Reach CEO Piers North Uses Google AI Deal as Blueprint, Sends OpenAI Cease-and-Desist
Reach PLC has signed a two-year paid content licensing deal with Google for its news AI pilot and sent OpenAI a cease-an...
Google's Energy Shift: Michael Terrell Departs, AI Boom Fuels Infrastructure Hurdles
Google's Head of Advanced Energy, Michael Terrell, leaves the company after 19 years, while the AI boom fuels infrastruc...
Google's AI Platform Dominance: 48% of Organizations Choose Google as Primary AI Platform
A VentureBeat survey reveals that 48% of organizations running AI in production choose Google's Gemini and Google Cloud ...
Google Signals Gemini 4 AI Model May Launch Before End of Year
Google DeepMind's new chief says the next flagship model is in early post-training and may be released significantly ear...
YouTube’s Custom Feeds Let Viewers Rewrite Their Homepage Algorithm With a Prompt
YouTube is rolling out a Custom Feeds button that turns natural-language prompts into personalized video homepages — and...
Broadcom Could Rally 33% as Macquarie Says Google Fears Are Priced In
Macquarie upgraded Broadcom to outperform and lifted its price target to $490, arguing concerns about losing Google's cu...
Google Opens Gemini AI to K-12 Students in Classroom, Expanding School AI Race
Google now lets school administrators enable Gemini for students of all ages inside Classroom, adding AI study tools whi...
Maryland Digital Ad Tax Struck Down; Google, Peacock, Apple Win Refunds
Maryland's first-in-nation digital advertising tax has been invalidated, with refunds ordered to Google, Peacock and App...
California AG Fights Court Bid to Halt Limits on Teen Social Feeds
Rob Bonta tells a federal judge that Meta, Google and TikTok have offered no new First Amendment grounds to block SB976,...
Google Lets Users Hide Visible AI Watermarks, Keeps Invisible Provenance
Optional visible watermarks are coming to Gemini and Flow, but SynthID and C2PA metadata will remain for verification.
Google Pixel 11 Campaign Bets That the Best Phone Helps You Look Away
Google’s Pixel 11 launch campaign turns digital fatigue into a product story, pairing HiLight and Gemini-powered Magic C...
Google Edges Past Naver in Korean Mobile Users as AI Search Shifts the Web
For the first time, Google's mobile app outranked Naver by monthly active users in South Korea, while ChatGPT's rise poi...
Google Unveils Pixel 11 Smartphones With Expanded AI and Pixel Tag Tracker
Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 series with thinner cameras, stronger zoom, longer battery life and deeper AI integrati...
Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users
YouTube is testing a new AI-generated search page that combines videos, Shorts, and text summaries. The Verge found it u...
Former Google, AWS and Tinder Interns Share How They Turned Internships Into Full-Time Offers
Their paths differed, but the same habits recurred: lead with curiosity, build relationships, own the project, and docum...
Google's Pixel 11 Line Takes Aim at Samsung's Fold Lead and Apple's AirTag Price
Google's August 12 hardware push adds a Pro-branded foldable, a 34.99 euro Pixel Tag and a health-focused Pixel Watch 5,...
Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...
Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap Face a Growing Wave of US Child-Safety Lawsuits
State AGs, school districts and families are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap over youth mental-health harm; early ve...
Publishers Plot a Post-Google Playbook as Earnings Reveal Diverging Bets
Earnings calls from the NYT, News Corp, People Inc, USA Today Co., Ziff Davis and BuzzFeed show publishers building vide...
Google Puts Guided Strength Training on the Pixel Watch 5 Wrist
The Pixel Watch 5 will deliver sets, reps, weights and rest timers directly on the wrist, removing the phone from custom...
Google's Pixel 11 Lineup Arrives With Price Hikes, Pixel Watch 5 and a $29 Tracker
Google's new Pixel 11 phones start at $899 and go on sale August 20, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag. Here's w...
Pixel 11 Base Model Could Ship With Just 8GB of RAM Despite Price Hike
Leaked specs point to a cut from 12GB to 8GB of RAM on the entry-level Pixel 11, even as the starting price rises — thou...
Google Launches AI-Powered Dashboards and Agentic Tools for Advertisers
Google is rolling out AI dashboards, benchmarking, and agentic capabilities across Ads and Analytics, letting marketers ...
French Commune Besieged by Waze Traffic: Mayor Installs Light in Desperate Bid to Slow Commuters
Lieusaint has become a daily shortcut for thousands of Waze users, causing gridlock and pollution. The mayor's traffic-l...
Google Overhauls Hacker Group Naming to Cut Through Industry Noise
Google’s threat intelligence unit has retired APT numbers for a country-linked naming system, aiming to streamline incid...
Texas Orders Audits of Data Centre Construction, Clouding Google and Microsoft Expansion
Governor Greg Abbott has directed the state’s utility regulator and grid operator to audit new data centre projects, a m...
Why a Google Pixel Diehard Is Skipping the Pixel 11 — and What It Means for Your Wallet
A two-year-old Pixel 9 Pro still outshines the new $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro in all the ways that matter for everyday users. H...
Google Names Gemini 4 Lead as Both Co-Heads Quit to Launch Discovery Loop
In a seismic reshuffle, Google tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu to build Gemini 4 while Demis Hassabis stepped back and four AI ...
Google Eyes $1.5bn Mechanize Deal to Close AI Coding Gap
Alphabet is negotiating a licence-and-hire arrangement with San Francisco-based Mechanize, a startup that builds evaluat...
Publishers Start Blocking Google's AI Crawlers, Facing a Brutal Trade-Off
Cloudflare will soon default to blocking Google’s crawlers for publishers like the Financial Times and Condé Nast, as a ...