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Samsung to double mobile devices powered by Google’s Gemini to 800 million units this year

The South Korean company seeks to reclaim its lost crown from Apple in the smartphone market

On Sunday, the Waymo app showed a notification to some customers saying the service for the Bay Area is paused, affecting at least seven cities.

Waymos froze, blocked traffic during San Francisco power outage

PG&E says that it has restored service for 110,000 customers, but 21,000 remain without electricity

To speed development, Google is working closely with Meta on PyTorch, with talks under way for Meta to access more of Google’s TPUs.

Google works to erode Nvidia’s software advantage with Meta’s help

The effort is part of Google’s aggressive plan to make its TPU a viable alternative to Nvidia’s GPUs

TotalEnergies said the power would be generated by the new Citra Energies solar plant in Malaysia, which is scheduled for construction in early 2026.

TotalEnergies wins 21-year deal to power Google data centres in Malaysia

The power supply contract is expected to take effect in the first quarter of next year

Malaysia aims to have 70% of its installed power capacity be renewables by 2050, from about 26% last year, according to BloombergNEF.

Google signs solar power pact in Malaysia with Shizen Energy

The agreement highlights efforts by global tech firms to decarbonise their energy-intensive operations such as data centres

OpenAI touted GPT-5.2 Pro and GPT-5.2 Thinking as its best models yet for handling math or science work.

OpenAI beefs up GPT models in AI race with Google

OPENAI released its latest artificial intelligence models on Thursday, shrugging off worries about how it will cash in on massive spending in its technology race with Google.

Google was charged by the European Commission in March with favouring its own services over competitors.

Google faces EU fine next year for favouring own services, sources say

[BRUSSELS] Alphabet’s Google is expected to be fined by EU antitrust regulators next year for not doing enough to comply with EU rules against favouring its own services and products in search results...

The EU is concerned Google may have used content from web publishers to generate AI-powered services on its search results pages without appropriate compensation.

EU launches antitrust probe into Google's use of online content for AI purposes

It wants to know whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators

Competition is heating up in the emerging category of AI and augmented reality, or AR, glasses.

Google says first AI glasses with Gemini will arrive in 2026

Samsung Electronics, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are among its early hardware partners