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Google integriert KI in Translate und erweitert Lerntool
Google will Übersetzungen mit Gemini in Translate verbessern. Ferner bringt Google Live-Übersetzungen für alle Kopfhörer und das Lerntool nach Deutschland.
h…

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.

google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-nukes-224-android-malware-apps-behind-massive-ad-fraud-campaign/

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign
A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day.

"Google said it would partner with Shell to help it manage its renewable energy supply in the UK."
A partnership signed in Hades.
"The Guardian reported on Monday that a new Google datacentre in Essex was expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year."
Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit | Google | The Guardian

As a non-programmer/coder, i played around with https://jules.google.com/ , connected it with my github account, let it write some simple code for me, it worked the first time, improved it a bit etc. Actually good to experience in practice this "vibe coding" and Jules is very friendly. I even used the (fre…

Google-Mutter Alphabet ist erstmals 3 Billionen US-Dollar wert
Die Aktie des Google-Mutterkonzerns hat ein neues Rekordhoch erreicht – der US-Konzern durchbricht die Schallmauer von drei Billionen US-Dollar.
…

"Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"
#Google #Climate #ClimateChange #Technology

Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/google-deepmind-clean-energy-fusion

Exclusive: Google DeepMind partners with fusion startup
Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to speed up the development of clean energy.

For those out of the Loop:
#Google, #Meta, Microsoft, any of the tech companies who provide "portals" to news and content, scrape this content and shove it in a feed that they have control over (obstensibly based on your "habits" and "preferences"). The portal keeps the $ad.revenue$ th…

Droidian is potentially the best Linux mobile operating system for on-boarding newcomers into the field.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-droidian-on-a-google-pixel-3axl-phone/
@…

google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

«The raging mob of peasants is told to put away their torches and pitchforks, and to be reasonable, and to let the adults in the room get on with governance. As the saying goes, "The purpose of a system is what it does", and this system seems to overwhelmingly favour Google at the expense of all those unruly peasants»
Shouldn't we trust Google and other pertinent questions - lolnope
https://cryptography.dog/blog/shouldnt-we-trust-google/

(German) The vOICe für Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe&hl=de Mit den Ohren sehen! The vOICe für Android wandelt "live" Kamera Bilder in Bild-Geräusche ("soundscapes") um. Damit bietet es eine äußerst realistis…

The vOICe für Android – Apps bei Google Play
Erweiterte Realität für Blinde: Mit den Ohren sehen!

While I'm stuck in Cape Town I'm finalising the @… second 18 month report. And honestly, it's *awesome* what we have achieved.
Check out our publications on Google scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=da&as_sdt=0,5&q=101060452&btnG=

Resources to Learn More About the DPRK (aka North Korea)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPJjTYGBo4QRuafFkbWTA8imbpr-QP3tD_946Yv_v3A/edit?tab=t.0

Google kündigt Milliardeninvestition in Großbritannien an
US-Präsident Trump wird zum Staatsbesuch in London erwartet. Wenige Stunden davor kündigt Google eine milliardenschwere Investition in Großbritannien an.

The Italian federation of newspaper publishers submits a complaint to Italy's communication watchdog calling for an investigation into Google's AI Overviews (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

PSA: Google is default opting devices into "Find Hub", a "device location service".
https://support.google.com/android/answer/14796936
Opting out on your device:
"If you don’t want to use Find Hub to locate your devices when online, you can…

DMA: Google droht hohe EU-Geldstrafe wegen Play Store | heise online
https://heise.de/-11113513

DMA: Google droht hohe EU-Geldstrafe wegen Play Store
Google könnte Anfang nächsten Jahres mit einer möglicherweise hohen Geldstrafe der EU rechnen, wenn es keine weiteren Anpassungen am Play Store vornimmt.

"Wunder sollte man von Mistral 3 nicht erwarten. Für viele alltägliche Arbeiten dürfte das Modell aber passable bis gute Ergebnisse liefern. " Die Modelle von @MistralAI sind lokal nutzbar, anpassbar und liefern überraschend gute Ergebnisse – auch wenn sie keine Wunder vollbringen. Ein Fortschritt für alle, die ihre KI selbst in der Hand halten wollen. #KI

Künstliche Intelligenz: Für Google könnte es teuer werden
Die EU ermittelt gegen Google. Chatbots überzeugen, wenn sie mit falschen Fakten um sich werfen. Die französische KI-Hoffnung Mistral 3 ist da. Der KI-Newsletter

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

Apple and Google have released several software updates
to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users.
On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser,
-- noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it. 
Unusually for Google, the company provided no further details at the time.  But on Friday, Google updated the page to say that t…

Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks | TechCrunch
Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

Wieder ein Schritt näher am #Universaltranslator. 😁
#Google öffnet seine Live-#Übersetzungsfunktion für alle

Google Translate: Echtzeit-Übersetzung jetzt für alle Kopfhörer - Golem.de
Google öffnet seine Live-Übersetzungsfunktion für sämtliche Bluetooth-Kopfhörer. Bisher war das Feature auf die Pixel Buds beschränkt.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

@… https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Instrument Serif is currently used pretty heavily by the US Govt

»EU-Kommission leitet erneut Verfahren gegen Google ein:
Die EU-Kommission hat ein weiteres Verfahren gegen Google eingeleitet. Sie verdächtigt den Konzern, Nachrichtenseiten und Verlage bei den Suchergebnissen rechtswidrig zu benachteiligen. Bestätigt sich das, droht ein hohes Bußgeld.«
Das Google alles andere als offen und meinungsvielfältig ist wollen anscheinend dessen wenigsten Nutzer*innen wahr haben.
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EU-Kommission leitet erneut Verfahren gegen Google ein
Die EU-Kommission hat ein weiteres Verfahren gegen Google eingeleitet. Sie verdächtigt den Konzern, Nachrichtenseiten und Verlage bei den Suchergebnissen rechtswidrig zu benachteiligen. Bestätigt sich das, droht ein hohes Bußgeld.

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/15/google-dark-web-report-shutting-down/<…

Google is shutting down its ‘Dark web report’ tool after just over a year
One of the lesser-known features that Google offers is a “Dark Web Report” monitoring tool, but it’s about to shut...

Google baut einen ganz neuen Browser und eine neue Art von Web-Apps
Hauseigene Konkurrenz für Chrome? Google stellt mit Disco eine neue Art von Browser vor, der Informationen aus offenen Tabs in interaktive Web-Apps verwandelt.

Búzios Scientific Statement, summary in 5 posts.
100 climate researchers, coordinated by @… &
IIASA, , released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit da…

The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

#RightWingSexualPredators: there's almost 1500
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub?ref=unprecedented.ghost.io

They could solve world hunger, but instead do this
https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/115552322301509094

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro , een jaar gratis voor studenten, ik zou het altijd doen, om te experimenteren, te ervaren voor het wel en niet voor werkt.
#Gemini

Gemini for Students — get Google AI Pro free of charge for a year
Get more Gemini with Google AI Pro free of charge for a year to unlock Gemini's power for school & beyond, from homework help to video creation.

#grapheneos podría dar el salto pronto a mšs dispositivos con SOC Snapdragon (por eso amiguitos y amiguitas, nunca, nunca pero nunca compréis un móvil con chipset mierdatek, perdón Mediatek)

Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-backed-apptronik-tal…

Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation
Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400 million at a $5 billion valuation not including the new money, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The new round,led by B Capital, would at least triple the startup’s valuation from ...

Bericht: Großbritannien will Apple und Google zu Nacktfotos-Blockade zwingen
Das britische Home Office will Apple und Google auffordern, Nacktfotos systemweit zu blockieren. Entsprechende Pläne sind laut einem Bericht in Vorbereitung.

Just solved the 'my native #iphone #calendar won't show the #googlecalendar that my partner shared with me' problem. All I had to do was go to this sneaky secret URL and check the box

Wait, Google chooses fascism every time? How shocking. I’m shocked. Are you shocked? Is your cat shocked? https://techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech/115549237847126096

An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Google's AI mode does a reasonable job of comparing Neuralink Blindsight with The vOICe https://share.google/aimode/5KEGhQ1znivyJWaeN Whether The vOICe resolution is limited compared to direct neural stimulation remains to be seen.

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here".
Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the reputation if their core product.

A transatlantic warning. If #NigelTheStockbroker , No Cartoons Jenrick or BadEnoch came to power, this is a taste of what to expect.
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app that helps the government unconstitutionally target an actual vulnerable group."…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

KI-Update kompakt: Google Labs "Disco", KI-Regulierung, AGI, Psychotherapie
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https:/…

Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/ai/veo-updates-flow/

Introducing Veo 3.1 and advanced capabilities in Flow
Today, we’re introducing new and enhanced creative capabilities to edit your clips.

Wow, don't miss the intense amount of cybersecurity news in today's Metacurity, including
--AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts say,
--Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack,
--Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom,
--Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks,
--China…

AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts
Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters, Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack, Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters, ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom, Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks, much more

Google and Disney reach a deal to restore content from ABC and ESPN on YouTube TV (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/google-disney-reach-deal-to-restore-espn-abc-others-to-youtube-tv.html

Google bringt Nano Banana in die Suche und weitere Dienste
Seit Google Nano Banana veröffentlicht hat, sind Milliarden Bilder damit generiert worden. Künftig ist das KI-Bildwerkzeug auch in der Google-Suche verfügbar.

GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/google-flood-hub-cash-aid/

AI flood forecasting allows aid to reach farmers before disaster strikes
Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

This is an important announcement. Google uses it's ecosystem to gain an advantage, "Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services"
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ann…

Announcing official MCP support for Google services | Google Cloud Blog
Google is announcing official MCP support for Google and Google Cloud services for AI agents.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wegen KI-Zusammenfassungen: US-Verlagshaus reicht Klage gegen Google ein

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/798901/googl

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them
Paid results are going to start showing up a little differently on Google search pages.

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Google-Experiment „Disco“: Browser macht aus Tabs interaktive Web-Apps
Google Labs stellt mit Disco einen experimentellen Browser vor. Dessen „GenTabs“ soll aus offenen Tabs und Chatverläufen automatisch Web-Apps generieren.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Google plans to invest $15B over five years in India to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; Google has 14K staff in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/google-to-invest-15b-in-indian-…

Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub | TechCrunch
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.

Idealo-Prozess: Google zu 465 Millionen Euro Schadenersatz verurteilt
Der Preisvergleichsanbieter Idealo hat vor Gericht gegen Google gesiegt. Der Schadenersatz ist beträchtlich, aber auch beträchtlich kleiner als gefordert.
<…

Australia begins consultations with publishers and platforms on its News Bargaining Incentive, requiring Big Tech to pay local publishers or face new taxes (April Ossington/Channel News)
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australia-m

channelnews : Australia Moves to Make Tech Giants Pay for News As Google Faces New Scrutiny In Europe
Global technology companies are facing mounting regulatory pressure, with the Albanese government moving ahead on new laws that would force platforms like Facebook, Google and TikTok to pay for Australian news content, just as Google faces a fresh competition probe in Europe. Under the federal government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive, social media and search companies... Read More

Now you can search in the Epstein documents yourself.
#epstein

Google plans to invest £5B in the UK on AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, and expects to add 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the country (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-pledges-nearly-7-bi…

Google: KI-Agent Sima 2 trainiert in Videospielen für die echte Welt
Google hat eine neue Version seines spielenden KI-Agenten Sima vorgestellt, die komplexere Aktionen beherrscht. Sima trainiert in Spielen für die echte Welt.

Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/google-to…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google-Experiment „Disco“: Browser macht aus Tabs interaktive Web-Apps

Google and Disney's agreement gives YouTube TV users access to ESPN's full lineup of sports, including ESPN Unlimited, at no additional cost by the end of 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-disney-bla…

YouTube TV and Disney Reach Deal Ending Two-Week Blackout of ESPN, ABC
ESPN, ABC and other Disney TV networks are coming back to YouTube TV, after the media conglomerate and Google reached a deal on pricing and terms for a renewed carriage deal.

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/798901/googl

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them
Paid results are going to start showing up a little differently on Google search pages.

Google: Pixel Watch 1 erhält kein Update auf Wear OS 6
Die erste Pixel Watch von Google wird kein Update auf WearOS 6 erhalten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Pixel-Wat

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages | TechCrunch
By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

Google: Unverifizierte Apps bald per Sideloading für erfahrene Nutzer
Google weicht die strikte Registrierungspflicht für App-Entwickler ein wenig auf. Erfahrene Nutzer sollen künftig unverifizierte Apps sideloaden können.

Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, designed to securely facilitate agent-led payments across platforms, with the support of over 60 companies (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-new-

Google's new open protocol secures AI agent transactions - and 60 companies already support it
The Agent Payments Protocol aims to help consumers and businesses finally trust AI-enabled payments.

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Pixel 7 und 7 Pro: Nutzerbeschwerden über aufgeblähte Akkus
Google scheint weitere Smartphone-Modelle mit Akkuproblemen zu haben: Nutzerberichten zufolge kommt es beim Pixel 7 und 7 Pro zu aufgeblähten Batterien.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.

DMA: EU-Kommission prüft mögliche Mediendiskriminierung durch Google
Die EU-Kommission geht dem Verdacht nach, dass Google beim Ranking von Webseiten legitime Inhalte abwertet. Das soll unter anderem Medienangebote betreffen.

Google says it is working on a fix to combat the rise of spam sites in its Discover feed in the UK as fake AI-generated news stories gain visibility in the feed (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promi…

Google promises Discover 'fix' as more fake AI stories top rankings
Google has promised it is working on a "fix" for spam sites in its Discover app after more fake news stories topped the rankings in the UK.

Wegen Handyverbots: Schulen schaffen 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab
81 Schulen in Oregon schalten bei den Google-Konten ihrer 44.000 Schüler die 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab. Denn die dürfen ja kein Handy nutzen.

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages | TechCrunch
By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

WPP and Google strike a $400M deal to embed Google's AI tools like Veo in WPP marketing and give WPP early access to Google's latest video and image models (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ccf5ea33-1398-4b9d-8bf6-a403f2f5493e
…

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

DMA: Google droht hohe EU-Geldstrafe wegen Play Store
Google könnte Anfang nächsten Jahres mit einer möglicherweise hohen Geldstrafe der EU rechnen, wenn es keine weiteren Anpassungen am Play Store vornimmt.
https://ww…

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70 languages, in beta on compatible Android phones (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/843483/google-translate-live-sp…

Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Google Translate will now let users hear live speech translations in any headphones on its Android app, expanding a feature that was once only available with Pixel Buds.

Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/goog

Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications | TechCrunch
Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life

Google: Suche wird personalisierter und "hilfreicher"
Google als Social-Media-Feed? Die Suche soll personalisierter werden. Im AI Mode werden mehr Links ausgespielt.
https://www.he…

A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

Google warnt künftig vor stromfressenden Apps im Play Store
Google will übermäßig energiehungrigen Apps an den Kragen. Eine neue Metrik soll unter anderem Nutzer vor stromfressenden Anwendungen im Play Store warnen.

Android: Google ermöglicht Live-Video-Streaming an Notrufzentralen
Google hat eine neue Sicherheitsfunktion für Notfälle eingeführt, die es Notrufzentralen ermöglicht, Live-Videostreams von Android-Geräten anzufordern.

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-

Your Google Photos just got 3 huge Nano Banana image editing upgrades - for free
Google Photos just made it easier than ever to create realistic AI edits, thanks to Google DeepMind's top image-editing model.

Android: Google-System-Update für November mit Neuerungen
Apps geräteübergreifend verwalten, Videos bei Notrufen teilen: Google liefert mit dem November-Update neue Android-Funktionen über Play-Store und -Dienste.

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-boasts-1-3…

Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month, but the figure is mostly window dressing
Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models. But this headline number mostly reflects computing effort, not real usage or practical value, and it raises questions about Google's own environmental claims.

Amazonas-Aufforstung: Google-Deal mit brasilianischem Startup
Google kauft Ausgleichszertifikate für 200.000 Tonnen CO₂ von dem brasilianischen Wiederraufforstungs-Startup Mombak. Der Deal wird kurz vor der COP30 bekannt.

AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, while Perplexity and Opera have launched AI-native browsers too.

Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/

Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on 'Massive Scale'
Disney is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" using AI models and services to "commercially exploit and distribute" infringing images and videos.

Google Photos wird zum Video-Editor für Android
Google Photos wird videolastiger. Ein neuer Video-Editor wird zum Standardprogramm für Android. Zudem sollen Nutzer mehr Videos basteln.
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Google plans to invest $10B to build a new 1GW data center cluster near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India, with operations expected to begin by July 2028 (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/snippets/google-to-invest-10-bn-in…

Google to invest $10 Bn in Visakhapatnam data centre cluster
Google is planning a massive push in India by investing $10 billion to build a new data centre cluster in and around Visakhapatnam. The project will include three campuses. Snippets

Generative KI: Disney wirft Google massive Copyright-Verletzung vor
Googles generative KI soll in großem Umfang Disney-Rechte verletzen. Die Ausgaben würden dann auch noch auf Youtube verbreitet. Disney ist sauer.

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025/google-names-n…

Exclusive: Google names new chief of AI infrastructure buildout
Amin Vahdat, a veteran leader at Google, will become chief technologist for AI infrastructure, according to the memo reviewed by Semafor, and report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.