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Founded1998

Key PeopleSundar Pichai

HeadquartersMountain View, USA

ProductsGemini, NotebookLM

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Hut 8 Stock Soars 15% After Landing $7 Billion Google-Backed AI Data Center Deal

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 shares surged after announcing a 15-year, $7 billion lease agreement with Fluidstack to deliver 245 megawatts of AI data center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana. Google is providing a financial backstop covering all lease payments, while J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are handling deal financing. The agreement marks a strategic pivot from cryptocurrency mining to AI infrastructure.

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Hut 8 Stock Soars 15% After Landing $7 Billion Google-Backed AI Data Center Deal

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OpenAI and Google battle for Indian users with free AI plans as training data becomes the prize

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity are offering free premium AI subscriptions in India, turning the world's most populous nation into a battleground for AI dominance. ChatGPT's daily active users surged 607% to 73 million, while Gemini reached 17 million users. Analysts suggest the freebies strategy aims to harvest diverse multilingual training data from India's 730 million smartphone users.

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OpenAI and Google battle for Indian users with free AI plans as training data becomes the prize

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Google launches CC, an AI assistant that emails you a personalized daily briefing each morning

Google unveiled CC, an experimental email-based productivity assistant that delivers personalized morning briefings directly to your inbox. Powered by Gemini, the tool connects with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive to summarize schedules and tasks. Available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US and Canada, CC competes with similar tools like ChatGPT Pulse in the growing AI productivity space.

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Google launches CC, an AI assistant that emails you a personalized daily briefing each morning

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Browser extensions with 8 million users caught secretly harvesting AI conversations

Popular browser extensions marketed as VPNs and ad blockers are intercepting and selling complete AI chatbot conversations from millions of users. Cybersecurity firm Koi discovered eight extensions, including Urban VPN Proxy with 6 million installs, that capture every prompt and response from platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The data is transmitted to third-party marketing firms, with no way to disable collection except complete uninstallation.

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Browser extensions with 8 million users caught secretly harvesting AI conversations

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Senators probe tech giants as AI data centers drive electricity costs up, communities fight back

Three Democratic senators are investigating whether AI-driven data centers are raising residential electricity bills, citing increases up to 267% in some regions. Meanwhile, grassroots opposition has blocked or delayed $98 billion worth of data center projects in 2025 alone. Tech giants including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta face scrutiny over confidential utility contracts and broken promises to shield consumers from infrastructure costs.

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Senators probe tech giants as AI data centers drive electricity costs up, communities fight back

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OpenAI launches GPT Image 1.5 as AI image generator war with Google intensifies

OpenAI released GPT Image 1.5, a new image generation model that generates images up to four times faster than its predecessor and costs about 20 percent less through the API. The release comes as OpenAI responds to Google's viral Nano Banana Pro model, with CEO Sam Altman having declared a 'code red' after Gemini 3's success. The new model promises better instruction-following and photorealistic image manipulation through a dedicated creative studio interface in ChatGPT.

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OpenAI launches GPT Image 1.5 as AI image generator war with Google intensifies

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Google commits $8 million to India's AI centres, launches health and language initiatives

Google announced $8 million in funding commitments to strengthen India's artificial intelligence ecosystem at its Lab to Impact dialogue. The funding will support four government-backed AI Centres of Excellence and includes healthcare initiatives using MedGemma models, a $2 million Indic Language Technologies Research Hub at IIT Bombay, and developer grants for building AI solutions aligned with India's Make AI in India vision.

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Google commits $8 million to India's AI centres, launches health and language initiatives

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Klarna launches open standard to help AI agents discover and compare 100 million products

Klarna unveiled its Agentic Product Protocol, giving AI agents access to a live feed of over 100 million products and 400 million prices across 12 markets. The open standard allows merchants to make their inventory discoverable to any AI platform without ads or intermediaries, establishing a foundation for the next generation of agentic commerce.

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Klarna launches open standard to help AI agents discover and compare 100 million products

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Reliance Intelligence begins operations as RIL pushes into large-scale AI development

Reliance Industries has operationalized its new AI subsidiary Reliance Intelligence, led by chief AI scientist Gaurav Aggarwal. The unit is actively hiring AI/ML engineers for Indic-language model development and will house partnerships with Google and Meta. The move signals RIL's ambition to build national-scale AI infrastructure, including a gigawatt-scale data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

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Reliance Intelligence begins operations as RIL pushes into large-scale AI development

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Google tests faster AI Mode history access on Android, matching iOS style history view

Google is testing a streamlined way to access AI Mode history in its Android app, potentially replacing the Labs shortcut with direct access from the home screen. The update, spotted in version 16.50.55, mirrors an iOS implementation already live, organizing past interactions by date for easier review.

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Google tests faster AI Mode history access on Android, matching iOS style history view

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Google Search adds plus button for instant AI Mode file uploads on desktop

Google has quietly introduced a plus button to its search homepage, allowing desktop users to upload images and documents directly for AI-powered analysis through AI Mode. The feature, which appears on the left side of the search bar, represents another step in Google's pivot to AI as competition with OpenAI intensifies.

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Google Search adds plus button for instant AI Mode file uploads on desktop

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OpenAI Hires Google Executive Albert Lee to Lead Corporate Development and Acquisitions Push

OpenAI has appointed Albert Lee, a veteran Google executive with over $50 billion in deal experience, to lead corporate development. The move signals an aggressive acquisition era as the AI company, valued at $500 billion, expands its leadership team and pursues strategic investments to compete with rivals like Google and Anthropic.

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OpenAI Hires Google Executive Albert Lee to Lead Corporate Development and Acquisitions Push

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Sergey Brin calls retirement 'the worst decision' and returns to Google to lead Gemini AI push

Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits his 2019 retirement was a mistake, revealing he was 'spiraling' before returning to work on Gemini AI. Speaking at Stanford University, Brin acknowledged Google 'messed up' by underinvesting in large language models despite pioneering the Transformer research that powers ChatGPT.

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Sergey Brin calls retirement 'the worst decision' and returns to Google to lead Gemini AI push

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Google AI brings NotebookLM into Gemini with new integration that changes cross-tool workflows

Google AI is rolling out a NotebookLM integration for Gemini, allowing users to attach notebooks directly to conversations. The feature lets you use NotebookLM as a context source while leveraging Gemini reasoning capabilities, effectively bridging two powerful AI tools. Users can now query multiple notebooks at once and combine personal research with web insights.

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Google AI brings NotebookLM into Gemini with new integration that changes cross-tool workflows

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Google upgrades Gemini audio models to handle natural conversations and live translation

Google has rolled out major updates to Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio, improving how live voice agents handle complex workflows and natural conversations. The update introduces live speech translation that preserves speaker intonation and prevents Gemini Live from cutting users off mid-sentence. These enhancements are now available across Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Google Translate app.

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Google upgrades Gemini audio models to handle natural conversations and live translation

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