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Google ships Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro FoldGoogle's latest hardware push lands the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold into a market where foldables and wearables remain a rounding error next to Apple's iPhone volumes. The bigger point is s…ChatGPT and Gemini both cross 1 billion usersTwo chatbots hitting a billion users each turns AI assistants from a novelty into infrastructure most of the connected world now touches weekly.A rival app store just walked back into Google Play after 12 yearsAptoide Games is now installable directly through Google Play in the US, the first competing Android marketplace to get that access since Google removed the company from Play in 2014, as TechCrunch…Hassabis moves to chairman as Jeff Dean walks out the doorGoogle just lost the executive who built its brain and is about to watch the researcher who wired its infrastructure walk to a rival startup. Demis Hassabis stepping up to chair DeepMind reads as p…Waymo drops the waitlist in Dallas, opens robotaxis to everyoneWaymo removing the waitlist in Dallas means it's confident enough in fleet reliability and regulatory standing to serve any rider who opens the app, not just vetted early adopters. Dallas becomes a…Microsoft added more value in a day than most stock markets holdA single-day market cap gain of this scale means Microsoft's Azure and Copilot numbers landed well ahead of whatever Wall Street had modelled, and investors are pricing in years of AI monetisation …Google's AI burn hits $6bn a quarter, and Wall Street is now repackaging the debtAlphabet is spending faster than it can justify on an earnings call, and the banks financing the arms race are already looking to offload the risk. Google burned roughly $6bn in cash last quarter a…Google folds NotebookLM into the Gemini brandKilling a well-loved standalone name to fold it into Gemini is a bet that brand consolidation matters more than the loyalty NotebookLM built as a scrappy research tool. The rename to Gemini Noteboo…Hassabis wants an AI standards body before he loses control of the argumentA DeepMind chief calling for independent testing of frontier models is a bet that industry-led oversight beats whatever Washington or Brussels eventually imposes unilaterally. Google, OpenAI and An…Google's image search rebuild is a defensive move against AI searchTwenty-five years after launching image search, Google is rebuilding it with heavier AI integration precisely as Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Meta's own AI tools chip away at the query volume Goo…Google has set August 12 for the Pixel 11 launch, with price increases expected. The Android premium play is being tested.Google's Pixel 11 launch date is confirmed for August 12, and the signal accompanying it is that pricing will rise. Google has been repositioning Pixel as a premium hardware line anchored to its Ge…Google releases Nano Banana 2 Lite: cheaper image generation, real competitive pressureGoogle has released Nano Banana 2 Lite, described as its fastest and cheapest image generation model to date, pushing inference costs down further in a market where Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and O…Google Finance finally lands on Android, with iOS promised before year-endGoogle has released a standalone Finance app for Android after years of routing users through the mobile web or Search. An iOS version is confirmed for later in 2026, putting it in direct competiti…Google forced to give UK publishers AI opt-outThe Competition and Markets Authority has imposed a binding requirement forcing Google to let UK publishers opt out of AI Overviews and model training while remaining in traditional search results.…Google raises $85bn to fund AI spending spreeAlphabet has launched its first primary equity offering in over 20 years, targeting $85 billion through new Class C shares to fund aggressive AI infrastructure investment. The raise reflects a stra…Google and Blackstone target private equity for AI omnibus dealsGoogle is negotiating omnibus licensing agreements with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies access to Gemini AI models, treating private equity as a distribution channel for …AI capex binge overwhelms bond markets, pushes Alphabet overseasWall Street's AI financing machine is hitting capacity constraints. Alphabet's $17 billion bond sale was still being priced when the company started hawking additional debt, forcing underwriters to…Google courts Blackstone and KKR for portfolio-wide AI dealsGoogle is negotiating omnibus agreements with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to distribute AI models across their portfolio companies, turning private equity into the most powerful distribution channel f…Google names King's Cross AI hub after DeepMind's breakthrough Go movePlatform 37 references Move 37, the pivotal AlphaGo play that stunned the Go world in 2016 and marked AI's leap beyond human intuition. Google DeepMind and Google teams move into the landmark build…OpenAI launches cost-per-click ads this weekOpenAI will start selling ads inside ChatGPT responses within days, marking its first serious revenue diversification beyond subscriptions. The move puts it in direct competition with Google's $307…Anthropic signs $21bn deal for one million Google TPU chipsAnthropic committed $21 billion to Broadcom for nearly one million Google-designed TPU v7p AI chips, delivered as fully assembled rack systems for direct data center deployment. The deal bypasses G…