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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
Shipping Gemini 3 Flash into Search, the Gemini app, and developer platforms.
The rollout didn't stop at "Flash is the default." In the days after launch, Google filled in the missing contract with developers. Gemini 3 Flash Preview is now explicitly priced in the Gemini API, with context caching rates, batch pricing, and a note that Gemini 3-era Search grounding will begin billing on January 5, 2026.
Updated May 15
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
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