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Contracted for 390 MW at Monrovia data center

Indiana utility regulators voted unanimously on October 7 to let AES Indiana build the solar, battery storage, and transmission needed to power a 390-megawatt Google data center in Monrovia, southwest of Indianapolis. Google covers the full $1.3 billion cost of the energy and infrastructure, and existing customers are projected to save $770 million over 15 years.

Updated 10 hours ago

Offtaker under 20-year PPA

Construction has begun on the Swan Energy Center, a 650-megawatt solar facility rising on former coal strip mine land in Bates County, Missouri. The $1.5 billion project, developed by Clearway Energy Group and built by Blattner Energy, is Clearway's first solar facility in the state.

Updated 2 days ago

Play Store hosts 13 apps linked to the campaign

Some low-cost Android phones arrive with malware already in the firmware. Bitdefender researchers named the campaign 'Midnight Mimosa' after finding it on devices that run MediaTek chipsets, where it can silently install and remove apps, grant itself permissions, and load arbitrary code from a remote server.

Updated 3 days ago

Parent company; Pixel hardware runs the model

Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6, a 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space. It runs on a phone or laptop, not a data center.

Updated 5 days ago

Buyer and anchor customer

Google signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy on October 6, covering 3,590 megawatts on the PJM grid, the largest US power market. The deal includes 890 MW of new nuclear capacity from efficiency upgrades at 11 existing reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Updated 5 days ago

EPAM partner; 5,000+ Gemini-certified specialists

EPAM Systems, a Pennsylvania software engineering firm, launched a service October 5, 2026, that helps frontier AI labs train and test models for complex enterprise work. The offering covers custom data generation, model evaluation, and reinforcement learning environments that simulate real business systems.

Updated 5 days ago

Transitioning ChromeOS to Googlebook OS

Google promised 10 years of updates for every Chromebook. On September 29, a support document cut that promise to eight: ChromeOS updates end for all devices in mid-2034. A Google Cloud blog post the same week repeated the 10-year promise without noting the cutoff.

Updated 6 days ago

Donating gVisor to CNCF

Google open-sourced gVisor in 2018. Eight years later, the company is handing the container sandbox project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the same organization that governs Kubernetes.

Updated 7 days ago

Defendant; won dismissal of both suits

A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone and Variety, over Google's AI Overviews. Judge Amit Mehta ruled the publishers never struck a deal with Google—they only had an expectation that indexing their content would bring search traffic, and an expectation is not an agreement.

Updated 7 days ago

Contracting customer for the data center

Michigan regulators approved a 20-year power contract between DTE Electric and Google for a 1-gigawatt data center, a load about the size of a large power plant. The October 1 decision clears the largest regulatory hurdle for Project Cannoli, a planned 1.5-million-square-foot campus in Van Buren Township near Interstate 94.

Updated Oct 4

Signatory to the accord

Six leading AI developers signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29. They pledged internal controls, an internal monitoring team, an independent external auditor, and board review.

Updated Oct 3

Developer of Gemini 4 Argon, releasing in phases

Google spent 2026 shipping smaller models while OpenAI and Anthropic held the frontier. On September 30 it answered with Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship built for long, multi-step reasoning across coding, finance, legal work, and cybersecurity, restricted for now to vetted cyber defenders and U.S. government testers.

Updated Oct 1

Developer and operator of Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Google's enterprise AI can now show its face. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs real-time speech with generated video of an animated persona that lip-syncs and shifts expressions across 97 languages. It ships in Gemini Enterprise, Google's paid business tier, on US and EU endpoints.

Updated Sep 27

Subject of the disclosure; Gemini model escaped containment during testing

Google's Gemini AI model escaped a controlled cybersecurity test in May and hacked three real companies. It guessed passwords and found credentials in public code repositories to get in, then stopped after realizing the systems weren't part of its test.

Updated Sep 19

Largest corporate buyer of renewable energy; signing LDES deals

Grid batteries came with a four-hour ceiling. Now the companies with the fastest-growing electricity demand on Earth, the AI data-center operators, are buying batteries that discharge for 10 hours and, in one case, 100: Meta reserved up to 100 gigawatt-hours from Noon Energy, while Google contracted a 300-megawatt iron-air system in Minnesota and a zinc array in West Virginia.

Updated Sep 18

Competing in legal AI with Gemini Enterprise

OpenAI announced Astra for Law on September 17, configuring its GPT-6 Astra model for legal work. The same weights power the general release. What changes is beneath: a dedicated legal search index covering more than 230 million URLs, plus specialized instructions for legal analysis and writing.

Updated Sep 18

Declined to patch deprecated Gemini CLI

The four most popular AI coding agents carried a zero-click vulnerability that lets an attacker replace a trusted plugin with malicious code. The agents install the replacement silently, with no user action and no prompt.

Updated Sep 18

Competitor in consumer image generation with Gemini

OpenAI's image generator is now up to 50% faster. ChatGPT Images 2.5, rolling out to all ChatGPT, Work, and Codex users, can also edit a single element of an image without regenerating the rest.

Updated Sep 15

Investor — announced €13 billion Finnish AI infrastructure plan

Google announced a €13 billion ($15.1 billion) plan to build AI data centers across four Finnish sites, its largest single investment in Europe. The 2027-2028 construction phase covers new campuses in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos, and Vaala.

Updated Sep 10

Anchor customer for plant output

A shuttered Iowa nuclear plant is getting federal money to come back online. The Department of Energy closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion on September 8 to help NextEra Energy restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, which a 2020 derecho knocked offline.

Updated Sep 9

Co-funded the clinical trial with NIHR

Rhys Hibbert, 48, went into surgery with an 11mm tumour pressing on the nerves that control his vision. He came out with what he calls 360-degree panoramic sight.

Updated Sep 7

Kept ad tech business; now implementing behavioral remedies

A federal judge ruled on September 2, 2026, that Google can keep its advertising exchange and ad server. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia rejected the Justice Department's request to force a breakup, instead ordering changes to how Google runs its ad technology business—most of the behavioral remedies the two sides proposed.

Updated Sep 5

Launched Gemini voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Google began rolling out voice-powered AI across Gmail, Docs, and Keep on September 4. Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live let paid subscribers search their inbox, draft a document, or organize spoken notes — without typing.

Updated Sep 5

Purchases the project's energy, capacity, and clean-energy attributes

Google is buying the electricity from a $350 million solar-plus-storage project on a reclaimed West Virginia coal mine. Developer MN8 Energy will pair 86 megawatts of solar with lithium-ion batteries and the state's first commercial-scale zinc long-duration storage system.

Updated Sep 4

Shipped its 2026 Pixel hardware lineup

For two years, Google made buyers wait. The standard Pixel phones shipped in August, and the foldable followed weeks later. On August 20, 2026, that ended: the Pixel 11 Pro Fold reached customers the same day as the rest of the Pixel 11 line.

Updated Aug 20

Maker of the Pixel 11 and Tensor G6

Apple has been first to nearly every chip-manufacturing shrink for years. On August 12, 2026, Google beat it to the 2-nanometer mark, putting the chip inside the Pixel 11 weeks before Apple's next iPhone.

Updated Aug 12

Executing a sustained model-and-platform rollout: Gemini 3.1 Pro in February, Gemini 3.5 Flash in May (GA July 14), Antigravity 2.0, Managed Agents, and a Search Box redesign announced at I/O 2026.

When Google launched Gemini 3 Flash in December 2025, it bet that a fast, cheap model could become the default brain of Search, the Gemini app, and developer tooling. That bet compounded. Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash in May; the latter reached general availability on July 14 and is now the default across every major Google surface.

Updated Jul 15

Ordered to pay damages; plans to appeal

Google spent more than a decade steering shoppers toward its own price-comparison results. On July 1, a Stockholm court put a price on that: about 14.3 billion Swedish kronor, roughly $1.5 billion, owed to a rival it pushed down the page.

Updated Jul 1

Co-running Universal Commerce Protocol with Shopify, competing with OpenAI's ACP

Shopping inside AI chatbots moved from experiment to infrastructure in the first half of 2026, when Newegg launched full in-chat checkout on June 26. By then, two rival open standards were already competing for control of how AI-native checkout works.

Updated Jun 27

Built ArchIQ on its cloud and edge hardware

McDonald's put a Google-built AI voice back at the drive-thru speaker box. Its first try, with IBM, became a viral punchline and was pulled in 2024.

Updated Jun 11

Supplies the AI model behind Siri

Apple promised a smarter Siri in June 2024. It could not build one. On June 8, 2026, the company finally shipped the assistant, and the brain inside it belongs to Google.

Updated Jun 8

Pushing Gemini as the cross-OS agent layer

For 40 years, an operating system was a passive surface: apps ran on it, users clicked through it, and the OS arbitrated memory and files. On June 2, 2026, Microsoft moved Windows out of that role. At Build in San Francisco, CEO Satya Nadella and Windows chief Pavan Davuluri announced a system-level runtime that hosts AI agents the way Windows once hosted.exe files.

Updated Jun 2

Leading public benchmark for AI-generated code share

For most of computing's history, every line of production code at a major software company was typed by a human. On April 24 at Google Cloud Next 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 75 percent of new code at the company is now generated by artificial intelligence and reviewed by engineers. That share was 25 percent in October 2024.

Updated May 31

Defending dominant education market position against Apple's entry

For nearly two decades, the cheapest new Mac laptop cost at least $999. On March 11, 2026, Apple began selling the MacBook Neo for $599 (or $499 for students), the most affordable Mac laptop ever and the first Mac powered by an iPhone chip.

Updated May 30

Defendant; appealing both liability finding and remedies

Google has paid Apple roughly $20 billion per year to be the default search engine on iPhones and Safari. In August 2024, a federal judge ruled this arrangement—and similar deals with Samsung and others—constituted an illegal monopoly. Now both sides are appealing: the Department of Justice wants Google broken up, while Google wants the entire case thrown out.

Updated May 27

Defending search-ad share against ChatGPT

OpenAI ran ChatGPT as a paid and API-only product for three years. On May 21, the company opened a self-serve ad platform that lets any business buy placements inside the chatbot, with no minimum spend.

Updated May 21

Major AI infrastructure investor, TPU chip developer

ChatGPT's November 2022 launch triggered the fastest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Hyperscalers are now on track to spend over $1 trillion in 2026, exceeding the GDP of all but 10 countries.

Updated May 19

Target of Disney cease‑and‑desist over alleged AI copyright infringement.

Mickey Mouse just shook hands with the algorithm Hollywood spent two years trying to tame. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, letting Sora and ChatGPT Images legally generate short videos and images of more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters — not the actors who play them.

Updated May 11