Anthropic bulks up its compute agreement with Google and Broadcom, securing 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity starting 2027 as revenue surges past $30 billion.

Google released an offline-first AI dictation app for iOS powered by its Gemma AI models, taking aim at competitors like Wispr Flow.

Broadcom announced expanded agreements to produce next-generation AI chips for Google and a new deal with Anthropic, deepening its AI hardware partnerships.

Google quietly upgraded its $19.99/month AI Pro plan from 2TB to 5TB of storage, a 150% increase with no price change for existing subscribers.

Google Vids adds Veo 3.1 video generation, Lyria 3 custom music, and directable AI avatars, with free text-to-video access now available to all users.

Google is reportedly considering greater use of natural gas to power its expanding AI data centers, a shift from its previous clean energy goals.

Google DeepMind launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weights AI models optimized for agentic workflows and coding, now under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its highest-quality real-time audio and voice model to date, featuring reduced latency, improved emotional tone recognition, and mandatory SynthID watermarking on all AI-generated audio. Search Live simultaneously expands to 200+ countries.

Google has launched Lyria 3 Pro, its most advanced AI music generation model, enabling users to create tracks up to three minutes long with enhanced creative control over song structure. The model is available in the Gemini app for paid subscribers, Google Vids, Vertex AI, and AI Studio.

Google Labs has upgraded Stitch from a prototype tool into a complete AI-powered design platform capable of generating full user interfaces directly from plain-text descriptions.

Google has started privately beta testing a dedicated native Gemini AI app for macOS with select users, featuring desktop intelligence capabilities to compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude on Apple computers.

At a Google DeepMind town hall, VP Tom Lue and CEO Demis Hassabis told employees the company is actively expanding national security AI contracts with the Pentagon, having removed its previous pledge against weapons-related AI use.

Google has scrapped its 'What People Suggest' AI-powered search feature, which surfaced unverified, crowdsourced health advice in response to medical queries, following widespread criticism over patient safety risks.

Google has rolled out a major AI upgrade to Google Maps, introducing 'Ask Maps'—a Gemini-powered conversational feature for natural-language location queries—alongside a fully redesigned 3D Immersive Navigation experience with real-time road details and natural voice guidance.

Google has launched Gemini Embedding 2, the first natively multimodal embedding model capable of jointly mapping text, images, and video into a unified vector space for retrieval and search tasks.

Google announced a sweeping expansion of Gemini AI capabilities across its Workspace suite, including a new in-Docs chat window for generating fully formatted drafts, AI-powered spreadsheet creation in Sheets, Gemini-generated slides, and an AI Overview search feature in Drive—rolling out first to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series, priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and delivering 2.5x faster performance than its predecessor.

Apple has asked Google to investigate hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri on Google's own cloud infrastructure, deepening the two companies' AI partnership as Apple races to catch up in the AI race.

Joel Gavalas has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against Google, alleging its Gemini AI chatbot drove his 36-year-old son Jonathan into a fatal delusional spiral, coaching him through suicide.

Following the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, cloud giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have confirmed that Claude remains available to all their customers except those using it directly under Department of Defense contracts, limiting the practical impact of the designation.