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Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029, according to a company filing. This deal will provide SpaceX with significant revenue from Google.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.

More than 20 European news publishers are seeking damages of over €640m from Google for alleged adtech monopoly abuses, following a €2.95bn fine imposed by the European Commission last year.

Google is allowing big creators and publishers in the US to claim dedicated Search profiles, which let them highlight their online activities. This feature is designed to aggregate cross-platform content.

Google employees are sharing memes about the company's AI being overhyped and bad at generating code, contradicting CEO Sundar Pichai's claim that 75% of new code is AI-generated.

Google fired Timnit Gebru in 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper that warned about the dangers of large language models. Every warning in the paper has now come true, despite the industry's efforts to downplay them.

Google is selling $10 billion of equity to Berkshire Hathaway, a move that signals high demand for AI and the importance of cash in acquiring compute resources.

Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale for Google's AI business is a strong signal of investor appetite for AI-related offerings. The sale was oversubscribed, raising $45 billion instead of the initial $40 billion.

Google Labs has launched Dreambeans, an AI-fueled app that animates users' lives using data from Google services, generating curated AI-illustrated stories for lifestyle suggestions.

The U.K. has imposed legal guardrails on Google's AI search, requiring the tech giant to offer publishers a way to opt out of being aggregated into AI search. Publishers can use a new toggle in Google's Search Console to opt out.

The UK has ruled that Google must allow publishers to opt out of using their content to fine-tune AI search features. Website owners can also prevent their content from being used to 'fine-tune' Google's AI models.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given publishers the option to opt out of Google's AI search results, citing a need for fair treatment and transparency.

Google is testing a new toggle in its Search Console, allowing UK domain owners to opt out of AI search results without impacting regular search placement.

Microsoft is playing catchup with its competitors in the AI space, building out its own frontier AI models and custom accelerator chips to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The Phone by Google app will flag suspicious calls so you can hang up, helping users avoid scam calls.

Google is launching fake call detection on Android 12+ devices to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams, which spoof trusted phone numbers and use AI to sound like authority figures.

GrapheneOS has released version 2 of its Speech Services, a proprietary alternative to Google's speech recognition technology. The update is available for download on the GrapheneOS website.

Google plans to open its 11th physical store in Tokyo's Omotesando district this summer, marking its first store outside the US. The store will be a flagship offering and will be located in the Omokado Tokyu Plaza.

ChatGPT for Google Sheets is vulnerable to data exfiltration and phishing attacks that affect workbooks across a victim's account after an indirect prompt injection in a single sheet. This attack does not require human approval, even when set to require approval.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin reportedly told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the ideal amount of time to be productive, according to a Fortune article. This statement was made to Google's AI staff.

Trade Desk's market value declined by approximately 70% from its December 2024 peak, according to reports. This decline is attributed to competition from Google and Amazon, as well as strained relationships with top ad agencies.

A Google employee has been charged with insider trading after allegedly spending $1 million on a Polymarket bet related to a search term.

Google's AI is flawed in its ability to spell words, including its own name, as demonstrated by incorrect counts of letters in words like 'poop' and 'journalism'. This issue is not new, as a similar problem occurred when Google first introduced AI Overviews to Search.

Apple and Google are increasingly intervening in push notifications, summarizing, reordering, and rewriting them on users' devices. This shift has significant implications for marketers and users alike.

According to Hacker News and PC Gamer, DuckDuckGo saw a 28% increase in visits after Google's statement about people loving AI mode. This growth is attributed to users seeking AI-free search options.

DuckDuckGo installs have increased by 30% following Google's announcement to overhaul its Search with AI, with users expressing concerns over loss of control and accuracy.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed AI, search, and the web in a recent interview with The Verge, outlining plans to reshape the information ecosystem and integrate AI agents into various products.

Xreal, Google's smart glasses partner, claims to have overcome the challenges of the industry, which has seen significant investment with little profit.