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Google is funding the SHARE program with Rewiring America to connect thousands of household batteries, thermostats and heat pumps across Pacific Gas & Electric's service area in California so the utility can draw power from participating homes when the grid is strained.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 22:26 UTC
Google and four other organizations acknowledged vulnerabilities in their AI agents that allow a prompt-injection technique to spread harmful instructions between internal agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 18:45 UTC
Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Hồ Quốc Dũng met Google Vice President Cris Turner in Hà Nội, calling for closer cooperation on AI and the digital economy and for Google to help "Make in Vietnam" technology products reach regional and global markets.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 17:04 UTC
Graphite published a study finding that frontier AI models still rely on distinctive phrases and sentence patterns, identifying 13,000 phrases that appear at least twice as often in AI writing as in human prose.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 15:54 UTC
Google paused its open source bug bounty program after being overwhelmed by a surge of AI-generated submissions.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Democrats are divided over how aggressively to pursue oversight of corporations with ties to President Donald Trump and his family if they regain power in the midterms, according to a Politico report.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Australia's parliamentary committee on artificial intelligence opened four-day federal inquiry hearings in which OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google are to appear, with the committee chair demanding OpenAI explain how it will prevent its models from inappropriately accessing Australian data.
Oct 5, 2026, 11:30 UTC
Google raised the price of its Pixel 10a smartphone, citing surging memory prices, though the increase does not apply everywhere.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 10:39 UTC
Poland's antitrust watchdog said it suspects Alphabet's Google of abusing its dominant market position in negotiations over content payments with Polish media publishers.
Oct 5, 2026, 10:12 UTC
Google paused its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) on October 1, 2026, citing a surge in automated AI-generated submissions, while continuing to accept supply-chain reports and process reports filed before that date.
Oct 5, 2026, 09:30 UTC
UK education software provider Bromcom notified customers of a personal data breach in which an unauthorized third party accessed email addresses and limited information tied to legacy single sign-on registrations in its Communication Server environment.
Oct 5, 2026, 07:15 UTC
The Government Communications Office of Qatar and the Embassy of Qatar in the United States organised a promotional event in Washington, D.C. to build US participation in Web Summit Qatar ahead of its fourth edition in Doha from January 31 to February 3, 2027.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 07:00 UTC
Pointer Strategy's Pointer Index found that seven security vendors in its top 100 technology employers posted 180 unique job advertisements in Australia and New Zealand in the 90 days to 22 September, 43% more than the previous quarter.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 06:44 UTC
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared a chart showing Bitcoin's 30-day historical volatility at 39%, matching Nvidia, while Strategy's common stock (MSTR) registered 94% and its Stretch (STRC) preferred stock logged 9%, as of the October 2 market close.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 06:38 UTC
OpenAI and Google reduced usage quotas or the number of available models for their existing AI subscription tiers while keeping subscription prices unchanged, effectively raising the cost of maintaining the same level of service.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 04:07 UTC
Google announced a connectivity hub on Christmas Island amid reports of a proposed data center there.
Source:Oct 5, 2026, 01:56 UTC
General Motors and Ford Motor are deepening their smart vehicle strategies with support from Silicon Valley technology companies, tapping AI, cloud, and computing capabilities from Google and Nvidia to accelerate vehicle software development.
Source:Oct 4, 2026, 18:55 UTC
Apple and Google are lobbying state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety bills featuring self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits, while Meta backs bills that place age verification duties on app stores rather than platforms.
Oct 4, 2026, 13:30 UTC
UK-based Blue Whale Capital boosted its Alphabet position by 230% in Q2 2026.
Source:Oct 4, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Baillie Gifford increased its Alphabet stake by 44% in Q2 2026, buying 862,000 shares, as disclosed in its 13F filing dated 8 August 2026.
Source:Oct 4, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office opened a fresh stake of 336,000 Alphabet Class A shares valued at approximately $120 million in Q2 2026, after selling its entire position in Q1 2026.
Source:Oct 4, 2026, 05:20 UTC
Google suspended product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program due to an influx of invalid AI-driven reports and plans an update by Q1 2027.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 16:49 UTC
A New York federal judge ruled that USA Today Co., Daily Mail General and Trust Plc and a class of large publishers can seek more than $3.2 billion in damages from Alphabet Inc.'s Google over monopolization of advertising technology markets.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 10:30 UTC
A US court allowed Google to keep Chrome but barred exclusive distribution deals, with appeals pending.
Source:Sep 13, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users worldwide, replacing the previous Google Assistant.
Source:Sep 7, 2026, 14:15 UTC
Google, Tesla, Sunrun, and PG&E, along with other partners, announced a new virtual power plant programme in California on 3 September 2026.
Source:Sep 4, 2026, 06:44 UTC
Pacific Gas and Electric launched a virtual power plant pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area, partnering with Google, Tesla, and Sunrun to utilize over 20,000 smart home devices.
Source:Aug 22, 2026, 22:45 UTC
Mercedes-Benz announced that its new C-Class, arriving at U.S. dealerships in the first half of 2027, will feature a multi-agent MBUX Virtual Assistant integrating ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Gemini, along with Google Cloud's Automotive AI Agent for navigation.
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