Google Cleared 300 Hectares of Finnish Forest for a Data Center. Finland Just Shut It Down.
Finland's environmental regulator ordered Google to halt construction at two data center sites after the company cleared roughly 300 hectares…
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Google Just Launched an AI Game Generator, and It’s Already Behind a Subscription Wall
Google's new Playground tool builds a playable 2D or 3D game from a text prompt, no coding needed. It's live…
Google Finally Put Numbers on How Long Indexing and Ranking Recovery Actually Take
Google's Gary Illyes shared concrete timing data showing new pages take roughly 20 hours to be discovered on average, some…
Google Just Paused Part of Its Bug Bounty Program Because AI Keeps Lying About Vulnerabilities
Google paused product vulnerability submissions to its open source bug bounty program on October 1 after a "significant rise" in…
Google Just Downgraded Free Gemini Users to Its Cheapest Model
Starting October 9, free Gemini app users lose access to the Flash and Pro models and get routed to Flash-Lite…
Google Is Paying Some Publishers for AI Overviews, and Most Are Getting Pennies
Google's AI Contribution pilot pays about 100 publishers when their content shapes an AI Overview or Gemini answer, but reported…
Google’s Latest Spam Update Is Taking Twice as Long as Usual, and Google Won’t Say Why
Google's September 2026 spam update is taking roughly two weeks to roll out, far longer than the one-to-three-day rollouts of…
Google Put a TPU in Orbit, and It’s Not Just a Stunt
Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite reached orbit on October 1, testing whether its AI chips can survive launch forces, radiation,…
A Federal Judge Just Spared Google’s Ad Business From a Breakup, With Strings Attached
Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell off its ad exchange, ordering behavioral fixes…
Google Just Told Website Owners: Fact-Check Your AI Content or Else
Google updated its help documentation on AI-generated content, adding language calling it "critical" for site owners to manually fact-check and…