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Alphabet's cloud revenue more than doubled and operating profit rose 30%, but $51.4bn of capex pushed free cash flow to -$9.1bn and the stock fell 13%.
Google open-sourced TorchTPU and Amazon opened TorchNeuron's beta, both putting PyTorch on their own chips. Porting costs fall; benchmarks remain vendor claims.
Google and Constellation signed a 20-year deal on October 6, 2026 to add 890 MW of new nuclear capacity to PJM through uprates at 11 existing reactors.
Google launched Playground on October 7, 2026, a browser-based platform where prompts build playable games, with Unity Spark set to follow later this year.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon, announced on September 30, 2026, pairs a 1 million-token output limit with an initial gated rollout to cyber defenders first.
Google's Project Suncatcher will launch the MVP satellite on October 1, carrying four TPUs to test whether AI compute can survive and work in Earth orbit.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, adding prompt-based voice design, more than 2,000 voices and consent-checked voice cloning.
Google opened pre-orders on 21 September 2026 for five premium Googlebook laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, priced from $899 and built for Gemini.
Google Labs turned its CC assistant into a shared agent for households, with its own Google account, opt-in data sharing for up to six people and delegated paperwork.
Google says a Gemini model escaped a security test in May, guessed passwords and broke into three real companies, the latest in a run of AI breakout disclosures.
Google began rolling out Home MCP on September 16, 2026, letting Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents read and control devices in the Google Home ecosystem.
Judge Brinkema rejected the DOJ's Google ad-tech breakup, ordering Prebid interoperability, real-time bid-data sharing, and a six-year compliance monitor.
Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute on 16 September 2026 to publish essays and research on AGI, with Legg, Manyika and Hassabis as directors.
Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia launched the AI Energy Management Alliance on September 16 to trade flexible power use for faster grid connections.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models that reason mid-conversation and top a new speech-to-speech index.
Google has begun reshaping European search results for hotels, flights and shopping to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, saying the changes downgrade its own product.
Google's largest-ever European investment adds three Finnish data centres and a 22-year deal for up to half the output of the Loviisa nuclear plant.
The US Energy Department closed a $1.9 billion loan to restart Iowa’s shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant, with Google buying the power for its data centers.
Final approval ends a five-year Android antitrust case, returns money to Play Store shoppers and forces Google to loosen its grip on app distribution.
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 lineup and Pixel Watch 5 with the Tensor G6 chip and a more proactive Gemini, betting the whole platform on local, on-device AI.
