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Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (www.digitaldigging.org)
12 days ago Mexico Google Iran Refugee

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Google Texas

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (www.wired.com)
13 days ago Google AI Chrome

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Google Robot

Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago Google AI Chrome

Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide (developers.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Android Google

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
13 days ago Google AI Robot

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Google AI

Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
13 days ago Google

Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt visual alterations of locations or infographics (www.zdnet.com)
13 days ago Google

Though Google's SynthID tech for watermarking AI images is hard to break, there will always be ways to create AI-generated content without any labeling (arstechnica.com)
14 days ago Google AI

Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project (tech.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Google Nobel

Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (blog.google)
14 days ago Google

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Google

Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Google

Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google (yro.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Google

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag (www.wired.com)
16 days ago Google Robot

Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed (yro.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google

Top Online Sites Debate Cutting Off Google's Crawlers (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Google

Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine (yro.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Trump Google

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (www.reuters.com)
19 days ago Google

Google says it appreciates the engagement by the Trump administration and US government on the EU's $1B fine; Trump called the fine “illegal” (news.bloomberglaw.com)
19 days ago Trump Google

Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Google AI

Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option (yro.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Google

Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up ~$500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Google

EU Fines Google $1 Billion For Breaking Digital Antitrust Regulations (search.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Google

AI May Not Cause Total Jobs Armageddon Afterall: Google Reports on How AI Is Being Used at Work (wolfstreet.com)
20 days ago Google AI

EU fines Google $1 billion for search, app store antitrust violations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 days ago Google

A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is “shallow” for certain tasks (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago Google AI

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