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1. Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

   The Guardian AI · 2026-08-08

   Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When <a href="

2. How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

   WIRED · 2026-08-08

   New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

3. Gemini Spark now has Chrome web-browsing capabilities

   Engadget · 2026-08-03

   Google's AI assistant can "use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle tedious web errands."

4. How Google used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs - in 60 days

   ZDNet · 2026-08-03

   With 3.5 billion active users to protect, Google is relying on Gemini to find Chrome security bugs fast - and before attackers do.

5. LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

   Last Week in AI · 2026-08-03

   Anthropic releases Opus 5 promising Fable 5-like capabilities, Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models, and more!

6. ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio

   The Decoder · 2026-08-01

   ByteDance just shipped Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that produces video and audio together in one go.

7. As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

   Ars Technica · 2026-08-01

   Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

8. Google Rolls Back Earth AI Tool Over Concern About Fake Images

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-31

   Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Friday that it will roll back its new AI image generation feature in Google Earth because some people were using it to create altered satellite

9. Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive

   Ars Technica · 2026-07-31

   Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

10. Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics

    Ars Technica · 2026-07-31

    “What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

11. Google Pulls Earth’s AI Image Tool a Day After Launch

    Unite.AI · 2026-07-31

    Google removed the AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, 2026, about a day after switching it on for every user of the browser version.

12. Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-31

    A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

13. Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

    The Verge · 2026-07-31

    Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI.

14. Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth

    Engadget · 2026-07-31

    People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.

15. Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids

    The Decoder · 2026-07-31

    Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything from tabletop robots to full-body humanoids.

16. Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

    The Verge · 2026-07-31

    A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature

17. Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

    Hacker News · 2026-07-31

    Google's security team patched a significantly higher volume of Chrome vulnerabilities in June, attributing a substantial portion of this increase to AI-powered tools.

18. Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-30

    Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

19. Reddit's CEO sure seems frustrated with Google's AI overviews

    Engadget · 2026-07-30

    Amid rumors of Google breakup, Huffman says "people don't want a summary of reddit, they want reddit."

20. Banks Line Up $15 Billion of Debt for Anthropic With Google Aid

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to line up $15 billion of debt for an Anthropic PBC data-center project in Texas, backstopped by Alphabet Inc.’s Google

21. Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-30

    As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products

22. Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety

    Ars Technica · 2026-07-30

    Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.

23. Google's new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for 'intelligent whole-body control'

    Engadget · 2026-07-30

    The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.

24. Google DeepMind Ships Three Physical AI Models For Whole Body Control, Dexterity And Multi Robot Collaboration

    MarkTechPost · 2026-07-30

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots.

25. Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body

    The Verge · 2026-07-30

    Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's

26. Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting

    WIRED · 2026-07-30

    The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

27. Google Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Teamwork

    Unite.AI · 2026-07-30

    Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model built to serve as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles the motors.

28. Google Unveils Gemini AI for Robots Struggling With Dexterity

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind unveiled a new artificial intelligence model for robots that allows humanoid machines to coordinate movements across their entire bodies

29. Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World

    WIRED · 2026-07-30

    The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

30. Oracle (ORCL) Stock Jumps as Google Gemini AI Partnership Expands

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Oracle Corp. gained more than 8% after saying it would expand a partnership with Google Cloud to bring Gemini artificial intelligence tools to its business customers.

31. Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might

    The Decoder · 2026-07-30

    Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't.

32. Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth

    Engadget · 2026-07-30

    Google Earth users can "visualize the past" via AI-created pictures.

33. Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-29

    At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

34. Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key

    Engadget · 2026-07-29

    Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.

35. Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic

    The Decoder · 2026-07-29

    The majority of the researchers behind AlphaFold are now working on other projects, and almost a quarter have left Google Deepmind altogether.

36. GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

    The Decoder · 2026-07-29

    OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API.

37. Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

    Ars Technica · 2026-07-29

    Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

38. Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

    Engadget · 2026-07-29

    DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

39. Google AI Overviews become more common in search

    AI News · 2026-07-29

    Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier

40. How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-28

    Some ‘private’ chats and docs are showing up on search engines. Here’s how to protect yours Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some