Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Project Genie, an experimental AI tool from Google DeepMind that allows users to create and explore interactive digital worlds from text prompts. Powered by Genie 3,

Hayete Gallot joined Google in April 2025 to spearhead a new division focused on helping customers adopt the company's cloud products.

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

The settlement requires Google to change its Google Play terms of service and the setup screens for new Android mobile devices.

What is auto browse? It's a feature that brings an agentic experience directly to Chrome via Gemini. Google's AI assistant Gemini will appear on a right-hand sidebar within Chrome, allowing users to chat and interact directly with websites within the web browser.

Paid Google AI subscribers can ask Gemini to complete tasks, like shopping for party supplies or making an appointment.

The tech giant did not admit wrongdoing in the case.

By Mike Scarcella Jan 30 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to reject a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties over the company’s past collection of data from users who had switched off a key privacy setting.

Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that ⁠its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users.

The plaintiffs’ accusations had also included a claim that “information gleaned from these recordings was wrongly transmitted to third parties for targeted advertising and for other purposes,” which Google denied, and in the proposed settlement, it denies any allegations of wrongdoing.

By Paul Sandle and Muvija M LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Britain said it wanted Google to change its search services to give businesses and consumers more choice, including allowing publishers to "opt out" of their content being used in its AI Overviews or to train standalone AI models.

Google's new AI Plus subscription ($7.99) offers Gemini and creative tools, but hidden technical limits and a superior $9.99 alternative make it a tricky buy.