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−1.11%Aug 28, 2026, 00:00 UTC
Exabeam has been named a Google Unified Security Recommended partner for its integration of Exabeam New-Scale Analytics with Google Security Operations.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 22:45 UTC
Google announced Zero-Tap Sign-In for Android, requiring automatic login restoration when switching devices, effective April 2027.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 21:59 UTC
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube violated consumer protection laws by suspending user accounts.
Aug 27, 2026, 17:01 UTC
A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI, signed an open letter calling on countries and organizations worldwide to improve cyber defenses before AI becomes powerful enough to override them.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 14:50 UTC
Google announced new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch.
Aug 27, 2026, 14:05 UTC
Alphabet's market value has fallen by over $700 billion, with shares down about 15% from their peak, amid concerns about talent attrition and loss of AI competitive advantage.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Google introduced platform-wide support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) on Android 17, making it the first major mobile OS to do so, with the feature enabled by default.
Aug 27, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Google introduced a special edition Pokémon Sleep Fitbit Air wearable with a sleeping Pikachu design, available for preorder starting today and shipping on September 15.
Aug 27, 2026, 09:53 UTC
Japanese Minister for Children Hitoshi Ushikata met with Google executive Laurie Richardson in Tokyo on August 27, 2026, where Richardson expressed caution about uniform age restrictions for social media.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 01:46 UTC
Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI researcher, will join Google as vice president of research.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 21:45 UTC
Google moved its AI responsibility team.
Aug 26, 2026, 19:00 UTC
Google, KAESO, and the National Transmission Company of South Africa will participate in high-level discussions at African Energy Week 2026 in Cape Town to drive critical infrastructure and operational technology dialogue.
Aug 26, 2026, 16:45 UTC
The Trump administration has entered into data-sharing agreements with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other technology companies to monitor the impact of artificial intelligence on employment and hiring practices.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 16:00 UTC
Google selected 28 startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator programs across North America and Europe to support AI solutions for the energy sector.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Google announced Android Halo, an AI feature for Android devices that provides status-bar visibility and background task updates for AI agents, with availability planned for later in 2026.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 09:35 UTC
Pershing Square Capital Management, led by Bill Ackman, trimmed its Amazon position by 25%, sold its entire Alphabet stake, and increased its Microsoft holdings by 553,000 shares during the second quarter.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 07:53 UTC
China's Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google over revenue-sharing agreements to host its Kimi K3 model.
Aug 26, 2026, 06:12 UTC
The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) ordered Google to remove three loan apps (Horizon Cash Service, Money Score Monitor, Zelicredit) from the Play Store for predatory interest rates and data theft.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 06:01 UTC
The Trust & Safety Association of Japan announced the launch of the Japan Online Fraud Countermeasures Alliance (JASA), a cross-industry council to combat online fraud, with support from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Trend Micro, and other organizations.
Source:Aug 26, 2026, 03:30 UTC
Google published a whitepaper in March 2026 finding that cracking ECDLP-256 may require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, a roughly 20-fold reduction from prior estimates.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 13:45 UTC
A US federal judge ruled that California may enforce a law restricting social media platforms from providing personalized algorithmic feeds to minors without verifiable parental consent, rejecting First Amendment challenges by Google, Meta, and TikTok.
Source:Aug 24, 2026, 21:15 UTC
Meta Platforms and Google petitioned the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to block enforcement of California's SB976 law restricting algorithmic recommendations to minors.
Source:Aug 24, 2026, 19:56 UTC
Alphabet's stock gained approximately 0.4% to $346.155 on Monday afternoon while the Nasdaq and semiconductor stocks sank.
Aug 21, 2026, 08:09 UTC
India ordered Google to remove hundreds of Firebase accounts used by criminals to impersonate banks and defraud people.
Aug 17, 2026, 01:40 UTC
Alphabet suspended its stock buyback program due to negative free cash flow in Q2 2026.
Source:Aug 15, 2026, 04:31 UTC
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are leaving Google after more than a quarter-century, and Demis Hassabis was persuaded to stay in a chair role while Koray Kavukcuoglu will run the organization.
Source:Aug 13, 2026, 00:00 UTC
During an all-hands meeting, employees were told that some teams would move from DeepMind into Google's corporate organization.
Source:Aug 5, 2026, 02:27 UTC
US government informed AI developers Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI of a new framework that would exempt open-source AI models from pre-approval safety reviews, aiming to balance innovation and safety management.
Source:Aug 3, 2026, 15:59 UTC
The Trump administration invited OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to the White House on Tuesday to preview the new voluntary AI framework, with companies lobbying for specific language on issues including open-source.