centers for the first time, marking its entry as a semiconductor vendor, even as CEO Sundar Pichai made clear that the company's own pursuit of artificial general intelligence…

Google study of 15M AI chats finds adoption broad but shallow

Google Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday released what it calls the most comprehensive look to date at how people use AI in their daily lives and work, drawing on 15 million de-identified interactions with its Gemini products. The central finding: AI…

EU fines Google €890M for Digital Markets Act violations

The European Commission on Thursday fined Alphabet's Google a total of €890 million for two violations of the Digital Markets Act, marking the largest penalty yet imposed under the bloc's landmark tech competition law.

Pichai defends Google’s AI strategy as Gemini delays rattle investors

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mounted a robust defense of Google's AI strategy on Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, pushing back against investor concerns that the company has fallen behind rivals after repeatedly delaying its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro model.

Google’s Gemini app hits 950M monthly users, closing in on ChatGPT

Alphabet reported its second-quarter 2026 earnings on Wednesday, revealing that the Google Gemini app has reached 950 million monthly active users — placing it within striking distance of OpenAI's ChatGPT, which crossed the 1 billion monthly user mark earlier this…

Reddit weighs blocking Google’s AI access to its content

Reddit shares dropped more than 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday after The Wall Street Journal News Corp reported the social media platform is considering shutting off Google's Alphabet Inc. access to its content for artificial intelligence use, as the…

Google launches three new Gemini models as 3.5 Pro stays delayed

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday launched three new AI models — Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber — emphasizing speed and cost efficiency for developers building AI agents, even as its most anticipated model, Gemini…

Google’s AI pulls from Facebook for millions of answers

Google Alphabet Inc. is increasingly turning to social media — particularly Facebook — to power its AI-generated search answers, according to new research released Monday by enterprise search firm BrightEdge. The study found that Facebook appeared as a cited source…

Google developing chip to hardwire Gemini AI into silicon

Google is working on a new server chip that would embed elements of its Gemini artificial intelligence model directly into the hardware, a move aimed at dramatically improving the efficiency of serving AI to hundreds of millions of users, The…

Google developing chip that bakes Gemini AI into silicon

Alphabet is working on a new custom server chip that bakes its Gemini AI model's architecture directly into hardware, a move that could deliver substantial power efficiency gains as the company grapples with surging demand for AI computing, according to…

Google says EU ‘on the wrong track’ with Android AI rules

The European Commission issued two binding decisions on July 16 requiring Google Alphabet Inc. to give competing AI assistants the same access to Android that its own Gemini service enjoys, while also mandating that the company share anonymized search data…

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed as model falls short

Alphabet's Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, as the technology has fallen short of the company's internal expectations, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday.

Google removes Russia’s Max and VK apps from Play Store

Google Alphabet Inc. has removed the Russian messaging app Max and other applications operated by VK from its Play Store, the company announced on July 16, marking the end of the app's availability on both major Western app marketplaces.

EU prepares record DMA fines against Google for next week

The European Commission is preparing to impose fines worth hundreds of millions of euros on Alphabet's Google in a series of decisions expected next week, marking what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc's Digital Markets Act,…

EU orders Google to share search data, open Android to AI rivals

The European Commission on Wednesday adopted binding measures requiring Alphabet's Google to share anonymized search data with rival AI companies and competing search engines, and to open its Android operating system to third-party AI services, in a landmark enforcement action…

Google asks EU’s top court to uphold scrapping of $1.7B fine

Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday urged Europe's top court to dismiss EU antitrust regulators' appeal against a lower court ruling that scrapped a €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) fine, in a case that tests the European Commission's ability to enforce competition…

Google to host rival app stores in Play Store by July 22

Google Alphabet Inc. and Epic Games have jointly withdrawn their attempt to modify a court injunction that mandates sweeping changes to the Android app ecosystem, the companies told a federal court on Tuesday. The move means rival app stores will…

Google pushes TPUs into neoclouds, challenging Nvidia’s GPU grip

Alphabet is intensifying efforts to sell its custom-designed Tensor Processing Units to emerging cloud service providers known as neoclouds, escalating a battle with NVIDIA for control of the AI computing infrastructure market, according to a report by The Information published…