OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Sign Global AI Cyber Defense Pact
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and nearly 130 other companies signed a joint letter on August 27 pledging faster, coordinated defenses against AI-enabled cyberattacks.
Read more →Google is one of the world’s largest technology companies and, through Google DeepMind, a leading developer of AI models such as the Gemini family. This hub tracks Google’s AI products, research, and business moves, and what they mean for users and developers.
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Google Cloud Launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, giving law firms AI agents for contract review, brief drafting and regulatory tracking, with four major firms as first users.
Read more →A2A Agent Protocol Joins AAIF, Landing Alongside Anthropic's MCP
Google's Agent2Agent protocol has become a hosted project of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, placing it under the same governance as Anthropic's MCP standard.
Read more →Google Adds AI Chat Personalization to Search, Discover and News
Google is rolling out an AI chatbot that lets users type what they want to see more or less of in their Discover feed, part of a wider personalization push across Search and Google News.
Read more →Anthropic Hires Amir Salek, Founder of Google's TPU Program
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who built and led Google's Tensor Processing Unit program for nearly a decade, to help run its own in-house chip effort, Bloomberg reported.
Read more →Google Wins Right to Buy $12.2B Marvell Stake in Chip Deal
Marvell issued Google a warrant worth up to $12.2 billion in stock, tied to an expanded deal for custom AI chips in Google's TPU ecosystem, an SEC filing shows.
Read more →Google Gives Students Free AI Pro, Adds Study Tools to Search
Google is offering eligible college students a free year of its AI Pro or AI Plus plan and adding practice quizzes, study notebooks and other AI tools to Search and Gemini.
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What Is Homomorphic Encryption — and How Does AI Use It?
Homomorphic encryption lets a computer compute on data while it stays encrypted, so an AI model can process your data without ever seeing it in the clear.
Read more →Google Open-Sources HEIR to Make Private AI Inference Practical
Google released HEIR, an open-source compiler that lets AI models run inference on encrypted data without ever decrypting it, aimed largely at healthcare and finance use cases.
Read more →Google DeepMind Brings Sign-Language AI to Pixel Phones
Google DeepMind's new SL2T model lets Deaf and hard-of-hearing users sign directly to Gboard and Live Transcribe, launching free on the Pixel 11 this month.
Read more →Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash With Big Coding Gains
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, calling it its fastest workhorse model yet, with sizable coding and agent-task gains at half the introductory price of its predecessor.
Read more →Google's Gemini App Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users
Google says its Gemini app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's 28-year history.
Read more →Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Co-Found Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and three other longtime Google AI researchers have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific research with AI.
Read more →Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO
Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind's chairman, handing daily operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu as veteran researcher Jeff Dean also departs.
Read more →Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Video Understanding
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that lets robots parse live video, track task progress and coordinate with each other in real time.
Read more →Alphabet's Free Cash Flow Turns Negative on Record AI Spending
Alphabet posted its first quarterly free-cash-flow deficit as AI spending pushed capital expenditures to a record $44.9 billion, and raised its 2026 capex outlook to $205 billion.
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What Is a TPU — and How Is It Different From a GPU?
A TPU is Google's custom AI chip, purpose-built to run the matrix math behind neural networks — and now rented out by the gigawatt to power rival labs' models too.
Read more →Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a Restricted Cyber Model
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and two sibling models aimed at cutting AI-agent costs, while limiting a new vulnerability-patching version to governments and trusted partners.
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What Is the EU Digital Markets Act — and Who Must Follow It?
The EU's Digital Markets Act sets special rules for a handful of tech giants like Google and Apple, forcing them to open their platforms to rivals. Here's what it does and why.
Read more →EU Orders Google to Open Android, Search Data to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission issued two binding Digital Markets Act rulings on July 16, forcing Google to give rival AI assistants deeper Android access and share anonymized search data with competitors.
Read more →DeepMind Safety Researcher Quits Over Pentagon Gemini Deal
Google DeepMind AI safety researcher Alex Turner resigned after the company signed a Pentagon Gemini deal that lacks binding limits on autonomous weapons and surveillance use.
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