$349.54
+0.64%Sep 18, 2026, 17:51 UTC
Google updated its Search documentation to include local business queries in the two search result units rolled out in the European Economic Area for directories and direct providers.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 17:45 UTC
Crusoe is developing data-center projects in Texas, including a campus in Armstrong County with Google and two other Texas projects, plus one in Missouri, with more than six gigawatts of capacity under contract.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 16:45 UTC
Google's threat intelligence group detailed how one of its researchers infiltrated the hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree that breached thousands of companies.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 16:00 UTC
Google announced the Google AI Educator Series Badge-a-thon, a 12-hour drop-in webinar festival on September 19 offering live educator demos and ISTE-aligned digital badges.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 16:00 UTC
Google announced partnerships with College Unbound, ISTE and Dominican University, and the Illinois Digital Educators Alliance to offer college, graduate, and continuing education credits for its Google AI Educator Series training.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 15:39 UTC
Cybersecurity startup AIR discovered and reported Plugin4Shell, a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and GitHub, which allowed attackers to swap trusted marketplace plugins for malicious ones; most vendors have released patches.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 15:05 UTC
The Gates Foundation and Google will invest more than $100 million to develop AI tools for farmers, expanding the AI program's reach from 50 million to 200 million smallholder farmers.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:56 UTC
Google reportedly soft-launched its next-generation flagship model Gemini 4 Pro under the name "gemini-3.8-flash" and tested it on benchmark platforms including Arena.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:45 UTC
Tether's AI Research group launched TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, a collection of open-source machine translation models for African languages.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:13 UTC
Google appointed Anu Madgavkar and Daniel Rock as directors of AI and economics research.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:12 UTC
Google announced that Nobel laureates Philippe Aghion and Ajay Agrawal are joining the company to strengthen its artificial intelligence and economics team.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Google expanded its AI & Economy Research Program, appointing external academic advisors and visiting fellows including 2025 Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:45 UTC
Google opened an office in Pakistan and reached agreements with the Pakistani government to support the country's digital vision.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:40 UTC
Alphabet, Google's parent company, saw its shares rise as much as 3.5%, the largest gain in six weeks.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Google's Envisioning Studio, with support from Google Labs, co-created two specialized AI tools in Google Flow with fashion designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson ahead of New York Fashion Week.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 08:29 UTC
Astra for Law launched a legal AI platform, joining Google's Gemini Enterprise for Legal and Claude for Legal in competing to become the central platform for legal work.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 07:52 UTC
Springshot filed an objection in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy proceedings seeking to exclude records generated by its own software from the data archive being sold to Google.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 07:11 UTC
The Delhi High Court issued notice to Google and India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on whether a creator can challenge the termination of his YouTube channel via a writ petition, listing the matter for December 8.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 00:11 UTC
Visa, BlackRock, Google and DoorDash lined up behind Open USD, a stablecoin set to launch in 2026.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Virginia's U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and local candidates called for an end to non-disclosure agreements in municipal economic development deals, amid questions over a Roanoke County land sale to Clearview Dynamics LLC.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 23:15 UTC
Google published its September Pixel Update Bulletin on Sept. 15, stating all supported Pixel devices will receive the 2026-09-05 security patch level.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 23:15 UTC
Google published its September 2026 Android Security Bulletin on Sept. 8, patching dozens of vulnerabilities including critical remote code execution flaws across Android Framework, System, Runtime, kernel and vendor components.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 22:46 UTC
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) shares rose 1.33% to close at $343.87, outpacing the broader stock market.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 22:46 UTC
Alphabet (GOOGL) shares rose 1.3% to close at $347.33 in the most recent trading session.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 22:00 UTC
Ohio State University announced a partnership with Google that includes an on-campus Google space and access to Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence research laboratory.
Sep 17, 2026, 20:00 UTC
The United Nations announced it is working with Google to launch the UN System Data Commons, a platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons that makes UN global statistics accessible to AI systems via natural-language queries and the Model Context Protocol.
Sep 17, 2026, 20:00 UTC
YouTube rolled out a fix for blank screens affecting YouTube and YouTube TV users, primarily in Texas.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 17:43 UTC
Cybersecurity startup Air disclosed a shared logic flaw in the "Skills" auto-update mechanisms of Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot that could let attackers push malicious same-name updates and silently steal enterprise code or intellectual property.
Sep 17, 2026, 17:33 UTC
Google updated its Gemini hosted agents using a new testing framework, with the antigravity-preview-09-2026 release bringing related tools and capabilities to Google AI Studio and the Interactions API.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 07:30 UTC
Google released a new software update for its Pixel smartphones that includes a fix for a security vulnerability being actively exploited.
Sep 16, 2026, 17:11 UTC
Google unveiled a series of Gemini AI advancements, including the Pixel 11 series hardware, the Gemini 3.7 Flash developer model, and Gemini integration in Chrome and Android Auto.
Source:Sep 10, 2026, 19:00 UTC
Google updated its hotel and flight search results in Europe, introducing separate aggregator and supplier units, in response to a European Union antitrust enforcement decision.
Source:Sep 8, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Google removed its dedicated vacation-rental search unit from Google Search results across the European Economic Area, effective September 8, 2026, as part of compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act.
Source:Sep 4, 2026, 17:13 UTC
AI startup Micro1 is seeking to block or challenge Google's acquisition of Spirit Aviation Holdings' business records, attempting to topple Google's bid for the data.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 09:15 UTC
Spirit Airlines, in bankruptcy, agreed to sell 34 years of operational and employee data to Google for $10 million, subject to court approval.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Google appointed Fasieh Mehta as the first head of its Pakistan mission, following the opening of its office in Islamabad on August 18, 2026.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated Google's office in Pakistan after meeting Google Vice President Wilson to discuss digital technology and cooperation.
Aug 6, 2026, 12:04 UTC
The Delhi High Court issued an interim injunction in Alakh Pandey's personality rights suit, ordering the takedown of online content that is vulgar, commercially exploitative, or impersonates him, while deferring one YouTube video for separate consideration.
Source:Aug 3, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Actor Shruti Haasan filed a commercial suit in the Bombay High Court against Mahalaxmi Arts and Crafts Work and others, including social media platforms, seeking protection of her personality and publicity rights against AI-generated deepfakes, fake endorsements, and unauthorized merchandise. The court granted her leave to institute the suit.
Source:Jun 30, 2026, 17:08 UTC
Visa and Google have signed on to use the money movement stablecoin OpenUSD, which is set to go live later this year, according to an announcement from Open Standard.
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