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Google to sell its AI chips to outside cloud providers

Alphabet's Google is moving to sell its custom Tensor Processing Units to independent cloud providers for the first time, targeting the fast-growing neocloud market that has long been dominated by Nvidia GPUs, according to a report from The Information published…

Google search traffic grew 4% in June despite AI rivals’ explosive gains

Google's grip on web search remains firm even as artificial intelligence competitors post explosive growth figures. Global daily web visits to Google Alphabet Inc. rose 4% year over year to 2.8 billion in June, according to data compiled by BofA…

Google’s Pixel 11 set to beat Apple to first 2nm chip

Google Alphabet Inc. is poised to claim a historic first in mobile computing. The company's upcoming Tensor G6 processor, set to power the Pixel 11 series launching in August 2026, will reportedly be the first mass-produced smartphone chip built on…

Google releases Magic Pointer app ahead of Googlebook launch

Google Alphabet Inc. has quietly released a "Magic Pointer" app to the Google Play Store, offering the first tangible software preview of its upcoming Googlebook laptops ahead of their fall launch. The app, spotted on the Play Store on Thursday,…

Google unveils AI model trained on a trillion minutes of wearable health data

Google Alphabet Inc. Research on Wednesday introduced SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health that was pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million people, marking what the company describes as a step toward general-purpose…

OpenAI, Google sell AI to blacklisted Chinese firms

OpenAI and Google Alphabet Inc. have confirmed they are supplying advanced artificial intelligence models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, despite the parent companies' placement on the Pentagon's list of Chinese military companies, according to a Financial Times…

Google makes AlphaEvolve AI optimization agent widely available

Google Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday made AlphaEvolve, its Gemini-powered code-optimization agent, generally available to all Google Cloud customers through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The tool, developed in partnership with Google DeepMind, is designed to help organizations tackle complex computational…

Protesters storm stage at UN AI summit over Amazon’s Israel contract

Pro-Palestine activists stormed the stage during a presentation by Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels at the United Nations "AI for Good" Global Summit in Geneva on Wednesday, denouncing the company's cloud computing contract with…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 tops Google’s revamped Android Bench

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a major update to Android Bench, its leaderboard for evaluating how well AI models handle real-world Android development tasks. The refresh adds eight new models to the rankings — headlined by Anthropic's Claude…

Google now uses your search uploads to train AI

Google Alphabet Inc. has begun using images, audio recordings, and video uploaded through its Search services to train AI models, with all users opted in by default — a change that drew widespread attention after TechCrunch flagged it on July…

Google and RWE back Proxima Fusion’s record $468M round

German nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion announced on Tuesday a €411 million ($468 million) financing round that values the company at €2.4 billion, making it the largest-ever private investment in European fusion and establishing Proxima as the continent's best-funded fusion…

Google targets July 17 for Gemini 3.5 Pro after rebuild

Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind is reportedly targeting July 17 for the general availability launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro, after scrapping the model's original base architecture and executing an entirely new pre-training pipeline. The release was initially promised for June 2026…

Google, FBI disrupt proxy network that hijacked 2M devices

Google Alphabet Inc. said on Thursday it had taken coordinated action with the FBI and Lumen Technologies to degrade NetNut, a residential proxy network that had hijacked at least 2 million consumer devices worldwide, including smart TVs and Android streaming…

Google hit with $1.5B Swedish ruling, South Korea charges

Alphabet was ordered by a Swedish court on Wednesday to pay 14.3 billion Swedish kronor — approximately $1.5 billion — in antitrust damages to Klarna's PriceRunner subsidiary, while South Korea's competition regulator separately accused Google of abusing its dominance in…

EU top court upholds record €4.1B antitrust fine against Google

The European Union's highest court on Thursday dismissed Google's Alphabet Inc. final appeal against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) antitrust fine, ending an eight-year legal battle over the tech giant's use of its Android operating system to stifle competition and…

Google taps Intel packaging for next TPU, moving away from TSMC

Google Alphabet Inc. is set to abandon TSMC's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited dominant CoWoS packaging for its next-generation tensor processing unit, turning instead to Intel's EMIB-T technology in a move that could reshape the AI chip supply chain.

Amazon’s carbon emissions rose 16% in 2025 amid data center boom

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. emitted roughly 81 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2025, a 16% jump from the prior year driven by data center construction and delivery operations, the company disclosed in its annual sustainability report published Wednesday.…

Google taps MediaTek over Broadcom for TPUv9 AI chip

Google Alphabet Inc. has chosen MediaTek to develop its ninth-generation Tensor Processing Unit, codenamed "Triggerfish," according to a report from GF Securities published on June 30. The decision represents an expanding role for MediaTek in Google's custom AI chip program…

Vint Cerf, ‘father of the internet,’ to retire from Google next week

Vinton Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and widely recognized as one of the fathers of the internet, is stepping down from his role as vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google Alphabet Inc. next week, capping more than 20 years…

Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.97B to Klarna’s PriceRunner

Stockholm's Patent and Market Court ruled on Wednesday that Alphabet's Google must pay approximately 14.3 billion Swedish crowns in antitrust damages to Klarna's price comparison subsidiary PriceRunner, in what stands as the largest private antitrust damages award in Swedish history.

Google launches Gemini Spark on macOS with new app integrations

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday rolled out Gemini Spark to its macOS desktop app, bringing the company's always-on AI agent to local file systems for the first time. The update, available in beta to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the…

Google launches two AI models for fast image and video generation

Google Alphabet Inc. released two new AI media models on Tuesday, expanding its generative AI lineup with tools aimed at making image and video creation faster and cheaper for developers and consumers alike.

Google’s emissions, power use hit record highs amid AI buildout

Google's electricity consumption, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions all climbed to record levels in 2025 as the company raced to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to the tech giant's 11th annual environmental report released Sunday.

Meta contractors posed as teens to test rival chatbots, Wired reports

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as children and probe competitor chatbots — including Google's Gemini Alphabet Inc. and OpenAI's ChatGPT — with prompts involving suicide, sex, and drugs, according to a report…

Google security chiefs warn EU data rules risk exposing users to hackers

Google's Alphabet Inc. top security and privacy executives have warned that proposed European Union measures requiring the company to share detailed search data and open up parts of its Android operating system could expose billions of users to hacking and…

Google caps Meta’s Gemini AI use amid compute crunch

Alphabet has imposed limits on Meta's use of its Gemini artificial intelligence models after Meta sought more computing capacity than Google Cloud could provide, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Google ties publisher payments to AI training rights

Google Alphabet Inc. is pushing news publishers to grant broad rights over their content — including the use of articles for training AI models — as a condition of joining its "AI-powered article overviews" pilot program, according to reporting by…

Google’s Android alert system warned Venezuela before twin earthquakes hit

Millions of Android smartphone users in Venezuela received early warning notifications seconds before two devastating earthquakes struck the country's northern coastline on Wednesday evening, providing critical moments to seek safety before buildings began to collapse.

Google makes AI coding strike team permanent to chase Anthropic

Google Alphabet Inc. is reorganizing its months-old AI coding strike team, broadening its focus beyond coding tools to include training the company's underlying models for both programming and enterprise tasks, according to a report published Wednesday by The Information.

Google Play Store opens external billing June 30

Google Alphabet Inc. is set to implement sweeping changes to its Play Store billing model on June 30, 2026, replacing its long-standing flat 30% commission with a tiered fee structure developed as part of its antitrust settlement with Epic Games.…