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Google says it is appealing the United States v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and is asking the court to stay some of the appeals during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are Google’s Geminis winning?, Drama of thinking machines, The potential of Claude Cowork The Big…

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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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Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on search tools, part of a push to add business customers, after Comet launches on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners Conversations with people I admire about things that really…

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U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 5, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Device Wars heats up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix acquires Warner Brothers The Big Technology Podcast…

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Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on global models, scaling the entire Google search index to Gemini, the AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Google’s Gemini 3 is here: a special first look The future is already here. Each week,…

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Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100 million Series A at a $740 million valuation (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 12, 2025

Tom Dotan / Newcomer: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search…

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Zurich-based DeepJudge, which creates custom search indexes for law firms that connect to AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41 million Series A at a $300 million valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 9, 2025

Alicia Park / Forbes: Zurich-based DeepJudge, which creates custom search indexes for law firms that connect to AI tools like…

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Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting AI mode of search, but chooses not to include a label indicating it was made with Veo 3 and other tools (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 31, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Crackdown on Character.AI’s Teen Chatbots + Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Groks + 48 Hours Without AI The…

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Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search AI Mode and Google Lens on Android in the US for those with an activated Search Lab account (Abner Li/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 12, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Inside Google’s AI Turnaround: The Rise of AI Mode, the Strategy Behind AI Previews, and Their…

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Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-Er 1.5, allowing robots to perform tasks in several steps such as laundromat sorting, including using web search (Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 25, 2025

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial time:: Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-Er 1.5, allowing robots to do tasks in…

Uyghur human rights activist condemns death sentences in Bangkok attack – Radio Free Asia

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Paramount-WBD Merger Gets DOJ Approval

Elon Musk becomes world’s first billionaire as SpaceX begins commercial operations

Ad Spending for 2026 Elections Expected to Hit Record: AdImpact

SpaceX millionaires set to spend on luxury homes, watches and travel

How family offices are investing in the final frontier beyond SpaceX

American households are paying a $3,100 Trump tax and they don’t know it

Trump has lied dozens of times about a deal with Iran that isn’t even a deal.

White House refuses to say why Trump is being examined by dozens of experts

House Republicans continue to fail to show up, putting Democrats in the majority

Democrats have all the information they need to end Trump and Vance with a real investigation into Epstein

Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage than K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Sources detail frustration within Meta’s applied AI team, formed in March to support superintelligence labs, over menial projects, ‘overwhelming’ work, and more (Wired)

Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9 billion (Bloomberg)

SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq at $150, after a price of $135, making Elon Musk the world’s first billionaire; SPCX is up about 30% intraday, for a market cap of around $2.3 billion (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Browsing: search

Google says it is appealing the United States v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and is asking the court to stay some of the appeals during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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)

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on search tools, part of a push to add business customers, after Comet launches on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on global models, scaling the entire Google search index to Gemini, the AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100 million Series A at a $740 million valuation (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

Zurich-based DeepJudge, which creates custom search indexes for law firms that connect to AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41 million Series A at a $300 million valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)

Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting AI mode of search, but chooses not to include a label indicating it was made with Veo 3 and other tools (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search AI Mode and Google Lens on Android in the US for those with an activated Search Lab account (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-Er 1.5, allowing robots to perform tasks in several steps such as laundromat sorting, including using web search (Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times)