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Google and Google DeepMind ship Gemini and a growing AI stack across Search, Workspace, Android, and Pixel. We follow every Google AI release, DeepMind research update, and competitive move against OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Lake Mariner's $3.2B AI data center exposes an accountability gap

A fire at TeraWulf's Somerset site revealed dry hydrants and no clear owner among TeraWulf, Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after planning trip with Google Gemini

Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google's Gemini Spark agent takes over Google Photos library management

The personal agent can now edit images, build albums, and pull calendar events from photos — rolling out to Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google pitches Hollywood studios $40M-per-character AI licensing deals

Google is offering Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal hundreds of millions to train Gemini on their libraries — with a per-character price tag.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google launches Pics, a Workspace AI image editor aimed at Canva

Built on Gemini and Nano Banana, Pics ships inside Docs and Slides with 2K and 4K upscaling and object-level prompt editing.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Gemini Notebook lets users query 100,000 books they've bought on Google Play

Google's new Expert Intelligence feature turns purchased books into queryable sources, with 15 authors building custom Featured Notebooks.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini

The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google sign open letter on rogue AI cyber threats

Over 100 tech and cyber firms want joint public-private defense as AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Google tightens Android app memory rules as AI chip demand squeezes phones
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Google tightens Android app memory rules as AI chip demand squeezes phones

New Play Store thresholds land in February 2027, with Zero Tap Sign-In mandatory by April 2027 as memory supply tightens.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google's AI Mode adds flight price tracking and hotel booking

AI Mode now handles trip planning end-to-end with 300+ airline partners and 10 hotel chains, pushing Google deeper into agent territory.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe strips filler words across 85+ languages

The new audio model handles specialized jargon, tags up to three speakers, and lands while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains overdue.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Analysis

Gemini's Spark, Daily Brief, and chat sprawl expose an AI branding problem

Google's Gemini app now houses three separately branded features — a pattern Anthropic and OpenAI repeat, and Apple deliberately avoids.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
AI models still flub these seven puzzles humans can solve
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AI models still flub these seven puzzles humans can solve

Frontier LLMs jumped from 18% to near-perfect on NYT Connections in months — but mental rotation, ARC-AGI, and river-crossing puzzles still expose the gaps.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google Discover adds an AI chatbot for tuning your feed

A new chatbot interface inside the Google app lets users describe what they want in Discover and remembers those preferences.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google adds Preferred Sources button as AI search guts publisher traffic

Readers can now one-click a site as a favorite in Search, Discover, and News — Google's concession to publishers bleeding clicks to AI Overviews.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Marvell jumps 6% on Google deal for up to $12.2B stake tied to AI chips
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Marvell jumps 6% on Google deal for up to $12.2B stake tied to AI chips

Google gains the right to buy 58.9M Marvell shares at $206.58 apiece through fiscal 2033, expanding its custom silicon push beyond Broadcom.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Perplexity's Airtel giveaway added millions of India users, and some are paying
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Perplexity's Airtel giveaway added millions of India users, and some are paying

Downloads collapsed 90% after the free offer closed, but monthly revenue hit $156,000 in July 2026 — more than four times January 2025.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google's Pet Memory can't tell three cats apart after two weeks of testing

Gemini for Home's new $20-a-month feature promises per-pet recognition on Nest cameras, but labels every cat as the first one you name.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google makes visible watermark on AI images, video, and audio optional

Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria outputs can now ship without the visible tag; invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata stay on.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Hyperscalers face natural gas price shock as Noreva forecasts $10 BTU hubs

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are building 17-plus gigawatts of gas plants for AI data centers just as prices could triple.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash at half the price of 3.6, three weeks later

The new workhorse model posts 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 and 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, with input tokens at $0.75 per million.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google unveils Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, and Gemini features at Made by Google '26

The Pixel 11 starts at $899, a $100 hike; Google finally answers Apple's AirTag with a $29 Pixel Tag tied to Find Hub.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google's Pixel Watch 5 leans on AI and health software, adds $50 to the price

The $399 watch keeps the hardware nearly static and bets on offline Gemini, insulin resistance trends, and breathing emergency detection.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud deal to expand AI in airline operations

Europe's largest low-cost carrier is deepening its bet on cloud AI to run scheduling, ops, and customer-facing systems.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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