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The CMA proposed its first conduct requirements under the UK's new digital markets law, targeting Google's AI Overviews, search ranking, and choice screens, while securing app store commitments from Apple and Google effective April 1.

Samsung has disclosed the first technical details of its Android XR-powered smart glasses, which will ship with a Qualcomm AR1 chipset and integrate Google's Gemini AI assistant. The device enters a market where Meta's Ray-Ban partnership holds an estimated 82 percent share.

Google added Cart, Catalog, and Identity Linking capabilities to its Universal Commerce Protocol, expanding the open standard that lets AI agents complete purchases across retailer platforms.

Samsung Electronics is negotiating three-to-five-year memory supply agreements with Google and Microsoft that could include more than 10 billion dollars in prepayments, as hyperscalers move to secure chip capacity amid a structural AI-driven shortage.

Google completed its all-cash acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz on March 11, clearing regulatory reviews in seven jurisdictions and reshaping the competitive landscape for independent cybersecurity vendors.

Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar deal to lease Google Ironwood TPUs as it diversifies its AI chip procurement beyond Nvidia, while Google targets 10 percent of Nvidia's data center revenue.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code moves to weekly stable releases starting with version 1.111, adding an Autopilot mode that lets AI agents operate autonomously, while Google simultaneously launches a similar auto-approve feature in Gemini Code Assist with stark security warnings.

Google's March 2026 Android security update addresses 129 vulnerabilities including an actively exploited Qualcomm graphics flaw affecting 235 chipsets and a critical remote code execution bug in Android 16.

A 300 MW Form Energy iron-air battery paired with 1.6 GW of wind and solar will power Google's new Pine Island data center, marking the largest energy storage project ever announced by capacity.

Google and Mandiant exposed UNC2814, a China-nexus threat actor that used a novel backdoor called GRIDTIDE to abuse Google Sheets as command-and-control infrastructure, breaching telecoms and government agencies across three continents since at least 2017.

Google's parent launches a historic multi-currency debt offering, including the first century bond from a tech company since the dot-com era, to fund up to $185 billion in AI infrastructure spending.

The European Commission must decide by February 10 whether to approve Google's largest-ever acquisition or open a deeper probe, in a case that could reshape cloud security competition worldwide.