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Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal (yro.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Google

Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago Android Google

Google Begins Offering Free SAT Practice Tests Powered By Gemini (news.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Google

Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Google Amazon

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Google

Substack launches its Substack TV app for Apple TV and Google TV in beta for free and paid subscribers, with access matched to their current subscription levels (on.substack.com)
15 days ago Google Apple

Google rolls out Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, providing access to users' Gmail and Google Photos for more tailored responses, for US Pro and Ultra subs (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Google AI Intelligence

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (www.wired.com)
15 days ago Google AI

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

Permalink to This week in AI updates: Google's UCP standard, a redesigned Slackbot, and more (January 16, 2026) (sdtimes.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Google Temporarily Disabled YouTube's Advanced Captions Without Warning (tech.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Google YouTube

Developer Rescues Stadia Bluetooth Tool That Google Killed (tech.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Google

Google says Gemini won't have ads, as ChatGPT prepares to add them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago Google

Crypto News Outlet Cointelegraph Loses 80% of Traffic After Google Penalty For Parasitic Blackhat SEO Deal (news.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google

Gemini AI assistant tricked into leaking Google Calendar data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago Google AI Nvidia Jeff Bezos

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago Google

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Google YouTube

Google Chrome now lets you turn off on-device AI model powering scam detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago Google AI Chrome

Google Chrome tests Gemini-powered AI "Skills" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago Google AI Chrome

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (www.theverge.com)
21 days ago Google

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Google Asset

Google now lets you change your @gmail.com address, rolling out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago Google

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (therecord.media)
22 days ago Google

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (blog.google)
22 days ago Google

Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (www.wired.com)
22 days ago Google

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member (www.theverge.com)
22 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Google Mobile

Source: Apple's Google Gemini deal will be a cloud contract where Apple pays Google; another source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider (t.co)
22 days ago Google Apple

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago Android Google Browser Chrome

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