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More than 20 European news publishers file suit seeking more than 640 million euros from Google following an EU ruling that allows anyone harmed by Google’s advertising market abuses to seek damages (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Hot IPO Summer + What is AI doing to mathematics? + HatGPT The future is already…

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Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google’s place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, AI agents, AI security, TPUs, and more. (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is OpenAI Ready to IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI The…

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Source: Anthropic plans to spend around $200 billion on Google’s cloud and chips over five years, representing more than 40% of the "order book" Google disclosed last week (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 5, 2026

The information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend around $200 billion on Google’s cloud and chips over five years, representing more…

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Analysts and researchers say Google’s TurboQuant compression algorithm intended to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to increase demand for memory chips than reduce it (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 12, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice…

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Reddit overtakes TikTok as the fourth most visited social media service in the UK, likely due to changes to Google’s search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Michael Savage / The guardian: Reddit overtakes TikTok as the fourth most visited social media service in the UK, likely…

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Google’s Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images can create non-consensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit banned r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How brands stay visible when AI decides | James Cadwallader, CEO Deep Grit explores what it takes…

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Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google’s and reader donations are important. "don’t subsidize OpenAI which costs us a ton of money" (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Reuters: Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google’s and that reader donations…

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Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as it moves to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Jess Weatherbed / The edge: Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as…

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Italy is investigating Microsoft 365 price hikes, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were built into the service (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

Despite the ‘DeepMind mafia’ drawing billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis’ former lieutenants are building a UK border AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees now use Codex, up from around 40% in August 2025; Codex usage by non-developers increased 137-fold for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

How the development of AI in the United States is driving up prices for electricity, software and more; in survey, 81% of economists say it will increase inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

Apple says it removed VK apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were expelled without warning and were never subject to U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

Browsing: Googles

More than 20 European news publishers file suit seeking more than 640 million euros from Google following an EU ruling that allows anyone harmed by Google’s advertising market abuses to seek damages (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google’s place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, AI agents, AI security, TPUs, and more. (New York Times)

Source: Anthropic plans to spend around $200 billion on Google’s cloud and chips over five years, representing more than 40% of the "order book" Google disclosed last week (The Information)

Analysts and researchers say Google’s TurboQuant compression algorithm intended to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to increase demand for memory chips than reduce it (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Reddit overtakes TikTok as the fourth most visited social media service in the UK, likely due to changes to Google’s search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)

Google’s Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images can create non-consensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit banned r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google’s and reader donations are important. "don’t subsidize OpenAI which costs us a ton of money" (Reuters)

Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as it moves to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)