Google AI
Google's “Flexible” Gemini Notebook Limits Delete the Published Numbers
Countable daily quotas are replaced by an undisclosed compute budget that resets every five hours, and the tier multipliers survive without a base to multiply.
1d ago
Google AI
Google's New “4K” Video Model Generates at 720p and Upscales the Rest
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash shipped on 27 August with scene extension, first-and-last-frame control and a cheap draft mode. The 40-second figure is a cumulative ceiling reached ten seconds at a time, appending to the end only.
2d ago
Google AI
Google's New Transcriber Posts Two Word Error Rates, Roughly 2X Apart
2.6% comes from a third-party evaluator on primary use cases. 5.04% comes from Google's own run on a multilingual benchmark. Both are in the same announcement.
3d ago
Google AI
Google Says No Training-Works List Exists, and None Can Be Made
The ruling is narrower than it looks and more consequential than it sounds. It is about the standard of review, and it lands while class certification is pending.
5d ago
Legal AI
Ex-Google Engineer Lost 7 Espionage Counts, But 7 Theft Stand
This was not an appeal and not an acquittal on the taking. The trial judge found the government never proved the China element.
Aug 21, 2026
Google AI
Google Announces AI Assistant for Chat, Retiring The Old One
Ask Gemini in Chat starts rolling out on 26 August. The side panel goes away for English-language accounts, and Gems go with it.
Aug 20, 2026
Google AI
Google's Free Gemini Year for Students Needs a Card, And Varies Abroad
US students get AI Pro at $19.99 a month. The 140-plus other markets get AI Plus — a twelfth of the storage — and Canada gets neither.
Aug 20, 2026
Google AI
Relay Is Shutting Down and Its Founder Is Google's New Chrome VP. Nothing Was Acquired.
The talent moves to Google, the product dies, and the cap table receives nothing — because there is no acquisition for it to receive anything from.
Aug 18, 2026
Google AI
Google Shuts Down Three Imagen 4 Endpoints, Replacing Them
Migrating is not a model-string swap: the method disappears, the response shape changes, and batch generation goes away.
Aug 17, 2026
Google AI
Google Open-Sourced a Compiler That Runs AI Models on Data It Cannot Read
HEIR converts pre-trained models to run inference directly on homomorphically encrypted inputs. Four reference applications ship with it, and none of them are a hosted product.
Aug 16, 2026
Google AI
Google Will Let You Switch Off Its Visible AI Watermark
The corner stamp on Gemini images, video and songs becomes a setting. SynthID and C2PA credentials stay embedded whatever you choose.
Aug 16, 2026
Google AI
Google Weighs $1.5B for a 35-Person Startup, Via Licence-Hire
Mechanize builds the environments and graders that frontier coding agents are trained against. Google wants the technology non-exclusively and the people directly — the deal shape that avoids buying the company.
Aug 6, 2026
Google AI
Google's $15B Data Centre Is 860 Metres From a Leopard Sanctuary
Construction at Visakhapatnam is well under way, with the hillside terraced. So are the court cases: a High Court hearing is set for later this month over water and the neighbouring reserve.
Aug 6, 2026
Google AI
Google Put Image Generation Into Google Earth and Pulled It a Day Later
Users produced convincing fake satellite imagery within hours — craters beside a hospital in Gaza, columns of people at the Mexican border. Google calls it a rollback while it builds guardrails.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Data Centers
Commonwealth Fusion Raised $1 Billion Without Naming a Single Investor
The announcement also contains no megawatt figure. Google's offtake is described as 'more than half' of a plant whose output is never stated.
Jul 31, 2026
Google AI
A Judge Just Let the First AI Defamation Case Reach Discovery
A Delaware court refused to dismiss claims that Google's chatbots fabricated criminal accusations about a conservative activist — the furthest any hallucination lawsuit has advanced in a US court.
Jul 25, 2026
Google AI
Google Studied 15 Million AI Conversations and Found the Automation Isn't There
AI now touches 68% of occupations covering 90% of US employment. The median job uses it on about a fifth of its tasks, and fewer than one interaction in ten finishes a task outright.
Jul 24, 2026
Google AI
Google Rolls Out Selfie-Video Account Recovery Built to Beat Deepfakes
Users can pre-record an encrypted reference video and later prove they're real with guided head movements — liveness checks designed for an era when a static face is trivially fakeable.
Jul 23, 2026
Google AI
Publishers Weigh Cutting Google Off From Their Content as AI Answers Eat the Clicks
USA Today's owner says it is prepared to delist from Google within a year, People Inc. calls a full block "100% on the table," and Reddit has discussed ending Google's $60-million-a-year AI access.
Jul 22, 2026
Google AI
Google Ships Three Gemini Models at Once — and Says Gemini 4 Pre-Training Has Started
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing to $7.50 per million tokens and advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, while a gated Flash Cyber variant goes only to governments and trusted partners.
Jul 22, 2026
Google AI
Google Is Designing a Chip With Gemini's Architecture Baked Into the Silicon, Report Says
A server chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' would freeze parts of Google's model design directly into hardware for far more efficient inference, targeted for 2028, according to The Information.
Jul 20, 2026
AI Safety
San Francisco Orders Apple and Google to Purge AI 'Nudify' Apps From Their Stores
City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters over 13 apps that generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, giving the two companies 28 days to act or face penalties.
Jul 18, 2026
Google AI
Google Cloud Open-Sources an 'Always-On' Memory Agent That Ditches RAG and Embeddings
The reference design runs continuously on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, letting a language model read, reason and write structured memory to a plain SQLite file instead of a vector database.
Jul 18, 2026
Google AI
Google's AI Mode Starts Doing Things: Search Now Connects to Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music
US users can link the first three partner apps to Search's AI Mode and have it fill grocery carts, generate design templates and build playlists — Google's clearest step from answering to acting.
Jul 17, 2026
Google AI
NotebookLM Becomes Gemini Notebook — and Every Notebook Gets Its Own Cloud Computer
Google's research tool, now at 30 million users, gains a sandboxed execution environment that writes and runs Python against your sources — starting with Ultra subscribers.
Jul 17, 2026
Google AI
Brussels Orders Google to Open Android to Rival AI Assistants and Share Search Data
Two binding Digital Markets Act decisions give competing assistants equal access to core Android functions from mid-2027 and force anonymized search-data sharing with rivals — including AI chatbots — from January.
Jul 17, 2026
Google AI
Google's SynthID Watermark Helps Debunk a Viral McConnell Deepfake
A fake image of the ailing senator on life support spread across X and Reddit — until fact-checkers found Google's invisible AI watermark baked into it, in a rare public win for deepfake detection.
Jul 9, 2026
Google AI
Google Reportedly Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17, Scrapping Its Base Model
According to reports, DeepMind threw out the Gemini 2.5 Pro-based foundation days before launch and started a fresh pre-training run — leaving Google the only major lab without a public flagship as GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 ship.
Jul 9, 2026
