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Google projects full-year capex will be $195B to $205B in 2026, after saying in April that it will spend as much as $190B; its Q2 capex hit $44.92B, up 100% YoY (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

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Google projects full-year capex will be $195B to $205B in 2026, after saying in April that it will spend as much as $190B; its Q2 capex hit $44.92B, up 100% YoY — Alphabet Inc. projected full-year capital expenditures will be $195 billion…

Google Cloud is killing it

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It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

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Samsung Galaxy S26 FE and Galaxy Tab S12 Surface in Google App Ahead of Launch

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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE and Galaxy Tab S12 appeared in a Google app list, hinting at software prep before a possible late-summer launch.

Google's Gemini app nips at ChatGPT's heels as it nears 1 billion users

Google has been closing the gap with ChatGPT, as its Gemini app hits 950 million monthly users.

Google’s Q2 earnings of $112.11B beat Wall Street’s expectations on AI boom

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Google parent company Alphabet Inc. posted stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter, a sign that it’s massive artificial intelligence spending…

Google's Q2 earnings of $112.11B beat Wall Street's expectations on AI boom

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Google parent company Alphabet Inc. posted stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter, a sign that it’s massive artificial intelligence spending spree is paying off so far

Google says Gemini now has 950M MAUs, up from 900M in May and 750M in February (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Google says Gemini now has 950M MAUs, up from 900M in May and 750M in February — Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

Reddit's stock closed down 8.32% after a report that the company was considering ending Google's access to its content for AI training; RDDT is down ~26% YTD (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

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Reddit's stock closed down 8.32% after a report that the company was considering ending Google's access to its content for AI training; RDDT is down ~26% YTD — Shares of Reddit slid 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported…

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Michaels Debuts Google-Powered AI Shopping Assistant

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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant dubbed “Ask Mike.” Ask Mike was built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience and is designed to provide…

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'Gemini who?': Rivals dunk on Google's delayed frontier AI

Google's delayed frontier model has rivals taking jabs. One analyst said it has shifted the perception "from leading edge to trailing edge."

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A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law — Last December, Google sued SerpApi…

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Google Play Now Hosts Rival Android Stores, but Still Controls Every Download

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Google Play Catalog Access Program launched July 22 as the first court-ordered app store interoperability mandate in U.S. history. Rival stores can now appear inside Google Play, but every download still routes through Google's…

Google just made switching from iPhone to Android much easier with Android 17

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Android 17 introduces an upgraded migration tool that moves far more iPhone data than before. Wired transfers now move passwords, passkeys, eSIM, and Google Accounts and more.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 gets Google’s Gemini Intelligence before the Pixel 11

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Alongside Samsung's Unpacked reveals, Google unveiled Gemini updates for the new Galaxy foldables, including wake-word-free Watch 9 activation and a built-in iPhone data transfer tool.

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Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

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Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features — Samsung Electronics Co. showcased the smart glasses it developed in…

Gemini at Unpacked: Google announces major AI updates for foldables, glasses

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Google announced a few important Gemini updates alongside Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked.

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I waited years for Google's answer to Alexa—here's why it still falls short

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Stop trusting Google's smart home ecosystem, here's why Alexa is the safer bet.

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An intrepid hiker just found something unbelievable on Google Maps — and it’s been hiding in plain sight for 390 million years

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An amateur astronomer has discovered a 390-million-year-old meteorite crater on Google Maps.

Google scrubbed it, but Bing kept the receipts that show where LeBron James may play next season

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A private video on the Miami Heat's YouTube channel titled "LeBron James Introductory Press Conference" was scrubbed quickly, but Bing still indexed the link.The indexed video caused speculation about the superstar's plans.