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UK TRIBUNAL ALLOWS GOOGLE SEARCH ADS CLASS ACTION

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has rejected Google's attempt to block a class action lawsuit alleging the tech giant overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its market dominance. The decision clears the way for hundreds of thousands of British firms to proceed with the claim.

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Google Loses Bid to Block UK Class Action Over Search Ads

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must face a class action lawsuit over alleged abuse of its dominance after an antitrust tribunal…

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The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its dominance (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it…

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Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (Business Insider)

Business Insider: Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially wor…

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Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the…

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Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-pow…

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Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Kh…

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Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis' responsibilities (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Ha…

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down, but will remain with the company

A handful of high-level personnel changes are coming to DeepMind.

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Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO…

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PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and…

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Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious pr…

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Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who l…

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