Google News & Updates
Last updated August 8, 2026
Google is in talks to pay about $1.5B to license Mechanize technology and hire the AI startup’s model evaluation staff
Google faces a UK class action covering about 880,000 businesses after the Competition Appeal Tribunal certifies the claim
Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude alongside AWS, Google, and Nvidia
Google Maps adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and event ticket search to its Gemini-powered Ask Maps assistant
Google and Meta move to dismiss voice actors’ AI training suits, saying the complaints never allege their voices were used
The White House calls OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic staff in Tuesday to review a finished framework for voluntary model reviews
Teads sues Google over Last Look and Project Bernanke auction practices it says still run after Google said it retired them
Public Knowledge asks the appeals court to force a Chrome divestiture and ban Google’s search payments to Apple and Mozilla
Google redesigns Android voice search so spoken queries can route into AI Mode or Search Live rather than a standard search
Claude convos made their way into Google search results, again
Google faces a class action alleging its ad technology sent Americans’ sensitive data to Temu, Baidu, and other Chinese firms
Reddit’s DMCA case against SerpApi and Perplexity survives dismissal weeks after a judge threw out Google’s nearly identical suit
Scale AI hires Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as its new CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left the company for Meta
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Google’s AI Overviews has yet to pay off for publishers as Reddit’s search traffic declines
OpenAI is closing in on 1 billion weekly active ChatGPT users, seven months behind schedule, as Gemini and Claude take share
Google’s AI Mode shows about 95% fewer product listings than standard search on identical shopping queries, per Productrise
Google tests a Chrome protocol that verifies email ownership at signup without sending a one-time code or a magic link
Google surfaces Target CPA and Target ROAS as standalone Smart Bidding options in an unannounced campaign setup change
Google launches Ask Google Pay, a Gemini chatbot that breaks down UPI spending in 10 Indian languages, alongside an SBI card
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