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The White House plans to nominate FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ Antitrust Division as acting chief Omeed Assefi prepares to leave, the second leadership turnover since February.

Google's new 12-billion-parameter open model drops separate vision and audio encoders, projecting raw image patches and audio waveforms straight into the LLM, and ships under Apache 2.0.

The European Commission is finalizing a high triple-digit million euro fine — the largest ever under the Digital Markets Act — against Google for promoting its own Shopping, Flights, and Hotels services in search results.

Google will shut down free access to the Apache 2.0-licensed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing it with a closed-source Go rewrite that enterprise subscribers alone will inherit.

Google's appellate brief, filed May 22, contests both the 2024 monopoly finding and a remedies order requiring data-sharing with rivals including OpenAI.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni fuses Gemini reasoning with Veo, Genie, and Nano Banana to generate and conversationally edit video from any mix of text, image, audio, or video input.

Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a cybercrime group built a zero-day exploit using AI, marking the first confirmed case of adversaries weaponizing an LLM to discover and exploit a previously unknown vulnerability.

Google Quantum AI and Google.org are funding five universities to develop quantum sensors and algorithms for molecular biology, targeting drug discovery and human health.

Google's new efficiency flagship outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on most evals while running 4x faster and costing 40% less.

At Google I/O 2026, Google previewed Android XR smart glasses powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro with partners Samsung, Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and XREAL, while reaffirming the summer rollout of Gemini Intelligence across its device fleet.

At its May 12 Android Show, Google introduced Gemini Intelligence and a new Googlebook laptop category built with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, with Chromebooks able to move to Googlebook-style software via firmware update.

On May 11, 2026 Apple shipped iOS 26.5 with beta support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging across iPhone and Android, the first large-scale interoperable encrypted messaging deployment between competing mobile platforms.