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A coalition of four nonprofits filed suit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court seeking a court order to halt new model development at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI. The complaint, brought by the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and…
Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12 and integrated it into Google Search worldwide, marking the third model in the Gemini 4 family after Argon and Carbon. The company positions Hydrogen as a faster, lower-cost daily driver for agentic workflows while its…
Google and its partners opened pre-orders today for the first "Intelligent Eyewear" collections running Android XR, with Warby Parker frames starting at $395 and Gentle Monster at $449. The glasses ship December 10. Google is adding privacy protections for both the wearer and…
AI inference provider Fireworks AI disclosed a second security incident in a November 9 update, revealing that attackers compromised a third-party cloud provider on October 23 and used that access the next day to reach Fireworks development machines and run unauthorized…
Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome 2 on November 11, 2026, a deep-learning model that predicts how DNA variants affect gene regulation in specific human cell types and states. The model is available today for non-commercial research via the AlphaGenome API, with commercial…
Google DeepMind on November 11 released the Gemini Decisions API, a new endpoint powered by a purpose-built model called Gemini Decision 1 (gemini-decision-1). The API is designed for closed-set decisions — yes/no, multiple choice, and rubric scoring — rather than open-ended…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2.5 on November 10, calling it its most capable vision-language-action (VLA) model to date. The model is rolling out to robotics partners — not the public — after a proof-of-concept run on Mercedes-Benz production lines where Apptronik's…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on X that the Gemini platform has reached more than 1 billion monthly active users, calling it the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th to cross the billion-user threshold. At the same time, Google's official channels and…
Google DeepMind has completed a four-week proof-of-concept project using a new AI framework called AlphaProof Code to formally verify selected cryptographic guarantees in the Signal protocol, the encryption design underlying Signal, Google Messages and WhatsApp. The work,…
Google Cloud has released Cloud Pathways — the distributed machine-learning runtime originally built by Google DeepMind to train and serve its Gemini models — as a generally available product on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The company positions it as a core runtime pillar of…
Google announced two additions to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit lineup on Monday: TPU 8tx for confidential computing and TPU 8i Max for massive context windows. The systems join TPU 8t and TPU 8i, unveiled at Google Cloud Next in April, marking what the company…
A Google DeepMind research engineer has resigned in protest and gone public with concerns that the company is expanding its military AI contracts beyond what it has previously acknowledged. Sophia Liguori, 32, says she left the company on October 20, 2026 after failing to…
Google announced a $17 billion data center campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming, on November 5 — two days after midterm elections that delivered a sweeping political rebuke to AI infrastructure expansion. The company framed the investment as a model of responsible growth: 100%…
NokiaPowerUser has published what it says are leaked benchmark scores for an unannounced Google DeepMind model called Gemini 4 Pro, claiming it outperforms current and forthcoming flagship models from Anthropic and OpenAI across coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks. The leak…
A lawsuit filed this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court claims Google's Gemini artificial intelligence tools, integrated into its search platform and accessible on school-issued Chromebooks, contributed to a 13-year-old girl's suicide plan without alerting her parents or…
Google DeepMind announced on Friday that AI agents working under human supervision discovered two weaknesses in 1024-bit RSA, an encryption standard long considered obsolete. The findings were revealed in posts on X by Pushmeet Kohli, who leads DeepMind's science work, and by…
Google has acquired Crusoe's unfinished data center campus in southeastern Wyoming, taking direct control of a project the developer struggled to deliver on schedule and budget. The deal, announced November 6, caps a months-long standoff in which Google pressed Crusoe over costs…
Google has told UK-based DeepMind employees it will not enforce lifetime non-disparagement clauses against workers who have left the company, following internal pressure and a Washington Post report on November 3, 2026. The company also said it has removed the post-employment…
Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, extending maximum clip length to 15 seconds and cutting API pricing by roughly 30 percent. The update marks a measurable step forward in the video-generation race, though Google acknowledges several capabilities remain…
Google has told K-12 school districts that if they disable the company's AI tools for students, they will lose access to Google Search entirely. The policy, announced Tuesday, makes Search availability conditional on enabling the full suite of AI products—Gemini, Gemini…
A derivative lawsuit filed October 30 in Chicago federal court accuses Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and ten other directors and executives of directing Google to train its Lyria music generation models on copyrighted recordings,…
Google's plan for a 780-megawatt data center in Pine Island, Minnesota, has become a flashpoint in the national debate over AI infrastructure. The project, called Project Skyway, comes with a renewable energy package that Google and utility Xcel Energy say will benefit the…
Google DeepMind has moved its PlanAssist planning assistant from a three-council pilot into a 12-month beta across 15 English local authorities. The tool, built on the company's Gemini model, is designed to speed up the assessment of routine householder applications—loft…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced today that they will support a common technical signal letting publishers express AI‑training preferences once, instead of configuring separate rules for each company. The “policy token” lives in a site’s robots.txt file and is…
Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite has produced its first AI-generated response from orbit, the company announced Friday. During a ground-station pass over Svalbard, Norway, the spacecraft returned a haiku written by an onboard Gemma 4 model running on a Google…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, positioning it as the company's strongest model yet and claiming the top score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0. The release comes two weeks after the broader rollout of Gemini 4 Argon on October 13.…
Three House Democratic committee leaders sent oversight letters on October 28, 2026, to five leading frontier AI companies requesting they report model misalignment and safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours of discovery—and within 24 hours if critical infrastructure…
The Information reported on October 27 that OpenAI plans to purchase Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters relayed the story the same day. As of this writing, Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment and…
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a new world model that generates interactive real-time simulations with native audio, realistic physics, and human motion, while accepting natural language prompts mid-simulation to steer the scene. The model is available now as a…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, a frontier model it says is built for sustained, multi-step reasoning across software engineering, enterprise knowledge work and cybersecurity defense. But the model is not generally available. Initial access is limited…
Multiple researchers at Google DeepMind have resigned in recent weeks over contracts that allow the Pentagon to use the company's AI models in classified military environments. The departures highlight a growing gap between Google's stated AI principles and the practical control…