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GOOGLE PRIORITIZES CLOUD, AI OVER INTERNAL TPU ACCESS

Google is rationing its custom-built TPU chips for cloud customers and flagship AI products, intensifying competition among internal employees and researchers for access to the specialized hardware, according to sources.

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Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it pri…

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Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of $5B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Go…

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Google, Blackstone to Create AI Cloud Firm With In-House Chips

Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to create an artificial intelligence cloud business with Blackstone Inc., aiming to compet…

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Google Agrees to Create AI Cloud Firm With Blackstone

Alphabet’s Google agreed to create an artificial intelligence cloud business with Blackstone, aiming to compete with com…

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Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, letting users ask natural language questions, rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subs this summer (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, letting users ask natural la…

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Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its "strongest agentic and coding model yet", for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode (The Keyword)

The Keyword: Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon…

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Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (New York Times)

New York Times: Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gem…

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Google restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

Lance Whitney / ZDNET: Google restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutti…

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Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can "create anything from any input", starting with video generation, for Google AI subscribers (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can “create anything from any in…

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Google says it is expanding access to CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted in October, by inviting select groups of experts to test the API (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Hayden Field / The Verge: Google says it is expanding access to CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted i…

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Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate…

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Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps are for personal use only for now and publishing is on the roadmap (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google's web-based AI Studio now lets users build native Android apps; Google says the apps ar…

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Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall (Wired)

Wired: Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal'…

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Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (Mat Smith/Engadget)

Mat Smith / Engadget: Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and mo…

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Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO…

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Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)

Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni…

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Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hy…

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Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more (Macy Meyer/CNET)

Macy Meyer / CNET: Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to cre…

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Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer: Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his o…

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Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M+ to the city-state's AI ecosystem (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Dylan Butts / CNBC: Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up…

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Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

John Timmer / Ars Technica: Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools…

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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Con…

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Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including "dynamic quick access" for favourites, a "View more" floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynamic quick access” for favourites, a “Vi…

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Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including "disregard", "ignore", and "skip" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms i…

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Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for…

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Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (Océane Herrero/Politico)

Océane Herrero / Politico: Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet…

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