“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along…
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Requiring Google to share data and system access with competitors may come with some security risks, but Google undeniably has a vested interest in maintaining its market position. Both of those things can be true, but is one maybe a little more true than the other? That’s the issue with which the European Commission must grapple. The EU is undertaking this effort under the auspices of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which has designated Google, Meta, Amazon, and other giant tech firms as “gatekeepers” that are subject to additional regulation. Google has openly opposed the DMA, calling for the
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Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
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1w agoGoogle kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more
…Now, it only serves Google—maybe the headstone is a bit premature. Like many Google products, Tenor started as an independent company. Google came along and bought Tenor in 2018, and it…
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Google has been chasing real-time translation for years, which it says has been one of its “pioneering machine learning experiments.” We’ve seen numerous demos on stage at Google events in…
Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift . As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the…
Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
…The company’s latest sustainability report acknowledges that Google’s total electricity usage has increased by more than 250 percent since 2019, which the company attributed to ongoing growth in Google Cloud…
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
…Google worked with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to block many of these malicious text messages, and Google notes that its on-device scam detection in Google Messages probably helped reduce…
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
…Google’s AI roadmap Google also has some news on upcoming AI models. First up will be a limited release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. This is Google’s first LLM…
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
…It’s available today across the Google ecosystem, creating images in a fraction of the time it takes Google’s beefier models . The new model is part of the Gemini 3.1…
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
…In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyone over to Gemini. Google told us it…
Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind
…The Android coding performance gap for Google’s models is a problem as the company shifts many of its projects toward agentic development. Obviously, Google would prefer that Android developers use Google…