OpenAI Moves Into Google Cloud, Ending the Era of Cloud Monogamy
GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna arrive in Google's Model Garden in private preview, billable through the same invoice as your other cloud regrets.
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Google Announces One Gemini Agent to Rule Them All, Gives It Its Own Email Address
Gemini gets an inbox, a calendar, subagents, an audit trail, and a spend cap, which is more than most new hires get in week one.
Google's '3.6 Gigawatt Nuclear Deal' Is 890 Megawatts of New Power and a Very Large Rounding Habit
The Constellation agreement is real, big, and mostly about squeezing more output from reactors that already exist — which is less cinematic than the headline suggested.
Google Puts Four AI Chips in Orbit, Lets Them Work 15 Minutes at a Time
Project Suncatcher's first satellite is in space, where compute is abundant, sunlight is free, and the main engineering challenge is that there is nowhere for the heat to go.
Government's New AI Chatbot Recites Bureaucratic Minecraft Poem, Nobody Claims Responsibility
America.gov launched to be a single front door to federal services. Type 'play Minecraft' and it hands you 1,800 words about ZIP codes.
Google Unveils Most Powerful Model Yet, Lets Approximately Nobody Use It
Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks, and is available to a carefully vetted guest list — which is one way to win a leaderboard.
Google Gives Gemini a Buy Button, Just in Time for Nobody to Know Who Handles Returns
Google is testing direct Flipkart checkout inside Gemini and AI Mode in India ahead of the festive shopping season. The button works. The commission, the refund process, and whether Amazon gets one too remain a thrilling surprise.
DeepMind Engineer Quits Because His Chips Were Working Too Well
Robert O'Callahan resigned from Google DeepMind's chip-design team, arguing that making AI hardware faster and cheaper is itself the problem — the second such very online resignation from a frontier lab in three weeks.
Consumers Sue OpenAI, Anthropic and Google for the Crime of Agreeing to Slow Down
A new antitrust lawsuit argues that AI labs publicly agreeing to be more careful is actually an illegal cartel, which means the industry has now been sued both for moving too fast and for saying it might not.
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Want to Regulate AI Themselves, So They Called the Guy Who Promised No One Would
The three biggest labs are recruiting a leadership team for a voluntary AI safety body, starting with the former White House adviser who spent his last months in office promising there would 'never' be an FDA for AI.
Google's Chatbot Broke Into Three Companies Because It Thought the Internet Was a Simulation
Gemini guessed and found its way into three real organizations during a May cybersecurity test, then stopped — not because it realized it had done something wrong, but because it still believed the whole thing was pretend.