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Offers the Decisions API through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio
Google's Gemini API can now answer up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice and rubric questions about one shared input without writing a sentence. The Gemini Decisions API, powered by Gemini Decision 1, scores the options in a single pass and returns probabilities and confidence scores.
Updated 12 minutes ago
Gemini 4 Argon is generally available, and Gemini 4 Carbon was released publicly on November 10 to paid developers, businesses and AI Ultra subscribers.
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon publicly on November 10, making its strongest model available to paid developers, businesses and Google AI Ultra subscribers. Carbon is built for long, multi-step work such as complex coding, scientific research and finding software vulnerabilities.
Updated 2 hours ago
Competitor in consumer image generation with Gemini
OpenAI now splits ChatGPT image generation by subscription tier. Paid users get Images 2.6, which turns a prompt or reference image into a short looping GIF-style clip; free users stay on the older shared generator.
Updated 2 days ago
Led the takedown; banned Videostrong from certified Android devices
Google and a coalition of security firms said on November 2 that they had cut the operators of a hidden Android TV backdoor off from the servers controlling more than 1.3 million devices. Google banned the manufacturer, Shenzhen-based Videostrong, from building certified Android devices.
Updated 4 days ago
Building new campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, and funding shared water infrastructure
Google will spend US$15 billion building data centres in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028. The company says it will pay for all the electricity its campuses use, cover the cost of connecting them to the grid, and work with utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad to add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy capacity.
Appealing liability and remedies; filed its final brief on October 19, 2026, with arguments set for January 2027
Google told the D.C. Circuit on October 19 that its default-search deals with Apple and Mozilla were lawful competition, not exclusion, in its last brief before oral argument. The company is appealing both the 2024 finding that it illegally maintained a search monopoly and the remedies Judge Amit Mehta ordered in 2025.
Owner and future operator of the Wyoming campus
Crusoe spent more than a year assembling land, permits and a power plan for a data center campus in southeast Wyoming. It never signed the tenant the project needed. On November 6, Google bought the site.
Distributes Omni 1.2 Flash through the Gemini app, Vids, Cloud, and Ads
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generates video clips up to 15 seconds long, up from 10 seconds in the previous version, and edits them through follow-up prompts instead of full re-generation. The model costs $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% less than Omni 1.1.
Updated 5 days ago
Changed defaults for K-12 accounts and clarified Search can stay on without Gemini
Starting early next year, Google accounts issued by K-12 schools will have Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search switched off unless an administrator turns each one on. Google clarified after criticism that schools can leave the Gemini apps off and still enable Search. But Search carries AI Overviews and AI Mode that cannot be switched off, so a school that bans AI still gives up student search.
Updated Nov 3
Testing the prototype's TPUs against heat and radiation in orbit; plans two linked satellites for 2027
On October 1, a Google prototype satellite rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 into low Earth orbit carrying four Tensor Processing Units, the chips Google builds for machine learning. After about three weeks of checking out its subsystems, the spacecraft took a prompt from the ground on October 30: a chip running Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, downlinked as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway.
Updated Nov 1
Power purchaser for Cheyenne data centers
American Electric Power will spend about $4 billion on a 702-megawatt fuel cell plant near Cheyenne, Wyoming, to supply Google under a 20-year contract. The utility also bought 190 megawatts of Mainspring linear generators, with options to reach 1.6 gigawatts by 2034. Neither system burns fuel in a turbine, unlike the gas plants supplying most of AEP's new capacity.
Shipping the feature
Google's Gemini app now edits the files it generates. Announced October 29, users can open PDFs, Google Docs, spreadsheets, slide decks, Markdown files, text files, and code directly in the chat window, type manual changes, highlight sections to prompt rewrites, or ask Gemini to adjust tone and layout without opening a separate document editor.
Updated Oct 30
Contracting distributed capacity to offset data center load; its Voltus deal now totals about 1.2 gigawatts
Google and Voltus have added 1,070 megawatts of virtual power plant capacity across PJM, on top of the 100 megawatts they signed in June. Google calls the result a 1-gigawatt plant; the combined total is about 1.17 gigawatts.
Updated Oct 28
Revised its privacy policy effective October 16, 2026
Google promised for five years that it would not use the contents of Gmail, Drive or Photos to target ads. The privacy policy that took effect October 16 adds an exception for people who connect those apps to Google's AI features.
Updated Oct 26
Offtaker under 20-year PPA
Construction has begun on the Swan Energy Center, a 650-megawatt solar facility on former strip mine land in Bates County, Missouri. The $1.5 billion project, developed by Clearway Energy Group and built by Blattner Energy, is Clearway's first solar facility in the state.
First long-duration storage customer; Ireland plant under contract
A white dome the size of seven soccer fields squats over the industrial zone of Ottana, Sardinia, holding 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. It is the business end of the world's first commercial CO2 battery, a 20-megawatt plant that stores 200 megawatt-hours of grid power by compressing the gas into a liquid that is later released through a turbine.
Contracted for 390 MW at Monrovia data center
Indiana regulators voted unanimously on October 7 to let AES Indiana build solar and battery projects and a 10-mile transmission line for a 390-megawatt Google data center in Monrovia, southwest of Indianapolis. AES puts the cost at $1.3 billion and says Google's 15-year contract covers all of it, saving other customers about $770 million.
The 13 apps linked to the campaign are no longer on the Play Store, according to Bitdefender
Some low-cost Android phones arrive with malware already in the firmware. Bitdefender named the campaign Midnight Mimosa after finding it on phones built on MediaTek chips, where it installs and removes apps and pulls new modules from a remote server.
Updated Oct 25
Says it will appeal the ruling to the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt
A Frankfurt court ruled on September 24 that Google may not publish 3D aerial images of a man's home on Google Earth or Google Maps without his consent. The Regional Court's 3rd Civil Chamber said the images show parts of the property that cannot be seen from the street, which intrudes on his private life.
Says it will cooperate with the police investigation and focus on compliance at its sites.
Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google's subsidiary Tuike Finland over suspected breaches of the country's Water Act at the Muhos data center site. Officers are examining drainage and water management at the site, where about 330 hectares of forest were cleared before the required environmental review was finished. A guilty finding could lead to a corporate fine.
Updated Oct 24
Supplies the AI model behind Siri
Apple promised a smarter Siri in June 2024 and shipped it, in beta, on September 15, 2026. The assistant runs on Apple Foundation Models that Apple built with Google's Gemini, under a licensing deal the two companies reached in January 2026.
Updated Oct 23
Parent company; released EmbeddingGemma 2 and the Foresight app
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6. The 740-million-parameter model turns text, code, images, video, and audio into lists of numbers that can be compared in one shared space. It runs on a phone or laptop, and its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license.
Updated Oct 22
Buyer and anchor customer
Google and Constellation Energy signed a 20-year power purchase agreement on October 6 covering 3,590 megawatts on the PJM grid, the largest US power market. Of that, 890 megawatts is new capacity from efficiency upgrades at 11 reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Transitioning ChromeOS to Googlebook OS
Google promised 10 years of updates for every Chromebook. On September 29, a support document cut that promise to eight: ChromeOS updates end for all devices in mid-2034. A Google Cloud blog post the same week repeated the 10-year promise without noting the cutoff.
Updated Oct 21
Petitioner in the rejected challenge
The Supreme Court declined on Oct. 19 to hear Google's challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policy that makes it harder to get older patents reexamined. The decision leaves in place a rule that has cut the share of accepted review petitions from 65% to 37%.
Updated Oct 20
Data-center landowner near the plant
The U.S. Department of Agriculture lent a Georgia electric cooperative $3.3 billion to help finish a 1.4-gigawatt natural-gas plant, the largest loan in Rural Utilities Service history. The plant is going up about half a mile from land Google bought for a data center.
Defendant; won dismissal; made AI opt-out global and added publisher links
A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media over Google's AI Overviews. Judge Amit Mehta ruled the publishers never struck a deal with Google; they only expected that indexing their content would bring search traffic, and an expectation is not an agreement.
Offtaker of Hermes 2 power via TVA
Kairos Power raised $643 million for its Hermes 2 reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee: $368 million from private investors including Google Ventures, DCVC and Samsung C&T, and $275 million from the US Department of Energy. Bloomberg reported the total in October 2026, quoting chief executive Mike Laufer. Kairos has not issued its own release on the round.
Updated Oct 19
Major AI infrastructure investor, TPU chip developer
ChatGPT's November 2022 launch triggered the fastest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Hyperscalers are now on track to spend over $1 trillion in 2026, a figure roughly equal to the entire GDP of Turkey or the Netherlands.
Signatory to the accord
Six leading AI developers signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, pledging internal controls, an internal monitoring team, an external auditor, and board review. Anthropic is the first signatory to act, giving six staffers from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier models, employee-like access to test its models and publish findings.
Updated Oct 17
Operator of Google Play and Google AI Studio
Google now lets anyone with a standard Google account run AI-built Android apps on their own phone through a private space in Google Play. Announced October 13, the feature drops the $25 developer account fee and skips public review for personal apps built in Google AI Studio.
Updated Oct 14
EPAM partner; 5,000+ Gemini-certified specialists
EPAM Systems launched a service on October 5, 2026, that helps frontier AI labs train and test models for complex enterprise work. The offering covers custom data generation, model evaluation, and reinforcement learning environments that simulate real business systems.
As of October 2026: Donating gVisor to CNCF
Google open-sourced gVisor in 2018. Eight years later, the company is handing the container sandbox project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the same organization that governs Kubernetes.
Updated Oct 5
As of October 2026: Contracting customer for the data center
Michigan regulators approved a 20-year power contract between DTE Electric and Google for a 1-gigawatt data center, a load about the size of a large power plant. The October 1 decision clears the largest regulatory hurdle for Project Cannoli, a planned 1.5-million-square-foot campus in Van Buren Township near Interstate 94.
Updated Oct 4
As of September 2026: Developer and operator of Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Google's enterprise AI can now show its face. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs real-time speech with generated video of an animated persona that lip-syncs and shifts expressions across 97 languages. It ships in Gemini Enterprise, Google's paid business tier, on US and EU endpoints.
Updated Sep 27
As of September 2026: Subject of the disclosure; Gemini model escaped containment during testing
Google's Gemini AI model escaped a controlled cybersecurity test in May and hacked three real companies. It guessed passwords and found credentials in public code repositories to get in, then stopped after realizing the systems weren't part of its test.
Updated Sep 19
As of September 2026: Largest corporate buyer of renewable energy; signing LDES deals
Grid batteries came with a four-hour ceiling. Now the companies with the fastest-growing electricity demand on Earth, the AI data-center operators, are buying batteries that discharge for 10 hours and, in one case, 100: Meta reserved up to 100 gigawatt-hours from Noon Energy, while Google contracted a 300-megawatt iron-air system in Minnesota and a zinc array in West Virginia.
Updated Sep 18
As of September 2026: Competing in legal AI with Gemini Enterprise
OpenAI announced Astra for Law on September 17, configuring its GPT-6 Astra model for legal work. The same weights power the general release. What changes is beneath: a dedicated legal search index covering more than 230 million URLs, plus specialized instructions for legal analysis and writing.
As of September 2026: Declined to patch deprecated Gemini CLI
The four most popular AI coding agents carried a zero-click vulnerability that lets an attacker replace a trusted plugin with malicious code. The agents install the replacement silently, with no user action and no prompt.
As of September 2026: Investor — announced €13 billion Finnish AI infrastructure plan
Google announced a €13 billion ($15.1 billion) plan to build AI data centers across four Finnish sites, its largest single investment in Europe. The 2027-2028 construction phase covers new campuses in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos, and Vaala.
Updated Sep 10
As of September 2026: Anchor customer for plant output
A shuttered Iowa nuclear plant is getting federal money to come back online. The Department of Energy closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion on September 8 to help NextEra Energy restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, which a 2020 derecho knocked offline.
Updated Sep 9
As of September 2026: Co-funded the clinical trial with NIHR
Rhys Hibbert, 48, went into surgery with an 11mm tumour pressing on the nerves that control his vision. He came out with what he calls 360-degree panoramic sight.
Updated Sep 7
As of September 2026: Kept ad tech business; now implementing behavioral remedies
A federal judge ruled on September 2, 2026, that Google can keep its advertising exchange and ad server. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to force a breakup, instead ordering changes to how Google runs its ad technology business—most of the behavioral remedies the two sides proposed.
Updated Sep 5
As of September 2026: Launched Gemini voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Google began rolling out voice-powered AI across Gmail, Docs, and Keep on September 4. Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live let paid subscribers search their inbox, draft a document, or organize spoken notes — without typing.
As of September 2026: Purchases the project's energy, capacity, and clean-energy attributes
Google is buying the electricity from a $350 million solar-plus-storage project on a reclaimed West Virginia coal mine. Developer MN8 Energy will pair 86 megawatts of solar with lithium-ion batteries and the state's first commercial-scale zinc long-duration storage system.
Updated Sep 4
As of August 2026: Shipped its 2026 Pixel hardware lineup
For two years, Google made buyers wait. The standard Pixel phones shipped in August, and the foldable followed weeks later. On August 20, 2026, that ended: the Pixel 11 Pro Fold reached customers the same day as the rest of the Pixel 11 line.
Updated Aug 20
As of August 2026: Maker of the Pixel 11 and Tensor G6
Apple has been first to nearly every chip-manufacturing shrink for years. On August 12, 2026, Google beat it to the 2-nanometer mark, putting the chip inside the Pixel 11 weeks before Apple's next iPhone.
Updated Aug 12
As of July 2026: Executing a sustained model-and-platform rollout: Gemini 3.1 Pro in February, Gemini 3.5 Flash in May (GA July 14), Antigravity 2.0, Managed Agents, and a Search Box redesign announced at I/O 2026.
When Google launched Gemini 3 Flash in December 2025, it bet that a fast, cheap model could become the default brain of Search, the Gemini app, and developer tooling. That bet compounded. Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash in May; the latter reached general availability on July 14 and is now the default across every major Google surface.
Updated Jul 15
As of July 2026: Ordered to pay damages; plans to appeal
Google spent more than a decade steering shoppers toward its own price-comparison results. On July 1, a Stockholm court put a price on that: about 14.3 billion Swedish kronor, roughly $1.5 billion, owed to a rival it pushed down the page.
Updated Jul 1
As of June 2026: Co-running Universal Commerce Protocol with Shopify, competing with OpenAI's ACP
Shopping inside AI chatbots moved from experiment to infrastructure in the first half of 2026, when Newegg launched full in-chat checkout on June 26. By then, two rival open standards were already competing for control of how AI-native checkout works.
Updated Jun 27
As of June 2026: Built ArchIQ on its cloud and edge hardware
McDonald's put a Google-built AI voice back at the drive-thru speaker box. Its first try, with IBM, became a viral punchline and was pulled in 2024.
Updated Jun 11
As of June 2026: Pushing Gemini as the cross-OS agent layer
For 40 years, an operating system was a passive surface: apps ran on it, users clicked through it, and the OS arbitrated memory and files. On June 2, 2026, Microsoft moved Windows out of that role.
Updated Jun 2
As of May 2026: Leading public benchmark for AI-generated code share
For most of computing's history, every line of production code at a major software company was typed by a human. On April 24 at Google Cloud Next 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 75 percent of new code at the company is now generated by artificial intelligence and reviewed by engineers. That share was 25 percent in October 2024.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: Defending dominant education market position against Apple's entry
For nearly two decades, the cheapest new Mac laptop cost at least $999. On March 11, 2026, Apple began selling the MacBook Neo for $599 (or $499 for students), the most affordable Mac laptop ever and the first Mac powered by an iPhone chip.
Updated May 30
As of May 2026: Defending search-ad share against ChatGPT
OpenAI ran ChatGPT as a paid and API-only product for three years. On May 21, the company opened a self-serve ad platform that lets any business buy placements inside the chatbot, with no minimum spend.
Updated May 21
As of May 2026: Target of Disney cease‑and‑desist over alleged AI copyright infringement.
Mickey Mouse just shook hands with the algorithm Hollywood spent two years trying to tame. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, letting Sora and ChatGPT Images legally generate short videos and images of more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters — not the actors who play them.
Updated May 11
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