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Oct 1

ThursdayToday4 items

  2. Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

    Google's AI content contribution pilot has admitted around 100 websites, which can be paid when their content materially contributes to search results such as Gemini-powered AI Overview. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized sites say the income amounts to around one-thousandth of their advertising revenue. Some larger sites have declined to participate in hopes of securing better terms. Google had long refused direct payments to websites, arguing that crawling content in exchange for traffic was already a fair exchange.

  3. FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns

    The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson plans to use legally binding civil investigative demands to compel document handovers and question executives, with demands expected within weeks. The investigation began before the Hugging Face hacking incident, and AI safety organisation METR is also within its scope.

Sep 30

Wednesday

  1. Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results

    According to The Information, Google has launched a pilot paying for publishers' content contributions to its AI search features, with around 100 publishers participating. They are paid according to contributions to AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot. One early participant earned more than $1 million in a year, while another that joined a few months ago earned around $50,000–$60,000.

  3. Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers

    Google is paying around 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot, under a pilot launched less than a year ago. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized blogs and websites receive less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue. Small sites earn under $1,000 over several months, while some publishers received $50,000–$60,000 over a few months and one earns more than $1 million a year.

  4. Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

    Trump announced the White House's launch of America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot for finding government services and information. Google confirmed involvement and provision of Gemini; participation by other AI companies remains unclear. Trump said a single entry point would answer all questions, removing the need to search tens of thousands of government websites and rules. The article noted that large language models remain prone to hallucinations, and errors about food stamp applications, visa renewals or taxes could cause missed deadlines, denied benefits or penalties.

Sep 29

Tuesday

Sep 25

Friday

  2. Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

    Google's Project Suncatcher will launch its first test satellite, MVP, on 1 October to validate an orbital AI data-centre concept. Roughly refrigerator-sized, it carries four Google-designed TPU accelerators and about one kilowatt of solar power. Google integrated the chips into a satellite already built by imaging company Planet Labs to accelerate progress; the original plan was to launch two custom satellites in 2027.

Sep 24

Thursday

  2. Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

    Google DeepMind announced an update to Private AI Compute that brings persistent, cross-device AI memory to the cloud while maintaining device-level privacy standards. Data is sealed in encrypted storage, with decryption keys retained only on user devices. When a model needs access, an end-to-end encrypted channel connects to a cloud secure enclave, where data is temporarily decrypted in isolated memory, then re-encrypted immediately after new context is saved.

Sep 18

Friday

  1. [AINews] not much happened today

    Anthropic introduced Projects in Claude Code, allowing one conversation to spawn parallel cloud sessions, pass context between threads and keep running after users leave. Google updated the Antigravity-based harness for Gemini managed agents with Credentials API and Files API, claiming up to 30% lower costs and 22% higher cache-hit rates.

Sep 16

Wednesday

Aug 27

Thursday

  1. Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

    Google DeepMind announced the world’s first double-blind evaluation of proprietary frontier AI models, restricting external evaluations to cryptographically isolated environments to prevent models seeing test questions in advance. The pilot partners with the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVERI and MLCommons to test Gemini Flash Lite with confidential benchmarks in a privacy-preserving environment.

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Jun 13

Saturday

  1. A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

    With Google's support, UC San Diego plans a data centre using motherboards from 2,000 retired Pixel phones to provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for hundreds of students and faculty. SPEC benchmarks show 25–50 phones roughly equal one modern server. Phones form Kubernetes-managed clusters of 25–50 devices, with launch expected in autumn 2026.

Jun 10

Wednesday

Jun 9

Tuesday

  1. Powering the future of robotics in Europe

    Google DeepMind launched a three-month Robotics accelerator for 15 early-stage European robotics start-ups, providing technical guidance and access to its AI stack and Gemini robotics models. Covering logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, climate and navigation, it starts in London this week.

May 22

Friday

  1. We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks

    Google DeepMind launched its first Asia-Pacific accelerator, focused on AI for the Planet, for regional start-ups, research teams and non-profits over three months. Selected organisations receive expert guidance and tailored support, drawing on frontier and scientific AI models from Google AI experts to address nature, climate, agriculture and energy challenges. It begins with an in-person bootcamp in Singapore, with expressions of interest now open.

May 16

Saturday

  1. Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership

    Google DeepMind and Singapore's government formed a national AI partnership with new projects in healthcare, research, education and climate. It explores an AI-assisted triadic-care model, uses AlphaFold and Google Earth for Southeast Asian infectious-disease research and develops a Gemma-based running assistant to help visually impaired athletes train independently.

May 2

Saturday

  1. Catalyzing scientific impact through global partnerships and open resources

    Google Research said its open-source tools and datasets have enabled over 250,000 researchers and developers worldwide. Genomics tools DeepVariant, DeepConsensus and DeepPolisher have supported processing exomes and whole genomes from 2.5 million people; MedGemma has over 4.8 million downloads. Open Health Stack is deployed in more than ten countries, reaching over 65 million beneficiaries.

Apr 27

Monday

Apr 21

Tuesday

  1. Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation

    Google DeepMind announced partnerships with Accenture, Bain & Company, BCG, Deloitte and McKinsey to scale frontier AI in enterprises. Partners get early access to models including Gemini and develop industry-specific solutions for finance, manufacturing, retail and media and entertainment. Currently only 25% of organisations have scaled AI into production.

Mar 18

Wednesday