US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on September 2 that Google must stop self-preferencing in digital ad auctions but declined the Justice Department’s request to force a divestiture of the company’s core ad exchange.
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Marvell Grants Google a $12.2 Billion Stake Option in Custom AI Chip Alliance
Marvell Technology issued Google warrants to buy 58.97 million shares at $206.58 each, tied to a chip partnership covering AI inference accelerators and networking components that could yield $120 billion through 2033.
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Google Gemini Crosses One Billion Monthly Users
Sundar Pichai announced on August 11 that the Gemini app has passed one billion monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google’s 28-year history.
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Google Launches Pixel 11 With 120x Zoom and AI Sign Language Transcription
Google unveiled Pixel 11 with 120x Super Res Zoom, AI sign language transcription via DeepMind, and Gemini Intelligence automating tasks across more than 40 apps.
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Google’s $1.5 Billion Mechanize Bid Follows Its Playbook to Skirt Antitrust
Google is in talks to pay $1.5 billion to license AI startup Mechanize’s coding-agent benchmarks and hire its team, using a structure designed to sidestep antitrust review of outright acquisitions.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro Misses Third Deadline, Alphabet Loses $200 Billion in a Day
Bloomberg reported on July 16 that Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind internal targets due to coding failures, wiping roughly $200 billion from Alphabet’s market cap in a single session.
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Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for a ground-up architectural rebuild
Google DeepMind abandoned the Gemini 2.5 Pro base architecture and pushed the 3.5 Pro launch to July 17, opting for a complete rebuild to close performance gaps in mathematical reasoning and SVG generation before competing releases from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Europe’s top court upholds 4.1 billion euro Android antitrust fine against Google
The ECJ upheld a 4.1 billion euro fine against Alphabet on 5 July in a final ruling on Google’s anticompetitive Android app-bundling and search-default practices in Europe.
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Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, left Google on June 18 for OpenAI less than two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back.
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German court declares Google liable for false AI Overview claims
Munich’s Regional Court found Google directly liable for false AI Overview statements, ruling the summaries are Google’s own speech and not protected search-result listings.