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YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently Bloomberg
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Google Pixel 11 review: a great design, fantastic camera features, and some Pro phone specs, but few gen-to-gen hardware improvements and it's expensive at $899 The Verge
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Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans Tom's Guide
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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 The Information
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Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy up to nearly 59M shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B Bloomberg

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab ·

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers

Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg ·

YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently

YouTube will pay creators to post their videos to YouTube before any other service. If creators post to YouTube and Netflix at the same time, they will face consequences.

Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide ·

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans

Head back to school equipped with AI tools for studying, researching and more

Emma Roth / The Verge ·

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

You can share your window with the new Meta AI app, as well as connect it to Google Workspace. … Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot.

Cameron Faulkner / The Verge ·

Google Pixel 11 review: a great design, fantastic camera features, and some Pro phone specs, but few gen-to-gen hardware improvements and it's expensive at $899

It'd be easy to overlook the Pixel 11. Want the best cameras? The Pixel 11 Pro is your answer. Want the best bargain?

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg ·

Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy up to nearly 59M shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B

Marvell Technology Inc. has agreed to give Alphabet Inc.'s Google rights to buy as much as $12.2 billion of its shares in exchange for purchasing chips.

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information ·

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

Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire …

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times ·

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

Republicans previously sued Google claiming its spam filter was biased, but the case was dismissed.

Andy Greenberg / Wired ·

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

Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?

Jay Peters / The Verge ·

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android

Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.

Madeleine Cuff / New Scientist ·

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

Operation Blue Skies is the world's first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace …

Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia ·

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

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Emma Roth / The Verge ·

YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos

By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.

James Nani / Bloomberg Law ·

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

Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records …

Wall Street Journal ·

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their ~$600B in reported capex

Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren't shown on companies' balance sheets

Fred Lambert / Electrek ·

Waymo receives approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand across 18 counties, including Sacramento and San Diego

Waymo says California regulators have signed off on the biggest expansion of its robotaxi service yet, covering 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego.

Emma Roth / The Verge ·

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

Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal ·

In Q2, "other income", mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits

Gains on investments in companies like Anthropic are boosting earnings at some of the biggest technology companies

Sean Hollister / The Verge ·

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

Judge Donato was not having Google's 'anticompetitive friction.'

Tulsee Doshi / 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

Our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

Wall Street Journal ·

Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO

Demis Hassabis discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Scott Bessent

Business Insider ·

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

Jeff Dean spent 27 years helping build Google. Now, investors could be betting $1 billion that he can build the next big thing in AI outside it.

Made by Google on YouTube ·

A recording of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah

Tune in to see something special. Watch the Made by Google live show on August 12 at 6 PM ET.

Kenrick Cai / Reuters ·

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

Google co-founder Sergey Brin in recent months has urged key AI staff to go all in on the company's Gemini model as parent Alphabet …

David Imel / The Verge ·

Google's Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a total rethink of how the camera captures and styles an image, as users seek "more authentic or traditional" photos

If you look at a photo taken by a smartphone today, it's hard to find much that's technically wrong. Faces are bright and visible.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·

Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first for ASL to English text

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across …

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·

Google introduces an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, an accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit devices

Alphabet Inc.'s Google Inc. is bringing a new set of health features to its wearables, including one that tracks insulin resistance over time …

Damien Wilde / 9to5Google ·

Google is cutting the Google One AI Pro trial bundled with the Pixel 11 Pro and other handsets from 12 to six months and removes the free trial for the Pixel 11

With the launch of the Pixel 9, Google offered fairly extensive 12-month free trials of the Google One AI Pro plan …

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge ·

Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with the Pixel 6 and up

The Quick Share update makes it easier to share contact info and files between Pixel devices, and soon, Samsung phones.

Dominic Preston / The Verge ·

Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11, with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2's pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more

The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding. … More than two years after launching its own device-tracking network …

Wall Street Journal ·

The NYC Council sent letters to Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini Titan to investigate alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors

Probe targets the marketing practices of four prediction markets with operations in the city

Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai ·

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark

1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It's our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the entire Gemini team, and thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with us - [image]

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·

Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation

As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch ·

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1

YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.

Emmy Martin / New York Times ·

As Waymo expands its fleet from 700 in 2025 to nearly 4,000 now, recalls and edge-case failures like flooded roadways and a San Francisco power outage mount

Waymo driverless cars are in San Francisco and 14 other metropolitan areas, including Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Tampa.Jason Henry for The New York Times

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, expanding support beyond PayPal and Cash App

Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content.

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch ·

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?

Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum ·

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity

On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon's Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind.

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge ·

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027

Microsoft's plan for Edge means that uBlock Origin users are losing one of their browser options.

SemiAnalysis ·

Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute

GCP YoY rev growth >100%, DeepMind's long term failure is Google Cloud's short term gain

Bloomberg ·

Alphabet raises $25B in an investment-grade bond sale; sources say it attracted ~$115B of peak demand and that Alphabet plans to issue US debt twice per year

Alphabet Inc. sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds after generous yield payouts helped secure one of the year's largest order books for AI-related debt.

Reuters ·

Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and "meticulous" tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month

Ransom-seeking hackers who use phone calls to compromise their victims targeted dozens of prominent U.S. financial institutions …

Victoria Turk / Wired ·

Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data.

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold

For years, Demis Hassabis was the only executive to oversee a US technology giant's artificial intelligence development from outside the country.

Andrew Webster / The Verge ·

Rockstar says it will show an "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET

The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …

Jada Jones / ZDNET ·

Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching

ZDNET's key takeaways

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC ·

Some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic

Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent …

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times ·

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 2026, up from $1B in Q1 2025, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for next-gen AI agents

OpenAI and Google invest heavily in voice systems as main way to interact with a new generation of AI agents.

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg ·

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

Alphabet Inc.'s Google faces a class action lawsuit over alleged abuse of its dominance after an antitrust tribunal allowed a claim …

Abner Li / 9to5Google ·

Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant will remain on connected cars

As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android.

Leo Marchandon / Reuters ·

Europe's established tech groups SAP, Capgemini, Sopra Steria, and OVHcloud report stronger AI demand, as enterprises shift from experimentation to deployment

The AI boom was widely expected to favour the new companies building the models. Recent earnings suggest it is some of Europe's biggest …

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters ·

The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment "steering" rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it "already made the changes"

Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users …

Matt Burgess / Wired ·

Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks

Europe's pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.

New York Times ·

Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ Android users ahead of Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes, providing seconds or up to two minutes of prior notice

Jose Flores was driving with his family to see "Toy Story 5" on Wednesday in Caracas, Venezuela, when a loud earthquake alert went off on his wife's Google Android phone.

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC ·

Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue

As the New York Knicks clinched their first championship in 53 years and the NBA notched its highest Finals series ratings since 1998 …

Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg ·

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its "Xoogler" alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is backing a new incubator for former employees building artificial intelligence startups …

Kerry Flynn / Axios ·

Marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes

AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in Series E funding at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the financing.

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal ·

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment

Search giant is putting about $75 million into the film company as part of an artificial-intelligence research partnership

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