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Chrome is now patching security holes twice a week, and AI found most of them
Google's browser shipped more security fixes in two releases last month than in the previous 23 combined. AI tools scanning its own code are the reason, and the pace may get faster before it slows down.

AI reads your website but sends people to your front door. Most sites are not ready for that.
Traffic from Google Search has collapsed for many publishers. But a new kind of visitor is arriving through AI chatbots, and they land somewhere completely different from where the AI found the information.

Google says its tools helped create 100 billion AI images. A watermark can label them, but can it stop the harm?
Google's tools have produced more than 100 billion AI images and videos in roughly two years. Its SynthID watermark can tag them at creation, but a label and a lock are different things.

Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.

AI's Money Problem: Google's Ballooning Costs Spook Investors Across the Whole Industry
Google admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than its previous top-end forecast. That miscalculation is rattling investors, and the pressure is spreading to every major AI company.

Google's AI Mode wants to help you touch grass
Search's new AI features pitch themselves as tools for getting offline: finding classes, booking tickets, and planning dinner parties.

Your Private Claude Chats Could Show Up in a Google Search
A technical gap between Anthropic's privacy instructions and how search engines actually work left shared Claude conversations visible to anyone who knew where to look.

Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.

Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.

Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here's what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.

Google and Tesla Are Burning Cash on AI. Wall Street Is Starting to Ask Why.
Both tech giants reported better revenue than expected, then watched their share prices fall. The culprit: eye-watering AI spending with returns investors can't yet see.

The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.

Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.

Google Made $119.8 Billion Last Quarter and Still Ran Out of Cash
Massive AI infrastructure spending pushed Google into negative cash flow for the first time ever, even as its cloud and search businesses hit record highs.

Google's Gemini AI Assistant Is Closing In on One Billion Users
The app hit 950 million monthly users in Q2 2026, tripling its audience in a year, and is now directly chasing ChatGPT's lead.