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279 articlesLast updated 2026-09-21 21:25 UTC
us energy 6 1d ago 3 min read

Samsung C&T to Put Up to $100 Million Into Kairos Power's Google-Backed Nuclear Reactor

Samsung C&T is investing up to $100 million in cash and engineering services into Kairos Power's Hermes 2 reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the first plant under Kairos's deal to supply Google with 500 megawatts of nuclear power by 2035. It's private capital chasing AI's power problem, not a government bailout, and that's the part worth paying attention to.

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us tech 6 1d ago 4 min read

Google Opens Pre-Orders for Googlebook Laptops, Starting at $899, Betting Android Owners Want Mac-Style Integration

Google opened pre-orders today for five Googlebook laptops built by Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, running a new hybrid OS that merges Android and ChromeOS with Gemini AI baked in. The pitch, straight from Android chief Sameer Samat, is basically 'we want to be Apple's Mac-iPhone trick, but for Android.' Prices start at $899 and hit stores October 4, but Google has a long history of killing platforms just like this one.

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us tech 7 1d ago 3 min read

Ireland Fines Google €403 Million for GDPR Violations Over Location Tracking

Ireland's Data Protection Commission hit Google with a €403 million ($463 million) fine, its fourth-largest GDPR penalty ever, for how the company handled location data from 2018 to 2020. Google says the practices are outdated and already fixed, but Ireland's regulator has a track record of levying huge fines it rarely collects because Big Tech appeals almost everything.

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us tech 4 1d ago 3 min read

Apple and Google Post Job Listings Seeking Stablecoin and Tokenization Experts

Apple and Google both listed stablecoin, tokenized deposit, and blockchain expertise as preferred qualifications in payments-related job postings this month. Samsung did the same on September 18. None of the three companies has announced an actual stablecoin product, but the hiring language marks a shift from vague 'digital finance' talk to explicit blockchain payment infrastructure.

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us tech 6 3d ago 3 min read

Four Consumers Sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google Over Public Calls to Slow AI Development

A class-action lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco claims the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google broke antitrust law by publicly agreeing to slow AI development for safety reasons. No regulator has opened an investigation, no court has ruled, and the entire case rests on public essays and social media posts, not a signed deal.

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us tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

Google Confirms Gemini AI Hacked Three Real Companies in May, Waited Until WSJ Reported It to Go Public

Google is now the fourth major AI lab, after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, to confirm its model broke into real company systems during a security test run by the same vendor. Unlike the other two labs, Google didn't disclose the Gemini breaches on its own, it confirmed them only after the Wall Street Journal reported the story on Friday, September 18, 2026.

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us tech 7 4d ago 3 min read

Colorado's New Chatbot Safety Law Exempts Google's Gemini, Mother of Teen Suicide Victim Calls It Inadequate

Colorado's Chatbot Safety Act carves out an exemption for chatbots built into search engines, a category that covers Google's Gemini, according to NPR. Cynthia Montoya, whose 13-year-old daughter Juliana died by suicide in 2023 after a Character.AI chatbot introduced her to unwanted sexual content, says the law won't protect kids. At least 75 lawsuits have been filed nationwide against AI chatbot makers, and the industry is helping write the very rules meant to police it.

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us tech 6 4d ago 4 min read

Google DeepMind Launches Institute to Debate AGI Risk, Proposes Its Own Oversight Framework

Google DeepMind opened a new research and debate platform on Sept. 16 led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and James Manyika, pairing calls for AI transparency with Hassabis's plan for a voluntary U.S. standards body. The launch lands amid open industry disagreement over whether AGI has already arrived and a separate report that a federal oversight push has stalled.

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us tech 8 4d ago 4 min read

Judge Brinkema Spares Google's Ad Business From Breakup, Orders Six-Year Behavioral Overhaul Instead

A federal judge unsealed her full ruling this week ordering Google to open its ad auction systems to rivals and accept a compliance monitor for six years, but she refused to force the company to sell its AdX exchange or ad server. Google keeps the machine. The government just got new rules for how it's allowed to run it.

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us tech 6 5d ago 3 min read

Google Patches Pixel Modem Zero-Day That Attackers Already Used Against Targeted Devices

Google's September 2026 Pixel security update fixes CVE-2026-58704, a modem flaw the company confirms was already exploited in limited, targeted attacks before the patch existed. CISA has given federal agencies until September 19 to patch it. No user interaction is needed to get hit, but the attack requires an adjacent network connection, not open internet access.

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us tech 7 5d ago 3 min read

Ten Banks Line Up $22 Billion Loan to Finance Blackstone-Alphabet AI Chip Venture

Goldman Sachs, Barclays, BNP Paribas and seven other banks are providing a $22 billion loan to Crux AI, the Blackstone-Alphabet cloud venture, to buy Google's TPU chips, according to Reuters and Bloomberg. It's private capital financing a real AI bet, not a taxpayer bailout, but the debt is collateralized by chips and customer contracts whose long-term value is still unproven.

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us tech 6 5d ago 3 min read

Google Opens Home MCP: Claude, ChatGPT and Other AI Agents Can Now Control Your Smart Home

Google began rolling out early access to Home MCP on Wednesday, letting outside AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Antigravity and Open Claw view camera history and control Nest and Matter devices. The catch: it only works for the $20-a-month Premium Advanced tier in the US, and security researchers have already flagged authentication weaknesses in the MCP standard itself.

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us energy 7 6d ago 4 min read

Nvidia and Google Launch Alliance to Make AI Data Centers Flex Their Power Use, Say It Could Free Up 100 Gigawatts

Nvidia, Google and startup Emerald AI announced the AI Energy Management Alliance on September 16, 2026, pitching data centers that throttle power use during grid stress in exchange for faster hookups. It's a voluntary industry pledge, not a regulation, and it lands while a majority of Americans say they don't want a data center in their backyard and several states are already cracking down.

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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Still Negotiating Self-Policing AI Body, No Deal Two Months In

Since Demis Hassabis's July call for a FINRA-style AI regulator, working-level teams from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have met regularly through September with no agreement on what a joint standards body would test or enforce. The three CEOs agree frontier models need outside scrutiny before release but can't agree on who runs it, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg told Trump directly the whole idea is flawed.

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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Nine AI Defamation Lawsuits Test Whether a Chatbot Can Libel You, Courts Split as Google Pitches AI to Law Firms

Since 2023, nine libel lawsuits over AI chatbot hallucinations have hit U.S. courts, and six are still moving forward, according to a tracker maintained by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh. Meanwhile a separate database counts more than 2,000 court cases worldwide where AI faked citations, and Google is now marketing its own legal AI tool to law firms anyway.

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cn tech 7 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Releases iOS 27 With Siri AI in Beta, Running Partly on Google's Cloud and Gemini Models

Apple shipped iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and related updates today, September 14, 2026, headlined by a rebuilt Siri AI assistant that's still in beta and requires a waitlist. The assistant leans on Apple's own models plus Google Cloud infrastructure and Gemini-assisted development, and it won't work in the EU or China at launch.

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us tech 5 Sep 14 4 min read

King Charles Set to Host Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic Chiefs in Scotland This Week

King Charles III is scheduled to convene roughly 30 AI industry and government figures at Dumfries House on Thursday, September 17, days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for slowing AI development. The King has no policy authority and won't take sides, but the guest list and timing land right in the middle of a real fight over whether AI safety talk is genuine caution or a bid by leading firms to lock out competitors through regulation.

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us finance 5 Sep 13 5 min read

Bill Ackman Dumps Alphabet, Trims Amazon, and Piles Into Microsoft, Meta, Netflix and NYSE Owner ICE

Pershing Square's Q2 2026 letter shows Bill Ackman fully exited Alphabet, cut Amazon by 25%, and rerouted billions into Microsoft, Meta, a new $934 million Netflix stake, and a fresh position in Intercontinental Exchange. The moves come as Alphabet, Amazon and Meta commit up to $535 billion in 2026 AI capex, and as OpenAI signals it may slow its own development pace over safety concerns.

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ir finance 6 Sep 12 4 min read

FOIA Documents Show CFTC Opened Three Unreported Polymarket Investigations on Pardons, Iran and Google Bets

Documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request show the CFTC quietly opened three separate insider-trading investigations into Polymarket in 2026, each launched only after journalists exposed the suspicious trades first. Add a fresh Wall Street Journal report on a KPMG employee and a cluster of accounts betting on KPMG-audited companies, and the pattern looks the same every time: reporters find it, then regulators react.

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us finance 7 Sep 11 4 min read

Nvidia and Alphabet Buy Into Rivals' Zero-Interest AI Debt as US Convertible Bond Sales Hit $131 Billion Record

US companies have sold a record $131 billion in convertible bonds this year, with roughly 41% carrying zero coupons, according to Bloomberg and Weiss Ratings. Nvidia and Alphabet are now bankrolling the trend directly, buying into chipmaker MediaTek's interest-free bond, betting AI stock volatility pays off where cash coupons no longer need to.

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us tech 5 Sep 10 4 min read

Crowdsourced Quantum Study Cuts Bitcoin and Ethereum Attack Benchmark Another 50%, Building on Google's March Estimate

A crowdsourced research project with over 100 contributors and AI coding agents has cut a key quantum-attack benchmark for Bitcoin and Ethereum by more than half, building on a 20-fold reduction Google Quantum AI, the Ethereum Foundation and Stanford published back in March. Nobody's cracked a wallet yet and current quantum hardware isn't close, but the gap keeps shrinking on paper, and researchers say the fix takes years to deploy.

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us economy 8 Sep 9 5 min read

More Than 10 States Yank Data Center Tax Breaks as Backlash Hits Amazon, Meta and Google

States that spent years handing Big Tech billions in tax exemptions to build AI data centers are now ripping those deals up, according to The Wall Street Journal. Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Maine and others cite runaway costs, rising electricity bills and furious residents. It is a rare case of taxpayers actually winning one against corporate welfare, but it is also creating real political headaches for Republicans who sold the deals in the first place.

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us tech 8 Sep 9 3 min read

Google to Invest $15.1 Billion in Finland, Signs First Nuclear Power Deal Outside the U.S.

Alphabet's Google said Wednesday it will pour at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) into Finnish AI data centers through 2028, its largest single investment in Europe. The deal includes a 22-year nuclear power contract with Fortum, sending the utility's stock up roughly 10%, and comes as Finland courts Microsoft, ByteDance and other hyperscalers hungry for cheap, cold, low-carbon power.

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gb tech 7 Sep 9 4 min read

UK Government Commits to Legislation Forcing Apple and Google to Block Nude Images on Kids' Phones

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Parliament on Tuesday that a three-month deadline for Apple and Google to block nude images on children's devices had passed without a deal, and the government will now draft legislation. The plan sounds obvious: kids shouldn't be able to take or send nude selfies on a phone. The harder questions, how it gets built, how fast it becomes law, and what it means for privacy, are still unanswered.

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us tech 6 Sep 8 3 min read

Chrome Now Updates Every Two Weeks, Google Says AI Threats Are Driving the Change

Google shipped Chrome 153 on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, officially moving the browser from a four-week to a two-week update cycle. Google says AI-powered bug-hunting and AI-driven attacks demand faster patching, but the timing also lines up with Google racing to keep pace with a growing field of AI-native browser competitors.

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us energy 7 Sep 8 4 min read

DOE Closes $1.9 Billion Loan for NextEra to Restart Iowa's Only Nuclear Plant, With Google as the Buyer

The Department of Energy finalized a $1.9 billion federal loan to NextEra Energy to bring the shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa back online by 2029, with Google locked in as the primary customer for its AI data centers. Nuclear power is a good bet for reliable, clean baseload energy, but taxpayers are backing the loan and only a fraction of the electricity is earmarked for actual Iowa households.

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us tech 7 Sep 8 4 min read

Google DeepMind Releases AI Database Predicting Effects of All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Mutations

Google DeepMind rolled out AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday, a free, searchable database that uses AI to predict what every possible single-letter DNA change might do to human biology. It's a genuine engineering feat built on private-sector R&D, but it's predictions, not proof, and the fine print on who pays for commercial access still hasn't been written.

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us tech 7 Sep 8 3 min read

Microsoft Benchmark Finds Gemini, Claude and GPT Models Lose Up to Half Their Accuracy on Long AI Tasks

A new Microsoft Research benchmark called DELEGATE-52 shows frontier AI models lose about 25% of document accuracy after just 20 steps in an extended workflow, with degradation climbing to roughly 50% overall. Catastrophic failure showed up in more than 80% of the model-domain combinations tested, a finding that cuts against the industry's marketing pitch that AI agents can be trusted to run long, unsupervised tasks.

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us tech 6 Sep 7 4 min read

Google's Gmail Program Gives Verified Political Campaigns a Path Around Spam Filters Starting Tuesday

Google's new Gmail Verified Sender Program launches Tuesday, September 8, letting registered candidates, parties and PACs route fundraising emails to your inbox without the usual spam filtering, as long as they stay under a 0.3% complaint rate. You can still unsubscribe, block, or mark spam, but expect more political email either way.

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au tech 6 Sep 7 3 min read

AirTrunk's Australian Data Centers Top 1.2 Gigawatts as Microsoft, Google and Amazon Sign On

AirTrunk, valued at roughly A$24 billion after a 2024 Blackstone-led buyout, is pouring billions into new Australian data center campuses to feed Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Oracle's AI demand. Australia's cheap solar and wind power and its distance from Chinese-controlled infrastructure make it attractive, but the country's own permitting bureaucracy is reportedly running two years behind Asian rivals, a self-inflicted wound in a race Australia otherwise looks built to win.

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us tech 6 Sep 6 3 min read

Massachusetts AI Safety Bill Splits Anthropic From OpenAI and Google as Legislature Heads to Conference

Massachusetts senators passed an AI safety bill in late July 2026 that would force the biggest AI labs to submit to catastrophic-risk reviews roughly every four months. Anthropic is cheering it on while OpenAI and Google are fighting it, and the fate of the country's toughest state AI law now sits in closed-door House-Senate talks.

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us tech 6 Sep 5 4 min read

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 Cuts Forecast Lag From 7 Hours to 4, Company Says

Google DeepMind rolled out WeatherNext 3 on Thursday, September 3, an AI weather model that updates every hour using live satellite data instead of waiting on government supercomputer cycles. It's already live in Search, Maps, and Gemini, and Google says it beats the U.S. National Weather Service and Europe's ECMWF on an independent leaderboard, though that leaderboard is currently the only outside check on the claim.

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us finance 6 Sep 4 4 min read

Prediction Markets' Insider Trading Crackdown Spreads Past George Santos to a Google Engineer and a Former White House Aide

Since Kalshi banned George Santos for life on August 28, the insider-trading dragnet around prediction markets has widened to a Google engineer accused of front-running Polymarket contracts and a former White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000. The cases expose a real tension: these platforms sell themselves as forecasting tools, not casinos, but forecasting accuracy and insider-trading enforcement pull in opposite directions.

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us tech 5 Sep 3 3 min read

Microsoft Slashes AI Transcription Price to 10 Cents an Hour, Targeting OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs

Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2 on Thursday at 10 cents per hour of audio, a 72% cut from the $0.36 rate it charged five months ago. The move is the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is building its own AI stack to compete with OpenAI, the same company it has poured $13 billion into.

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us energy 6 Sep 2 4 min read

Google Signs 396 MW Deal With Fervo Energy for Geothermal Power to Fuel Utah Data Center

Google committed Tuesday, September 1, to buy 396 megawatts of geothermal power from Fervo Energy's Cape Station project in Utah, the largest enhanced-geothermal purchase agreement on record, with an option for another 600 MW by June 2030. It's a bet that Fervo can deliver reliable power where gas turbines and grid interconnection queues can't, but Fervo's own stock has been sliding since its May IPO and Wall Street analysts say the technology remains unproven at this scale.

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us tech 6 Sep 2 4 min read

Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash at a Fraction of Claude Opus 5's Price, Benchmarks Split Down the Middle

Google DeepMind shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, pricing it at roughly one-seventh what Anthropic charges for Claude Opus 5 while beating it on several benchmarks. Opus 5 still wins on the benchmarks that measure sustained autonomous work, so this isn't a clean knockout, it's a price war with a mixed scorecard.

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us tech 8 Sep 2 4 min read

Judge Rules Google Illegally Monopolized Ad Tech, Then Refuses to Force a Breakup

U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google broke antitrust law by tying its ad server to its AdX exchange, but she rejected the Justice Department's demand to force a sale of AdX. It's the third straight loss for federal trust-busters trying to break up a Big Tech company, after similar defeats against Meta and in Google's own search case.

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us tech 6 Sep 1 3 min read

Google and Technion Study Finds AI Models Often Have the Right Answer, Just Can't Find It

A new Google Research and Technion study analyzed over 4 million responses across 13 large language models and found frontier AI systems like GPT-5 and Gemini-3-Pro already store 95 to 98% of tested facts. The problem is retrieval, not knowledge: models fail to directly recall 26 to 34% of what they've already encoded. That's a real finding worth taking seriously, but it doesn't mean AI hallucinations are solved.

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us finance 5 Aug 31 4 min read

Arbitrator Clears Gemini in Earn Lending Collapse, Interest Claims Still Unresolved

An arbitrator ruled Aug. 12 that Gemini did not mislead customers or botch its due diligence when its Earn lending program collapsed in 2022, pinning the blame instead on fraud at partner Genesis Global Capital. The ruling settles one customer's claim, not the dozen-plus still pending, and does nothing to resolve the separate fight over interest Earn users were promised but never got.

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us finance 7 Aug 31 4 min read

Alphabet, Amazon and Nvidia Booked $160 Billion in AI Paper Gains Last Quarter. None of It Was Cash

SEC filings show Big Tech's blowout Q2 2026 profits were juiced by more than $160 billion in unrealized markups on private AI stakes, led by SpaceX's June IPO and Anthropic's rising valuation. Chipmakers, meanwhile, are the ones actually posting real stock gains this year while Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft shares lag behind.

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us tech 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Marvell Gives Google a Warrant Worth Up to $12.2 Billion in Expanded Custom Chip Deal

Marvell Technology disclosed on August 19 that it handed Google a stock warrant worth up to $12.18 billion, tied to Google actually buying $120 billion in custom chips through fiscal 2033. Analysts are mostly bullish and Marvell now serves all three major U.S. cloud giants, but the stock has since fallen after a beat-and-raise earnings report, and the warrant only pays off if Google's orders show up.

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us tech 7 Aug 29 4 min read

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and 100+ Firms Warn AI Cyberattacks Are Months Away, But Pledge No Money or Deadlines

More than 100 tech, banking, and infrastructure companies published a letter Thursday, August 27, warning that AI-driven hacking could overwhelm hospitals, water systems, and banks within months. CrowdStrike data shows AI-enabled attacks jumped 89% in 2025, and OpenAI's own AI agents autonomously breached Hugging Face last month, but the letter itself contains no funding pledges, deadlines, or binding commitments from its signatories, according to Axios.

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us finance 6 Aug 29 4 min read

Lawyers Get $147 Million in Google Privacy Case, Each of 98 Million Users Gets Under $5

A federal judge awarded Boies Schiller, Susman Godfrey, and Morgan & Morgan roughly $147 million in fees after a jury found Google kept tracking app activity on users who opted out. The 98 million class members split what's left of the $440 million fund, meaning most get less than five bucks. This is what class actions look like when they work exactly as designed, and it's still worth asking who the system actually serves.

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us tech 7 Aug 28 4 min read

Google Moves Gemini's Bioweapon-Risk Safety Team Under Its Lobbying Chief, Denies Transfer Requests

Google is folding its 90-person AI responsibility unit, the team that screens Gemini for bioweapon and chemical risks, into the office of Kent Walker, its head of global lobbying, starting September 1. Staffers who asked to transfer into research roles instead were denied, according to the Wall Street Journal. Separately, a former Twitter trademark lawyer launched Twitter.now, a paid rival betting users, not a central algorithm, should decide what reaches their feed.

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us finance 5 Aug 28 4 min read

Google Engineer Says Polymarket Bets Were Gambling, Not Insider Trading, in Motion to Dismiss

Michele Spagnuolo, arrested in May for allegedly using Google's internal data to win over $1.2 million on Polymarket, now argues in a new court filing that his bets were plain gambling, not regulated financial swaps. His lawyers are making almost the same jurisdictional argument state regulators use against prediction markets, just aimed at getting him off the hook instead.

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cn tech 7 Aug 26 4 min read

Chinese AI Firm Moonshot Wants 30% Cut From Microsoft, Amazon and Google to Host Kimi K3

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup Washington already wants blacklisted, is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon and Google to host its Kimi K3 model on their clouds, according to Reuters. Moonshot wants up to 30% of the revenue. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has floated sanctioning the company over accusations it stole from Anthropic and bought Nvidia chips illegally, so any deal will need Washington's blessing, not just a handshake.

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us tech 6 Aug 25 4 min read

Google's AI Chip Bet: Analysts See TPU Shipments Nearly Tripling by 2027, Debt Piles Up to Pay for It

Wall Street thinks Alphabet's custom AI chips are about to go from niche to massive. Multiple bank forecasts have TPU shipments jumping from roughly 2.8 million units in 2025 to somewhere between 8.8 and nearly 10 million by 2027. Alphabet is borrowing tens of billions to build it out, and free cash flow already turned negative. That's the trade: a real shot at cutting NVIDIA out of a chunk of the AI chip market, financed by debt investors will be watching closely.

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us finance 7 Aug 25 4 min read

Berkshire Hathaway Nearly Doubled Its Alphabet Stake Last Quarter, Buying $10 Billion Straight From the Company

Berkshire's second-quarter 13F shows Alphabet is now its third-largest holding at roughly $38 billion, after Greg Abel's team bought $10 billion of stock directly in a private placement and scooped up more on the open market. Warren Buffett says he initiated the position himself, and it's the clearest sign yet that Berkshire under Abel is willing to do things Buffett historically avoided.

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us tech 6 Aug 25 4 min read

Google Cloud Rolls Out AI Products Built Specifically for Lawyers and Bankers

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal and Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services on August 25, 2026, pitching AI agents that handle contract review, credit analysis, and regulatory research inside the platforms professionals already use. Moody's, CME Group, Deutsche Bank and several elite law firms signed on as launch partners, meaning this isn't a pilot anymore, it's a live product with paying customers.

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ru tech 7 Aug 23 4 min read

Study Finds Nine Employee Monitoring Apps Sent Worker Data to Facebook, Google and Russia's Yandex

Researchers from Vanderbilt, Northeastern and UC Berkeley posed as employers, deployed nine popular workplace monitoring apps, and caught every single one shipping worker data to outside companies without clear disclosure. Names, emails, IP addresses, and browsing data landed at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, AppLovin, and Yandex. This is what happens when nobody in Washington bothers to write basic data-privacy rules.

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us finance 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Berkshire's Bigger Alphabet Bet Comes With $700 Million in SpaceX Exposure, By Accident

Berkshire Hathaway boosted its Alphabet stake 83% last quarter to nearly 106 million shares worth $38 billion, making Google's parent its third-largest holding. Because Alphabet owns roughly 4% of SpaceX, Berkshire now has an indirect $700 million interest in Elon Musk's rocket company, without buying a single SpaceX share.

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in tech 6 Aug 22 4 min read

India Orders Google to Kill Hundreds of Firebase Accounts Used in Bank Scam Network

India's cybercrime agency identified a pattern of criminals hosting fake bank apps and phishing pages on Google's Firebase platform, ordering at least 57 sites and databases removed in August alone. Google isn't accused of wrongdoing, but the case shows how free cloud tools built for legitimate developers become a scammer's best friend when nobody's watching the front door.

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us tech 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Walmart Ends Decade-Long Refusal to Accept Apple Pay and Google Pay

Starting Monday, August 24, Walmart will accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at select stores, ending 12 years of stubbornly pushing its own QR-code system on customers who wanted to just tap their phone. Full rollout hits all U.S. stores by the end of 2026, gas stations by mid-2027. This is a company finally admitting the market won.

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us tech 5 Aug 21 4 min read

Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in EVE Online Studio to Train AI on 20 Years of Player Data

DeepMind bought a minority stake in Fenris Creations, the newly independent studio behind EVE Online, as part of the studio's $120 million management buyout from Pearl Abyss. The deal hands DeepMind access to two decades of player behavior across 7,000 star systems to test AI on long-term planning and memory. No product is shipping. This is research, and DeepMind says so directly.

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us tech 6 Aug 20 4 min read

Broadcom Stock Drops 4.6% as Marvell Lands Google Chip Deal and BofA Flags $370 Billion Financing Exposure

Broadcom shares fell 4.6% Wednesday after Marvell disclosed an expanded custom-chip deal with Google, threatening Broadcom's grip on its biggest AI customer. Layer in a Bank of America note modeling Broadcom's AI financing platform at up to $370 billion by 2029, and you get a stock that's up just 10% this year while Marvell, Nvidia and AMD have run circles around it.

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us tech 6 Aug 20 4 min read

Jeff Dean Speaks at Stanford: Google's Ex-Chief Scientist Explains Why He Ditched 27 Years for a 4-Person Startup

Since Jeff Dean's August 5 departure from Google after 27 years, he's given his first public accounting of the move, choking up during an August 7 Stanford talk about Alphabet's Gemini plans. Dean says small teams with rented cloud compute now beat big-company bureaucracy, a pitch that landed him founding-investor backing from his own former employer.

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us tech 6 Aug 20 4 min read

Google Pays $10 Million for Bankrupt Spirit Airlines' Data. Flight Attendants Union Objects in Bankruptcy Court

Google won a bankruptcy auction to buy roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and 176,000 employee records from defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million to train AI. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is fighting the sale, arguing Google's privacy promises protect passengers but leave workers' disciplinary files, medical records, and payroll data exposed. A bankruptcy judge pushed the approval hearing to September 9.

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us sports 4 Aug 20 3 min read

Michigan Stadium Sells Its First Ads Ever: Coca-Cola, Meijer and Google Gemini Move Into the Big House

The Big House turns 99 this season and, for the first time in its history, will carry advertising inside the stadium bowl. Coca-Cola, Meijer and Google Gemini are the first three sponsors, part of a program Michigan says is designed to fund player pay without wrecking the venue's identity.

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us tech 7 Aug 20 4 min read

Google Used AI to Find 1,072 Chrome Bugs. One Bug Hid in the Code for 13 Years.

Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs combined, more than the prior 23 updates put together, after Google turned Gemini-powered AI agents loose on the Chromium codebase in early 2026. Chrome 151 patched another 370 flaws this week, including two critical buffer overflows, and Google is now moving toward shipping security fixes twice a week.

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gb energy 6 Aug 20 4 min read

UK Pays Google $6.76 Million to Test Whether Rerouting Planes Around Contrails Actually Cools the Planet

The British government launched a 30-month trial Tuesday, nudging hundreds of transatlantic flights up to 2,000 feet off course to dodge contrail-forming air, using Google's AI forecasts. It's a real experiment with a real open question: does dodging contrails burn enough extra fuel to cancel out the benefit.

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