
Google quietly trims Cloud as AI spending keeps eating the org chart
Layoffs have hit Google Cloud and Mandiant, including the Threat Intelligence Group, as the company says it is reallocating toward growth areas like AI.
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Layoffs have hit Google Cloud and Mandiant, including the Threat Intelligence Group, as the company says it is reallocating toward growth areas like AI.

Google is turning Search into a personal branding layer for a limited class of creators and publishers, raising the stakes for attention, identity, and discovery.

Aura’s move to Google’s new Ambient API keeps shared photo frames auto-updating, preserving a sticky feature that matters for families and the hardware business behind them.

Google DeepMind's CEO says artificial general intelligence may be only a few years away, forcing leaders to prepare for a possible post-scarcity era now.

The multiyear pact gives Lovable far more cloud capacity and wider access to Anthropic Claude, a meaningful signal for AI app builders chasing scale.

The CMA says Google must add clearer links, give publishers an opt-out from AI search features, and publish compliance reports within nine months.

Google just pushed a 11.95-billion-parameter open model to the edge, changing the cost, privacy, and deployment math for enterprise AI teams.

The deal could help Google add capacity without new wires, but it also tests whether households and businesses will actually take the bait.

Former Plaid and Google executives are building personalized AI assistants designed to move beyond chatbots into proactive, autonomous collaborators.

Software engineers are watching their jobs change irrevocably as AI coding tools go from toy to teammate in months.

A landmark CMA ruling gives news organizations and creators the power to block their content from powering Google's AI Overviews.

The CMA says this new regulatory power shifts negotiation leverage, forcing Google to rethink its content deals.