Google News & Updates
Last updated August 27, 2026
Google is ordered to fix Play Store search and install buttons so rival Android app stores are as easy to add as any app
Alibaba says its Qwen open-weight models passed 3B downloads in six months, far ahead of Google’s and Meta’s 2026 totals
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 3.5 Pro has missed three release dates as engineers describe power shifting from London to Mountain View
Google DeepMind’s AGI safety team warns job applicants that Google’s own screening system may wrongly reject their resumes
Discovery Loop, the AI company Jeff Dean left Google to start last week, is in talks to raise $1B at a valuation near $10B
Google search results falsely say OpenAI CEO Sam Altman died, and Google blames vandalism of public information sources
Google Play begins hosting rival storefronts with Aptoide, which gets access to the full 1.9M-app catalog for $15k up front
Google’s AI Overviews attribute other companies’ complaints to small businesses, who pay for ads against their own bad press
Google Play starts accepting Venmo for apps, games, subscriptions, and creator tips, adding a second PayPal-owned wallet in the US
Google expands Ask Advisor across Ads and Analytics with homepage AI summaries and dashboards built from plain-text prompts
Google faces a French antitrust complaint over AI Overviews from a press alliance citing a 33% to 38% publisher traffic drop
Google’s 2022 Wordcraft study resurfaces on Bluesky, and the 13 authors who tested it face boycott calls four years later
Google tests a homepage for signed-out users that swaps the Search button for Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm
Google’s Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users, its fastest-growing product ever, three months behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Google adds food ordering, hotel booking, and ticket purchasing to its Ask Maps tool
Google’s AI produced an unannounced character name that Operation Octo’s developer says existed only inside a private Google Doc
Parents of four children who died by suicide sue Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap in Delaware over addictive platform design
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
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