Google Lines Up $40B Anthropic Bet as AI Compute Race Intensifies
Google is reportedly preparing up to $40 billion in cash and compute support for Anthropic, including $10 billion now and another $30 billion tied to performance targets. The deal deepens Anthropic's dependence on hyperscale AI infrastructure.
Google Upgrades Gemini Deep Research With a New Max Tier for Autonomous Agents
Google is expanding its Gemini Deep Research offering with a faster standard agent and a new Deep Research Max mode built for higher-quality autonomous research. The launch adds MCP support, native charts, multimodal grounding, and deeper enterprise data access to long-horizon research workflows.
Google AI Subscribers Get Premium AI Studio Access as Prototyping Gets Easier
Google is giving AI Pro and Ultra subscribers higher usage limits in AI Studio, along with access to Nano Banana Pro and Gemini Pro models. The move makes it easier for developers to treat a consumer AI plan as a low-friction bridge into deeper prototyping.
Gemini Lands on Mac With a Native Desktop App Built for Always-On AI Help
Google has launched a native Gemini app for macOS, giving Mac users a faster way to access AI help with a global shortcut, window sharing, and support for local files.
Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS With More Expressive, Controllable AI Speech
Google has launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS in preview across the Gemini API, Vertex AI, and Google Vids, adding stronger controllability, native multi- speaker dialogue, and new audio tags for expressive speech generation.
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Push Gemini Into Industrial Robotics
Boston Dynamics is partnering with Google Cloud and DeepMind to embed Gemini robotics intelligence into Spot and Orbit, bringing more advanced reasoning and visual inspection capabilities to industrial environments.
Google Brings Reusable Gemini Skills to Chrome to Turn Prompts Into One-Click Workflows
Google is adding Gemini Skills to Chrome, letting users save and reuse prompt workflows across web pages as the browser becomes a more active AI productivity surface.
Gemma 4: Byte for Byte, the Most Capable Open Models Google Has Ever Built
Google has released Gemma 4, its most capable open model family yet — four sizes from edge-optimized 2B to a 31B dense model, all under Apache 2.0 and built on the same research that powers Gemini 3.
Gemini for Business Is Quietly Getting NotebookLM Integration and a Skills Layer — Here's What's Surfacing in the Builds
Hidden features in recent Gemini for Business builds point to deeper NotebookLM integration, a pre-built skills library from Google, and a no-code Skill Architect tool — moves that would bring the Business tier closer to parity with Enterprise and push directly into Microsoft's turf.
Databricks Acquires Two Startups to Power Its New AI-Driven Security Product
Flush with capital from a $5 billion raise, Databricks is moving into enterprise security with Lakewatch, a new SIEM platform backed by Claude and two quiet acquisitions.
Gemini Can Now Import Your AI Memories and Chat History From Other Apps
Google is rolling out memory and chat history import tools for all Gemini consumer accounts, letting users carry their preferences and past conversations from other AI assistants without starting over.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro: Longer Tracks, Deeper Control, and Enterprise Access
A month after Lyria 3's debut, Google is releasing a Pro tier with three-minute track generation, structural composition control, and rollout across Gemini, Vertex AI, and ProducerAI.
Google Quantum AI Expands Into Neutral Atom Computing Alongside Its Superconducting Program
Google Quantum AI is betting on two complementary quantum modalities — superconducting qubits and neutral atoms — to accelerate the path to commercially relevant quantum computers by decade's end.
Google's TurboQuant Slashes AI Memory by 6x — Could It End the RAM Crisis?
Google's new TurboQuant compression algorithm reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x with zero accuracy loss, delivering up to 8x speedup on H100 GPUs — and rattling memory stock prices on day one.