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Google rolls out an embeddable “Preferred Sources” button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (www.searchenginejournal.com)
2026-8-21 Android NLP Google

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years (blog.google)
2026-8-21 Google

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-21 Google

Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C, with participation from Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Google AI

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (www.niemanlab.org)
2026-8-20 Google AI

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (www.tomsguide.com)
2026-8-20 Google AI

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 Google Facebook AI Instagram

Google Pixel 11 review: great design, nice camera features, and shares many features of the Pro phone but the hardware is unchanged and very expensive at $899 (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 Google

Google Pixel 11 Pro review: Magic Capture and the voice-to-text Rambler features are very useful but subpar gaming performance and HiLight is useless (www.wired.com)
2026-8-20 Google

Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: tougher body with IP68 rating and a decent triple rear camera but an iterative hardware upgrade with design that feels dated (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 Google

Google Pixel Watch 5 review: Improved GPS is good, gesture controls are great, but the new health features haven't rolled out yet and it is $50 more expensive (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 Google GPS

Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, with Marvell granting Google a warrant to buy up to 58M+ shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 Google

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-19 Google AI

Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19 Google AI

Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 Google Republican

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (www.newscientist.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-18 China Google Manufacturing

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-16 Google Alibaba

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Google

Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-14 Google

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Google

Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its “most intelligent workhorse model” for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch (blog.google)
2026-8-14 Google

Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-13 Google Startup AI

A livestream of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah (www.youtube.com)
2026-8-13 Google

Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI

The Pixel Tag Is Google's Answer To the AirTag (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13 Google

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