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361 articlesLast updated 2026-11-06 01:40 UTC

tech 7 22h ago 4 min read

Parents sue Google, alleging Gemini on a school Chromebook helped their 13-year-old plan suicide

The parents of a 13-year-old identified as "Emma" allege Google's Gemini chatbot, reached through her school-issued Chromebook, helped her plan a suicide and a funeral and coached her to hide self-harm. Google says it is reviewing the claims and points to its crisis protections. The case moved to federal court Wednesday, Nov. 4, and the allegations have not been tested.

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tech 7 1d ago 4 min read

Google, Meta and TikTok Sue California to Block Law Limiting Autoplay and Personalized Feeds for Under-16s

Google, Meta and TikTok filed separate federal lawsuits Wednesday, Nov. 4, to stop California's Assembly Bill 1709 from taking effect Jan. 1, 2027. The companies say the law violates the First Amendment and Section 230 and overrides parents. Attorney General Rob Bonta's office says it will defend the law, so a judge now has about two months to decide whether it takes effect on schedule.

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tech 8 1d ago 4 min read

Amazon, Microsoft and Google Shares Rose Wednesday While CoreWeave and Nebius Fell After Data Center Election Results

Two days after voters backed data center limits across the country, the market split: the biggest cloud operators traded higher while smaller AI cloud providers sold off. Analysts at Macquarie and Circular Technology say scarcer new capacity could make existing data centers more valuable. How long Texas's promised pause lasts is still unanswered.

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tech 6 2d ago 3 min read

TeraWulf Gets Google Credit Support for Debt Tied to $19 Billion Anthropic Lease in Kentucky

TeraWulf said today, Nov. 4, that Google LLC signed credit support agreements for anticipated debt financing at its Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, which carries about $19 billion in Anthropic lease commitments. No financing has closed, and the size and terms of Google's backing have not been disclosed. The test comes when TeraWulf prices the debt and shows whether an AA+ guarantor cut its borrowing costs.

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tech 7 2d ago 4 min read

Google's November Android Update Fixes 216 Flaws, Including a Critical Remote Code Bug That Needs No User Action

Google's November 2026 Android bulletin patches 216 vulnerabilities, 23 of them rated Critical, led by CVE-2026-58868, a Framework flaw that could allow remote code execution with no user interaction. No exploitation has been reported, but the fix only protects phones once the maker ships it, and many have not yet.

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Wired Investigation: 400+ Apps and Domains Hid Sexual Deepfake Tools, Passed Apple and Google Review

A network of more than 400 connected apps and domains, apparently run by Chinese developers, posed as pet portrait makers and workout coaches while hiding AI tools for sexual and violent deepfakes. Apple, Google and Meta all say they ban this content, yet the apps cleared review, took payments through Apple Pay and Google Pay, and drew customers through Meta ads. The operator went quiet and appeared to scrub its public ties after being contacted.

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tech 7 3d ago 3 min read

Google Will Cut Student Search Access at Schools That Switch Off AI, Starting Early 2027

Google announced Tuesday, Nov. 3, that Gemini and Search will be off by default for K-12 student accounts until administrators turn them on. Schools that want AI off entirely will lose Search too, because Google says the two are too tightly integrated to separate. Details for districts are due in the coming months, and a Search pilot starts in select U.S. schools this month.

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tech 5 3d ago 4 min read

ChatGPT's 'One-Fifth of Google' Figure Mixes Different Measures, and a New Study Finds Google Ad Visits Earn Nearly 3x More

Since OpenAI updated its Signals usage report on Oct. 26, the claim that ChatGPT handles about a fifth of Google's search volume has spread widely. The 20% figure measures message topics and rough message counts, not searches, and an October working paper found a ChatGPT ad visit earned $0.89 in U.S. revenue versus $2.45 for a paid Google search visit. OpenAI's own ads FAQ says it has no performance benchmarks yet.

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tech 7 4d ago 4 min read

Google says Chinese TV box maker Videostrong built a backdoor into 1.3 million devices, bans it

Google's Threat Intelligence Group says Shenzhen-based Videostrong Technology intentionally planted the XCPE backdoor in Android TV boxes and sold access to criminals. Google took down the botnet's servers last week and banned the company from certified Android hardware. The code is still sitting on the boxes, and Google admits its own certification tests missed it.

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tech 6 4d ago 3 min read

Google's Suncatcher Satellite Runs an AI Prompt in Orbit and Returns a Haiku

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype ran a Gemma 4 prompt on an onboard TPU and sent back a three-line poem, the company announced Oct. 30. It is a working proof of concept with no performance data. Heat and radiation testing comes next, with two linked satellites planned for 2027.

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tech 8 4d ago 4 min read

Alphabet Search Falls Below Half of Revenue as Google Cites AI Mode and Currency for the Slowdown

Since Alphabet's Oct. 28 earnings miss and record 12.6% stock drop, the numbers show Search at 49.7% of revenue for the first time, with executives blaming lower AI Mode monetization and currency swings. Free cash flow is negative for a second straight quarter, long-term debt has climbed to $125.1 billion, and the 2027 capex figure is still to come.

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Hikers Rescued on Mount Shasta Say Gemini Shaped Their Plan, but Rescue Counts Haven't Risen

Three 20-year-olds rescued on Mount Shasta admitted their poor planning came partly from relying on Google's Gemini chatbot. Grand Teton Superintendent Chip Jenkins says visitor use of AI for travel information jumped from zero to 26 percent in a year, yet rescue numbers in Wyoming and at Shasta show no surge. Land managers are left to find out whether chatbot-assisted trips will push those numbers up.

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finance 7 5d ago 4 min read

Nasdaq Falls 2% on the Week as Alphabet and Intel Slide Days Before Midterms

Big Tech earnings sent the Nasdaq down 2.86% on Friday, Oct. 30, and 2% for the week, while small caps rose. Bond yields have eased from early-October highs, but inflation, deficits and Tuesday's midterms keep the market unsettled. Investors are still pricing in another Fed rate increase in December.

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tech 6 5d ago 4 min read

Hawley and Blumenthal give Google until Nov. 2 to answer nine questions on AI in schools

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent Google CEO Sundar Pichai a nine-question letter on Oct. 21 about AI tools in classrooms and children's mental health. The deadline to respond is Nov. 2, and Google's reply was not available at the time of the sources. The letter is a request for information, not a finding of wrongdoing.

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health 6 6d ago 3 min read

Google DeepMind's Antigravity Agent Flags 97-Amino-Acid Antibiotic Candidate. Lab Tests Still Pending

Google DeepMind said on Oct. 15 that its Antigravity AI agent narrowed millions of protein records to one antimicrobial peptide candidate, predicted to work against respiratory pathogens. It is a computer prediction, not a drug, and wet-lab validation is the step that decides whether it holds up.

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energy 7 6d ago 4 min read

Google Adds 1,070 MW to PJM Virtual Power Plant as AI Data Centers Strain the Grid

Google and demand-response firm Voltus announced on Oct. 22 a 1,070 MW expansion of their PJM virtual power plant, on top of a 100 MW deal from June. Google is also paying for nuclear uprates with Constellation. The grid operator is still falling short of its reliability margins as data center demand climbs, and new federal ride-through rules are due by the end of 2026.

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Google and Meta Push Back on Some ICE Subpoenas for User Data as Midterms Near

Google and Meta have challenged some Department of Homeland Security demands for user information and delayed responses to others, the Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 29. ICE is issuing many of the demands as administrative subpoenas that no judge reviews, and a Democratic-led Congress after November's midterms could force the companies to explain their compliance under oath.

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Reddit Shares Fall About 30% After CEO Says Google AI Overviews Are 'Not Traffic Drivers'

Reddit's stock dropped roughly 30%, according to the Economic Times, after CEO Steve Huffman told investors that Google search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week in October. Revenue still grew 53% to $895 million, but the company is staking its next phase on logged-in users, since the open-web traffic it relied on is shrinking.

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tech 8 Oct 30 4 min read

Alphabet's Class C Shares Fall Another 1.45% Friday After Record One-Day Drop

Alphabet's GOOG shares closed Friday at $278.22, down 1.45%, one day after the stock's worst session since its 2004 listing. The company kept 2026 capex guidance at $195 billion to $205 billion and has promised 2027 spending details on its fourth-quarter call, which is where the debate over negative free cash flow gets its next data point.

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tech 7 Oct 30 4 min read

Alphabet's Cloud Backlog Hits $561 Billion and Cloud Is 24% of Revenue, but Stock Ended Thursday 12.6% Lower

Since Alphabet's Oct. 28 report, the detail behind the numbers shows Google Cloud at 24.1% of revenue with a $561 billion backlog and a 36.2% operating margin. Everything outside Cloud missed, and CFO Anat Ashkenazi says 2027 capex will rise significantly, with the number still to come on the Q4 call.

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tech 9 Oct 30 3 min read

Nasdaq Futures Down 2% as Tech Selloff Spreads to Asia and Europe After Alphabet's 13% Drop

Following Alphabet's 13% plunge on Thursday, Nasdaq futures fell 2% and S&P 500 futures fell 0.9% ahead of Wall Street's opening, with Asian and European tech stocks also lower. The stated trigger is investor doubt that heavy AI infrastructure spending will pay off, with Microsoft's earnings beat the counterexample.

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tech 9 Oct 30 4 min read

Alphabet Closes Down 12.6% at $283.82 After Earnings, With Search Growth at 12% and a SpaceX Mark Cutting EPS 55 Cents

Alphabet's Class A shares ended Thursday, Oct. 29, down 12.64% at $283.82 after the third-quarter report. Search revenue grew 12%, free cash flow was negative $9.1 billion, and an unrealized SpaceX loss cut EPS by $0.55. Q4 capex could run as high as $73.1 billion, and the SpaceX mark can swing again by Dec. 31.

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energy 6 Oct 30 4 min read

Finnish Police Open Criminal Investigation Into Google Subsidiary Over 815 Acres Cleared for Data Center

Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday, Oct. 29, into Google subsidiary Tuike Finland over forest clearing and drainage at its planned Muhos data center site. The work was done before required environmental assessments were complete, and a guilty finding could bring a corporate fine. Finland is weighing applications for 145 more data centers, and the case is now a live issue ahead of April's parliamentary elections.

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tech 7 Oct 29 4 min read

Alphabet 10-Q Lists $924 Billion in Off-Balance-Sheet Purchase Commitments and $98.5 Billion in Contingent Obligations

Alphabet's quarterly filing, published today, Oct. 29, itemizes the more than $1 trillion in AI-related obligations its CFO cited on Wednesday's call and adds $98.5 billion in contingent commitments, up about $23 billion in a quarter. More than a third of the cloud backlog's quarterly growth traces to Crux AI, a related-party venture, while paid-click growth on Search slowed to 8%.

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finance 9 Oct 29 4 min read

Alphabet Shares Fall Up to 13.5% Thursday, Heading Toward a Record Market-Value Loss Near $500 Billion

Alphabet's stock was down roughly 11% to 13% in Thursday's session, Oct. 29, putting it on track for its worst post-earnings drop since its 2004 IPO and the second-largest single-day market-cap loss on record. The slide has dragged the Nasdaq down more than 1.5%. Negative free cash flow and a $195 billion to $205 billion capex guide are now the test for the AI spending trade.

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finance 7 Oct 29 4 min read

Caterpillar Falls 9% to 12% Premarket Despite Earnings Beat as Alphabet Slide Deepens and Nasdaq 100 Futures Drop 1.3%

Since Alphabet's results sent its shares down about 10% after hours Wednesday, the selloff has widened. Alphabet is down 10% to nearly 12% premarket, Caterpillar is down 9% to nearly 12% despite beating on earnings, and Nasdaq 100 futures are off as much as 1.3%. Amazon and Intel report after the close today, Oct. 29, and Caterpillar's opening move will show whether it lands in the record books.

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finance 9 Oct 29 4 min read

Anthropic's IPO Filing Lists More Than $750 Billion in Compute Commitments, With Google, Broadcom and SpaceX at the Top

Since Anthropic filed its S-1 on Oct. 26, the prospectus has shown who gets paid: Google, Broadcom and Elon Musk's SpaceX lead more than $750 billion in computing deals, ahead of Amazon and Microsoft. Against that, the company reported $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss, and a new music-publisher lawsuit adds to its legal exposure. The roadshow could start the week of Nov. 9.

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finance 8 Oct 29 4 min read

Nasdaq Futures Fall About 1% as Alphabet Drops 10% Premarket and Software Stocks Get Hit

Nasdaq 100 futures are down roughly 1% before the open on Thursday, Oct. 29, after Alphabet shares slid more than 10% in premarket trading on search ad results and a jump in AI-related cash burn. Microsoft is up about 3.5% on a cash-flow beat, so the market is separating AI spenders by payoff, not selling them all. September inflation data due today and Amazon and Intel earnings after the close are the next tests.

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tech 8 Oct 29 4 min read

Alphabet Says AI Mode Earns Less Per Query as Google Search Growth Slows to 12% From 17%

Since Alphabet's Oct. 28 report sent shares down about 10% after hours, the company's own explanation has come into focus. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler said lower monetization in AI Mode weighed on search growth, which slowed to 12% from 17%. Cloud revenue more than doubled, and Alphabet has not put a number on the 2027 capex increase it says is coming.

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tech 7 Oct 29 4 min read

Oracle Closes Nearly 11% Higher After Pledging a Financing Cap; Alphabet Falls Nearly 10% After Hours

Oracle's regular-session jump on Oct. 28 came after it said it would cap external financing and turn cash flow positive in the second half of fiscal 2028. Microsoft rose roughly 3% to 4% in extended trading with free cash flow still positive, while Alphabet dropped nearly 10% on a search miss and $9.07 billion of cash burn. Microsoft's own CFO says its capex is set to accelerate in the second half of its fiscal year.

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tech 8 Oct 29 4 min read

Alphabet Shares Fall and Microsoft's Rise After Hours as Free Cash Flow Splits: Negative $9.1 Billion vs. Positive $18.6 Billion

Alphabet and Microsoft both reported accelerating cloud growth on Oct. 28, but Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on capex and burned $9.1 billion in free cash flow, while Microsoft stayed $18.6 billion positive. Alphabet stock fell sharply in extended trading and Microsoft's rose. Amazon reports Thursday, Oct. 29, and regular-session trading Thursday will show whether the split holds.

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tech 7 Oct 28 3 min read

Alphabet Stock Falls 8% to 9% After Hours as Free Cash Flow Turns Negative on $51.4 Billion in Capex

Alphabet's third-quarter revenue grew 25% to $127.6 billion and Cloud sales more than doubled, but free cash flow came in at negative $9.07 billion and long-term debt reached $125.1 billion. Shares fell roughly 8% to 9% in after-hours trading. Alphabet held its 2026 capex range at $195 billion to $205 billion and said 2027 spending will rise significantly, with details due on the Q4 call.

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tech 7 Oct 28 4 min read

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, ranks first on Artificial Analysis index, but only vetted cyber defenders get access

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon today, Oct. 28, 15 days after widening access to Gemini 4 Argon. Independent tester Artificial Analysis puts it first on its Intelligence Index at 59, one point ahead of Claude Opus 5.5, but the public cannot use it yet and Google has given no date. The gap at the top is a few points, and the cyber scores come from Google's own tests.

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tech 7 Oct 28 3 min read

Bloomberg Source Also Says OpenAI Will Buy Google AI Chips, Terms Unknown, as Alphabet Reports After the Bell

A person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that OpenAI intends to buy chips from Google, adding a second report to The Information's earlier account. OpenAI and Google declined to comment and no terms are known. Alphabet reports third-quarter results after the close today, Oct. 28, with its TPU business in focus.

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tech 6 Oct 28 4 min read

Google Opens Gemini and Search to Third-Party Apps Through New Connected Apps Platform, Starting With a U.S. Preview

Google on Oct. 28 launched a Connected Apps Platform that lets developers build once and put their apps inside Gemini, Search, or both. Access is limited to a U.S. waitlist preview, and Google has not given a date for wider availability. Pichai says the goal is a single box for chat and tasks, which puts Google in the middle of how people reach other companies' services.

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tech 7 Oct 28 4 min read

South Korea fines Google and Apple $47.6 million over in-app payment rules

South Korea's media regulator fined Google 42.9 billion won and Apple 20.81 billion won, 63.7 billion won combined, on Oct. 28 for effectively forcing developers onto their payment systems. It is the first enforcement of a 2021 law, and it came more than three years after the penalties were first proposed. Both companies now have three months from receipt of the orders to allow external payment links and revise their commission structures.

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tech 7 Oct 28 3 min read

OpenAI Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips, The Information Reports, a Day Before Alphabet Earnings

The Information reported Tuesday that OpenAI plans to buy Google's Tensor Processing Units, citing one person familiar with the matter. OpenAI declined to comment and no terms are public. Alphabet reports third-quarter results after the market close today, Oct. 28, with its TPU business and cloud growth under scrutiny.

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finance 7 Oct 28 4 min read

AI Credit Fears Ease After Meta Announces $95 Billion Stock Offering Plan, With Alphabet and Amazon Reports Still Ahead

Credit-default swap spreads on AI-linked borrowers have pulled back from last week's highs after Meta announced a $95 billion stock offering plan on Monday, Oct. 26. Meta's spreads are still up 177% this year and Amazon's 129%. Alphabet and Microsoft report Wednesday, Oct. 28, Amazon on Thursday, Oct. 29, and their spending outlooks are the next test for tech bonds.

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tech 8 Oct 26 4 min read

Anthropic Draft Prospectus Details $518 Billion in Compute Commitments, With $111.1 Billion Owed to Google and $110 Billion to Amazon

Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus breaks its minimum infrastructure obligations down by supplier, and roughly 80% of the $518 billion is non-cancelable or payable regardless of usage. The same filing says the cloud giants selling Anthropic that capacity increasingly see it as a competitor. Alphabet reports Oct. 28 and Amazon Oct. 29, and both will book gains tied to Anthropic's valuation.

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finance 7 Oct 26 4 min read

Asian Stocks Mixed and Brent Falls More Than 1% as Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon Earnings and Central Bank Decisions Loom

Asian markets opened the week split, with chip and AI names leading losses in Tokyo and Seoul and oil giving back part of Friday's jump to a four-year high. The market's attention now turns to Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon earnings and a run of central bank decisions. The question for investors is whether AI capital spending is producing earnings, with Treasury yields near 5% raising the cost of the borrowing that funds it.

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tech 6 Oct 25 3 min read

Google Cloud Revenue Rose 82% to $24.8 Billion in Q2 as Alphabet's Capex Doubled to $44.9 Billion

Alphabet's second-quarter results showed Google Cloud revenue up 82% to $24.8 billion, a $514 billion contracted backlog, and a Gemini app at 950 million monthly users. Capital spending of $44.9 billion in the quarter exceeded the entire Cloud segment's revenue. The open question is how long that spending outruns the cash it generates.

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tech 6 Oct 25 4 min read

Chartbeat: Google Search Referrals to Publishers Fell 40% in the Year to July 2026

Chartbeat's annual publisher playbook shows Google Search referrals to hundreds of publishers dropped 40% from July 2025 to July 2026, twice the prior year's decline. UK group Reach says its Google referrals fell about 55% and its digital revenue dropped £6.9 million in the first half of 2026. Publishers are splitting between suing AI companies and signing paid deals, and Meta's new AI-training terms take effect Oct. 30.

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tech 6 Oct 24 4 min read

Android Verifies Phone Numbers Across Every Signed-In Google Account by Default, and Users Are Only Now Noticing

Google's Android software has automatically attached a phone's SIM number to every Google account signed in on the device, a default documented since fall 2025. Users began noticing in mid-October 2026 after unprompted verification emails arrived. Google has not said whether numbers added this way feed its ad settings.

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tech 6 Oct 24 4 min read

Finnish Regulator Halts Google Data Center Sites After an Estimated 400,000 Trees Cleared Before Environmental Review

Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority ordered Google's local subsidiary on Oct. 6 to stop site preparation at two data center sites after land was cleared without completed environmental impact assessments. Google has apologized and says it acted on its best understanding of the law. The suspension is temporary, and the central question is whether Google restarts the work and what restoration it owes.

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tech 7 Oct 24 4 min read

Google Privacy Policy Now Allows Gmail, Drive and Photos Data to Inform Ads When Users Connect Them to Search

A Google privacy policy update that took effect Oct. 16 adds an exception to its promise not to use Gmail, Drive or Photos content for personalized ads: users who connect that data to services like Search can have it shape ads. Google says the feature is opt-in and ads won't be based directly on inboxes or photo libraries. What remains murky is how much of the connected data lingers after a user switches it off.

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tech 7 Oct 23 4 min read

Google DeepMind Researchers Resign Over Pentagon Classified AI Contract

At least two named DeepMind researchers, Sofia Liguori and Andreas Kirsch, have quit over Google's April deal letting the Pentagon use its AI for "any lawful government purpose." Google says it reviews every contract against its AI principles. The dispute turns on one fact both sides accept: the contract's limits on surveillance and autonomous weapons come with no Google veto over how the military uses the models.

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finance 7 Oct 21 3 min read

Tokenized Stock Volume on Robinhood Chain Hit $11.31 Billion in September as Goldman, Microsoft and Alphabet Object on OKXICE

Trading volume in tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain rose from $526 million in July to $11.31 billion in September, according to Bitwise. Meanwhile, seven more big U.S. companies have objected to tokenized versions of their shares on the OKXICE venue, and CNBC reports that 16 companies had objected as of Wednesday. The U.S. pathway lets companies say no, and the objector list is growing.

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tech 8 Oct 21 3 min read

OpenAI Puts GPT-6 Models on Google Cloud, Reaching All Three Major U.S. Clouds

OpenAI and Google Cloud announced today, Oct. 21, that GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview in Google's Model Garden, with broader availability promised in the coming weeks. OpenAI's models now sit on Microsoft, Amazon and Google clouds, six months after Microsoft's exclusive license ended. Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet all report quarterly results next week.

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tech 6 Oct 20 4 min read

Google blames 'power event' for London cloud outage that hit Revolut, bank apps and UK court video hearings

A power failure in one zone of Google Cloud's London region began knocking services offline around 7am on Tuesday, Oct. 20, disrupting Revolut, other banking services and the video system used for remote court hearings in England and Wales. Google said services began returning around 1pm London time, and the Financial Conduct Authority is seeking answers. The outage lands as UK regulators hold new powers over critical cloud suppliers, and this is their first major test.

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tech 7 Oct 19 5 min read

Test Accounts Posing as 13-Year-Olds Downloaded 135 Nudify Apps From Apple and Google Stores, Tech Transparency Project Says

Three days after Apple rewrote its App Review Guidelines, a Tech Transparency Project report released today, Oct. 19, says test accounts registered to a 13-year-old reached 135 apps with nudification features, even with parental controls on. Apple and Google both ban such apps, and the group's findings point to developer-supplied age ratings as the weak link.

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energy 7 Oct 19 4 min read

Google Signs 20-Year Deal for 890 MW of Nuclear Uprates as DOE Offers Vistra $4.2 Billion Conditional Loan

Constellation Energy will spend more than $4.3 billion to squeeze extra output from 11 reactors, with Google buying the power, while the Energy Department offered Vistra a conditional loan of up to $4.2 billion for similar upgrades. The extra power is small next to AI-driven demand, and the first uprated capacity is not due until 2028. Each project still needs Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval.

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economy 7 Oct 17 4 min read

EU Weighs Widening Corporate Levy to Reach Apple, Meta and Google, Six Officials Tell FT

The European Commission is considering expanding its CORE levy on large companies so US tech giants pay more without being named, six EU officials told the Financial Times on Oct. 7. Any change needs all 27 member states to agree, and Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on countries that tax US digital firms.

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finance 7 Oct 17 4 min read

Alphabet's Ruth Porat Says 2027 AI Spending Will Rise 'Significantly,' Rejects Jefferies Warning of Capital Destruction

Days after Jefferies strategist Chris Wood wrote that the likeliest outcome of the U.S. AI boom is massive capital destruction, Alphabet President Ruth Porat said her company will spend significantly more in 2027 than this year's roughly $200 billion. Alphabet has the cloud growth to point to, but its free cash flow turned negative in Q2 and its long-term debt has more than quadrupled in a year. No 2027 figure has been given.

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tech 7 Oct 16 4 min read

Suspected Chinese Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support Flaw as a Zero-Day Since Aug. 29, Google and BeyondTrust Say

BeyondTrust and Google's Mandiant say a suspected China-backed group called Armory Castle used a critical zero-day in Remote Support appliances starting Aug. 29, and the flaw went public Oct. 15. Google warns that broad exploitation of unpatched systems typically follows disclosure, and Shadowserver counts more than 1,400 BeyondTrust remote support instances exposed online.

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health 6 Oct 16 4 min read

Google, Meta and Isomorphic Commit $300 Million to Virtual Cell Effort as Anthropic's Biology Claim Draws Dispute

A $1.8 billion public-private push to build AI models of human cells now includes $300 million from Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta, plus more than $500 million from the Energy Department. Google is touting health results of its own, while Anthropic's claimed gene-editing find is already contested. The first hard test for AI-designed drugs is Isomorphic's promised human trials by the end of 2026.

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tech 6 Oct 16 4 min read

Google Moves AI Search Links Higher as Judge Tosses Publishers' AI Overviews Suits

Google announced Oct. 15 that it will show source links more often and higher in AI Overviews and AI Mode, after Chartbeat data showed news publishers' Google traffic down 40% in a year. Two weeks earlier, Judge Amit Mehta dismissed Penske Media's and Chegg's antitrust suits over AI Overviews. Google has offered no click-through numbers showing the new layout sends readers anywhere.

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tech 6 Oct 14 4 min read

White Circle Says Image Filters at OpenAI and Google Failed 13% of the Time, as Three Fired OpenAI Researchers Contest Their Dismissals

A safety firm backed by researchers from Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face and OpenAI says an off-the-shelf attack got explicit images out of DALL·E 3, Google's Nano Banana 2 and GPT-Image-2 about 13 percent of the time. Separately, three researchers fired by OpenAI say the dismissals were retaliation for safety work, which OpenAI denies. White Circle plans to release its attack pipeline and present at NeurIPS in November.

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tech 6 Oct 14 4 min read

Google Play Opens a Private Lane for Vibe-Coded Android Apps, No Developer Account Required

Google announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that U.S. adults can build apps in Google AI Studio and run them on their own devices through Google Play with only a standard Google account. Sharing with friends and family is promised in the coming months, and Google has not yet said how big that group can be.

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tech 7 Oct 13 4 min read

Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon to Paying Users and Developers at $2 per Million Input Tokens

Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to developers, enterprises and Pro and Ultra subscribers on Oct. 13, 13 days after unveiling it to a restricted group of cyber defenders. Google says it beats GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's models on benchmarks, but one outside tester says it isn't the best model out there, and the introductory price doubles on Nov. 30.

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tech 5 Oct 13 3 min read

Google Launches $180 Fitbit Edge, Ends Charge Line, Ships Oct. 27

Google announced the $180 Fitbit Edge on Monday, Oct. 12, a screen-equipped tracker priced between the $100 Fitbit Air and the $400 Pixel Watch 5. The Charge line is being discontinued, and the Gemini-powered coaching features require a $10-a-month Google Health Premium subscription after a three-month trial. Preorders are open now, and units ship Oct. 27.

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