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  • Google Sets September 4 Deadline for Assistant Shutdown as Gemini Takes Over

    Google will begin removing Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, headphones, and Android Auto vehicles starting September 4, 2026. The company emailed existing users on August 4 confirming the timeline, with the rollout expected to take several weeks to reach all devices. Once removed, users will not be able to switch back to Assistant. Gemini, Google's AI-powered replacement, is now the default assistant experience on Android. The transition had been planned since at

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  • Google Offloads $35 Billion in Anthropic Chip Risk via SPV Structure

    Google has assembled one of the largest infrastructure financing programs in history to supply Anthropic with its proprietary AI chips while keeping the hardware off everyone's balance sheets, according to Financial Times reporting. The arrangement involves Google, Broadcom, Morgan Stanley, Apollo, Blackstone, and several cryptocurrency mining companies in a chain of deals designed to sidestep the balance-sheet constraints that would otherwise make the transaction impossible. How the st

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  • Google Brings AI Model Routing to API Gateway

    Google Cloud has added managed AI model routing to API Gateway, giving developers one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for models hosted through Vertex AI Model Garden. The feature is now in public preview and can direct requests to Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-family models without requiring teams to operate a separate proxy service, according to Google's announcement. Routing moves into the gateway Developers define virtual model names and backend targets inside an OpenAPI 3.x s

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  • Google AI Overviews now appear in 43 percent of US searches

    Google's AI-generated summaries now appear in 43 percent of US search results, up from 15 percent a year earlier, according to Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. The figure tracks the share of US searches displaying AI Overviews, the generated summaries that appear at the top of conventional Google results. Google also operates AI Mode, a separate conversational interface for longer queries and follow-up prompts, which uses a technique called query fan-out to split questions into

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