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Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (www.zdnet.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Google Startup AI

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Europe's Billion-Dollar Google Fine Is a Shot at American Sovereignty (www.heritage.org)
2026-8-6 Europe U.S. Google

Google Overhauls AI Leadership As DeepMind CEO Steps Aside (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and chief scientist for Alphabet (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6 Google Alphabet

Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6 Google

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 Google

Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-5 Google Startup AI

Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant remains on connected cars (9to5google.com)
2026-8-5 Android Google

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Google

New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4 Google

As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-4 Google AI Reddit

Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-4 Trump Google AI

Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-3 Google Chrome

Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster. (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-3 Google

Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Android Google

New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (www.npr.org)
2026-8-1 Google

Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (9to5google.com)
2026-8-1 Google AI Chrome

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)
2026-7-31 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)
2026-7-31 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)
2026-7-31 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)
2026-7-31 Google AI Chrome

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