Google is an American multinational technology company and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its products include Google Search, Android, YouTube and Gemini.
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Sundar Pichai, CEO. Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google, a role he has held since 2015.
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WYDE coverage of Google
WYDE Newsroom has published 16 articles about Google, from Apr 2, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026. Google is the subject of 15 stories and a named leader in 1 story. The most recent is Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, Reporting Nearly 280 Million Installs.
Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, Reporting Nearly 280 Million Installs
Anthropic donated Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. Anthropic says the open standard has 1 million published skills and nearly 280 million installs.
Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyMore Time to Apply: The $1 Million Clipping Fund Is Open to October 31
WYDE Weekly: creators who applied or joined bring more than 45 million followers, and the $1 million clipping fund now takes applications through October 31. Plus $100 million for stillbirth prevention, $18.5 million for food banks and the week in giving, AI and health, by the numbers.
Oct 17, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story
AIGoogle's AMIE Chatbot Consulted 98 Patients Before Urgent Visits, With No Safety Stops
A Lancet study at a Boston primary care clinic found supervising doctors never had to stop an AI chat for safety reasons. Its differential diagnoses matched the doctors' final diagnoses 90% of the time.
Oct 12, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyStates Just Took On SNAP's Bill, Fraud Topped $900 Million in a Week, and Philanthropy Wrote $1.2 Billion in Checks. Over 71,800 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the SNAP cost shift hits states October 1, Fast Lab's $500 million COVID fraud plea, Bitget's $387.5 million hack, the Fed's first stablecoin rules, and Phil and Penny Knight's $1 billion gift to Oregon.
Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AIA New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down
A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Have Been Coordinating on AI Safety for Weeks
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three leading AI labs have spent weeks coordinating on frontier AI safety, weighing an industry standards body and independent verification, even as the White House dismisses the risks.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIA Judge Tosses the Economic Espionage Case Against Ex-Google AI Engineer Linwei Ding
US District Judge Vince Chhabria vacated seven economic espionage convictions against Linwei Ding for lack of evidence he meant to benefit China, while upholding seven trade secret theft counts tied to Google's AI data center technology, ahead of a September 1 sentencing.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIThe Ninth Circuit Rules Section 230 Does Not Shield Social Media Companies From Youth Addiction Lawsuits
The Monday ruling lets thousands of cases against Google, Meta, Snap and TikTok move forward, and Meta goes to trial Wednesday over claims it illegally collected children's data.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyA Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the CLARITY Act misses its Senate deadline, SNAP enrollment drops by 4 million, HHS moves to erase 1,400 Head Start rules, and researchers use AI to design 16 working viruses.
Aug 8, 2026 · 8 min read · Quoted or named as leader
AIDemis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO to Become Alphabet's Chief Scientist
Sundar Pichai's reshuffle moves Hassabis into a new Chair and Chief Scientist role, sends longtime engineer Jeff Dean out the door to start his own company, and lands as Google faces delays on Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIThe White House Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to Review Its New Frontier AI Cybersecurity Framework
The administration finalized its frontier model framework by the executive order's August 1 deadline and called AI companies to a staff-level meeting Tuesday, with up to 30 days of pre-release government access on the table and the contents still unpublished.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklySwift's banking network turned on its blockchain, Circle became a bank, and an XRP windfall gave away $154 million. Over 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Swift's live ledger with 17 banks, Circle and Sony's OCC charters, the $1.4 trillion Meta demand, a revived 45 million hunger warning, and Rippleworks' record $154 million grant year.
Jul 12, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AIGoogle Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Orders Food Inside Google Maps
An Android Authority APK teardown found an "Ask Maps to order food" feature in Google Maps beta code, pointing to Gemini AI placing restaurant orders on users' behalf with payment approval kept human
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
LegalSupreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Are a Search Under the Fourth Amendment
In Chatrie v. United States, a 6-3 Supreme Court held that a Google geofence warrant for cellphone location data is a search, putting police location tracking under Fourth Amendment scrutiny.
Jun 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE Weekly$EAT just hit #1 on Base. Three states legalized DAOs. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday.
$EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.
Apr 4, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
Crypto & DeFiGoogle Quantum AI Proves Breaking Crypto Encryption Needs 20x Fewer Resources Than Previously Estimated
Google Quantum AI shows breaking crypto encryption needs 20x fewer qubits than estimated, setting a 2029 post-quantum migration deadline for all blockchains.
Apr 2, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story
Reported alongside Google
- OpenAI · in 9 stories with Google
- Anthropic · in 7 stories with Google
- Google DeepMind · in 4 stories with Google
- Meta · in 4 stories with Google
- Circle · in 3 stories with Google
- Demis Hassabis · in 3 stories with Google
- Block · in 2 stories with Google
- Coinbase · in 2 stories with Google
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