Google News & Updates
Last updated August 27, 2026
Google teams up with Walmart Connect so advertisers can measure how their YouTube and display ads drive sales inside Walmart
Google sues a Chinese cybercrime ring that weaponized its Gemini AI to build 9,000 fake sites and send millions of scam texts
Google will appeal a German court ruling that finds it legally liable for false claims in its AI Overviews summaries
Google wins an Ohio appeals ruling that its search results are editorial speech, not a regulated common carrier
Google cuts its AI Plus subscription to $4.99 a month and doubles the storage, bringing the AI price war to US consumers
Google zero-click searches climb to 68% in early 2026 as AI Overviews keep more users from leaving the platform
xAI faces a class action accusing its Grok chatbot of sharing user queries with Google, Meta, and TikTok without consent
Independent musicians sue Google over claims it used their YouTube uploads to train its Lyria AI music model
Meta and Google lose their bid for a new trial in a youth social media addiction case after a $6M jury verdict
Google is found liable for false statements in its AI Overviews by a German court, a first that could ripple across AI search
Google adds Gemini tools for small businesses that connect to Google Business Profile and surface proactive insights
Google names Paris Hilton its first “Icon in Residence” to push vibe coding to women and everyday users
Anthropic lands a $35B private credit deal from Apollo and Blackstone, one of the largest ever, to buy Google’s AI chips
Apple’s AI upgrade leans on Google’s Gemini, chips, and cloud to power the new Siri, deepening its reliance on a rival
Google agrees to a $68M settlement over claims its Assistant recorded users without the “Hey Google” wake word
Google launches Search Profiles for creators and publishers to “shape their presence” in search
#281 – Amazon Visual Search, Google Search Profiles, & Shopify doesn’t want AI regulation
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models at Build, claiming they beat Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Nano Banana
Google engineers are mocking the company’s AI internally with anti-AI memes even as CEO Sundar Pichai touts AI-written code
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