Every Google story

207 stories tracking Google, ranked newest first, from TechSnif's permanent archive.

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Laila Kearney / Reuters ·

Google contracts for 3,590 MW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply

Google (GOOGL.O) has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy (CEG.O) in the US' largest power grid …

Bloomberg ·

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that the race to develop artificial intelligence poses risks that the industry itself …

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg ·

Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society

The accord, which carries no legal weight, commits Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, SpacexAI and Google to "robust internal processes" …

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico ·

Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages

Google and Apple lobbyists are engaged in a massive effort to press state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety laws …

Financial Times ·

Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied "excessive" charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015

British claim over Google Play Store is latest effort to challenge market power of Big Tech groups

Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware ·

Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027

Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports

Abner Li / 9to5Google ·

Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash

Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.

Mike Scarcella / Reuters ·

A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic

Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg …

Brooks Barnes / New York Times ·

Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools

Jonathan Zepp, left, Google's head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners …

Financial Times ·

Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company

US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules.

Wall Street Journal ·

Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash

The Information ·

Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely

Google has been paying roughly 100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI-powered answers to search and other products …

Reuters ·

IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows how much it depends on a small group of customers and tech giants, highlighting key risks …

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg ·

Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security

Google is contesting an attempt by the European Union to make it open up its Android operating system to artificial-intelligence rivals …

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware ·

Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with "many" models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade

Google is telling IT admins at schools and businesses about its new platform. … Google says it will be phasing out ChromeOS updates in mid-2034.

Abner Li / 9to5Google ·

Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark

In 2024, Google introduced Gems as "custom versions of Gemini." The Gemini app will soon replace Gems with "skills."

Nilay Patel / The Verge ·

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially reaching 1000x human traffic, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more

Cloudflare's mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age

Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·

Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts

Security researchers warn of surge in 'LLM-jacking' attacks targeting companies' costly AI resources

Reuters ·

Google says ShinyHunters has renewed "mass exploitation" of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft; ShinyHunters has said it accessed FBI data using a flaw in PeopleSoft

Google's cybersecurity unit said on Friday that hacking group ShinyHunters has renewed "mass exploitation" …

Emma Roth / The Verge ·

Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers

Google's Live Avatar can lip-sync and show different facial expressions. … Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US

With AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users' behalf, Google is now letting Gemini call businesses with a new feature called "Call for Me."

New York Times ·

Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year

Technicians in a clean room at the Planet Labs office inspect the solar panels and wires of a Google-commissioned satellite …