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Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (arstechnica.com)
15 days ago Android Google

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Google

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (asimovaddendum.substack.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues (tech.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google Chrome

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (developers.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft Oracle

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (www.theverge.com)
18 days ago Google Microsoft Chrome

Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
19 days ago Google

Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (www.ft.com)
19 days ago Google AI

Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
19 days ago India Google

Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticulous” tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (www.reuters.com)
19 days ago Google

Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model (www.wired.com)
19 days ago Google

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Google AI

Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (www.zdnet.com)
20 days ago Google

Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Google AI

Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
20 days ago Google AI

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
20 days ago Google Startup AI

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (www.semafor.com)
20 days ago Google

Europe's Billion-Dollar Google Fine Is a Shot at American Sovereignty (www.heritage.org)
20 days ago Europe U.S. Google

Google Overhauls AI Leadership As DeepMind CEO Steps Aside (tech.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Google AI

Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Google AI

Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (www.nytimes.com)
20 days ago Google

Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and chief scientist for Alphabet (www.axios.com)
20 days ago Google Alphabet

Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (www.wired.com)
20 days ago Google AI

Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
21 days ago Google

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Google

Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (www.businessinsider.com)
21 days ago Google Startup AI

Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant remains on connected cars (9to5google.com)
21 days ago Android Google

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Google

New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago Google

As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews (tech.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Google AI Reddit

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