AINov 3, 2026Ars Technica
Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google is handing schools an off switch for AI that also turns off Search, which makes the choice look a lot less like a choice.
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Google/Gemini
Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.
AINov 2, 2026TechCrunch
Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses
Google is bringing its prompt-free story app to India, betting that heavy use of its services there makes personal AI feel natural. The US numbers and the privacy questions both say caution.
AINov 2, 2026Google AI Blog
The latest AI news we announced in October 2026
Google's October recap reads as a confident victory lap, and the most important lines are the quieter ones about staged model releases and tools for spotting AI-made content.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
A single robots.txt line to block AI training: what the OpenAI-Google-Microsoft-Anthropic pledge does and doesn’t fix
Four big AI labs say they will honor one shared opt-out signal for AI training. Publishers would no longer need to track every crawler, but the scheme still relies on sites saying no, Meta hasn’t committed, and it offers no payment.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
A haiku from orbit is a stunt with a serious question underneath: whether AI computing should leave Earth, and who would be responsible for it once it does.
AIOct 30, 2026MarkTechPost
AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
Four big labs built AI bug hunters and landed on the same rule: the agent that finds a flaw never gets to confirm it. That rule is the real story.
AIOct 30, 2026Google DeepMind
Speeding up planning decisions with AI
Google DeepMind's planning assistant is heading to a dozen more English councils, and it's a rare public-sector AI story with early numbers, a human sign-off, and a lot riding on getting the rollout right.
AIOct 29, 2026The Verge
You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now
Gemini can now edit the files it makes without sending users to another app, which is a small change that pushes chat closer to becoming the place where office work happens.
AIOct 29, 2026Ars Technica
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Google just said the quiet part out loud: AI answers earn less than old search, and its plan is more ads inside the chat while it spends even harder on AI.
AIOct 28, 2026TechCrunch
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
Google is taking ads inside AI answers worldwide for the first time, and the timing tells you why: the search money machine is decelerating and investors noticed.
AIOct 28, 2026Ars Technica
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
Google's AI Mode dodged a settled question, who won the 2020 election, in the US while answering it plainly abroad. Google calls it a technical gap. It is also a trust problem.
AIOct 28, 2026Google DeepMind
Gemini 4 Carbon tops Google’s cyber benchmarks, which is why its rollout starts with defenders
Two weeks after Argon, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Carbon claims the top Artificial Analysis score and leading results at finding, exploiting and patching bugs. The staged release through Fairwind matters more than the leaderboard.