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Google Opens Gemini in Chrome to All U.S. Android Users and Extends Auto Browse to Mobile

Google expanded Gemini in Chrome to all Android users across the United States on August 18, 2026. The update introduces the browser's built-in AI assistant to mobile handsets and extends "auto browse," Google's agentic web automation feature, to smartphones for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. The Android rollout follows the initial launch of Gemini in Chrome for desktop environments in September 2025. On mobile devices, the assistant provides on-page article summaries, contextual answe

Google paid $10M at auction for Spirit Airlines data to train AI

Google says AI helped build the first known zero-day exploit

Google now lets users strip the visible watermark from its AI images, video, and audio

Google said Friday it will let users remove the visible watermark from its AI-generated images, video, and audio. The company said turning off the visible mark does not affect the invisible SynthID watermark or the C2PA metadata used to identify an AI-generated file. Josh Woodward, Google's vice president for Gemini, announced the change in a post on X. The invisible SynthID signal and the C2PA provenance data stay in place, so machines can still tell a file was generated even after the visible

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, halves the cost of its coding workhorse

Google's new Flash model scores higher on coding benchmarks and costs half its standard rate, at least through the end of 2026.

Gemini is quietly losing ground to ChatGPT and Claude

Three datasets now show Google's Gemini losing users to ChatGPT and Claude.

Gemini crosses 1 billion monthly active users, Pichai says

Google Retrofits Gemma 4 Into a Diffusion Model, No Retraining From Scratch

Google folds DeepMind into the main business as Hassabis signals an exit

Google DeepMind is losing the independent status it held since the lab's founding, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the company in the coming months, according to multiple reports. A former Google manager told the Guardian that the 'era of DeepMind as an independent actor is over,' and a current DeepMind employee now describes the lab as 'just another subdivision' of Google. Day-to-day operations are shifting to AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu from the United States, but he is not taking th

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

Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Co-Found Discovery Loop

Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean departs after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day DeepMind leadership.

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

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

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