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Latest Google news and analysis — 32 articles tagged Google on The Robotics Media.
- Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash With Fairwind Cyber Variant On September 2 — — Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, its fourth Flash release in as many months, at $0.75 per million input tokens and with a Fairwi...
- MediaTek Locks In Google TPU v8 Inference Role With Zebrafish Design — — Google's TPU v8 splits training and inference across Broadcom and MediaTek, with MediaTek's Zebrafish variant giving the Taiwanese fabless a durable f...
- Google's A2A Protocol Joins Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation — — Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol has formally joined the Linux Foundation-hosted Agentic AI Foundation, sitting alongside Anthropic's Model Context...
- Google Research Unveils 'Nested Learning' To Beat Catastrophic Forgetting — — Google Research introduced Nested Learning, a new machine-learning paradigm that treats a model as a hierarchy of nested optimization problems, and a...
- Marvell Grants Google $12.2B Warrant In Custom AI Chip Deal — — Marvell disclosed on August 19, 2026 that it has granted Google a $12.2 billion stock warrant tied to a $120 billion, seven-year commercial deal to co...
- Marvell's $120B Google Custom Chip Deal Faces Revenue Timing Test — — Marvell Technology shares fell about 8% after CEO Matt Murphy told investors the semiconductor company's up to $120 billion custom AI chip agreement w...
- Quantum X Labs' AI Decoder Tops PyMatching On Google's Surface-Code Data — — QXL says its AI-driven quantum error correction decoder, trained only on synthetic samples, beat Google's correlated-matching and PyMatching benchmark...
- Marvell Gives Google Option To Buy $12.2 Billion Stake In Custom AI Chip Deal — — Marvell Technology will help design Google's next-generation custom AI chips and has issued the Alphabet unit a warrant to buy up to $12.2 billion in...
- Google Gemini App Crosses 1 Billion Monthly Users, Pichai Says — — Google's Gemini app has crossed one billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's hist...
- Google Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash At Half Price To Chase AI Agents — — Google's new Gemini 3.7 Flash beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on FrontierCode and DeepSWE, and launches at 50% off the price of the model it r...
- Sundar Pichai Says Gemini App Has Crossed 1 Billion Monthly Users — — Sundar Pichai says Google's Gemini app now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, catching ChatGPT's mark and generating 150 million images a d...
- Demis Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Chase AGI as Alphabet Chief Scientist — — Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu and becoming Alphabet’s chief scientist, while veterans Jeff Dean...
- Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — — Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash lands with 17% fewer output tokens and higher coding scores, alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50 and a security-tuned 3....
- LG Energy Solution Wins Battery Deal For Google's 2.9 GWh Steel River Center — — LG Energy Solution will supply its U.S.-built JF2 DC Link LFP energy storage systems for Google and Cypress Creek Energy's Steel River project — Googl...
- Google Snaps Up Entire 1.6GW Steel River Solar Output Under Arkansas vPPA — — Google will take 100% of the initial 1.6GW output from Cypress Creek Energy's 2.45GW Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, the largest US solar-plus-...
- Waymo Launches Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, With San Diego, Denver and Tampa Next — — Waymo kicked off driverless commercial rides in Las Vegas on July 8, and confirmed San Diego, Denver and Tampa will follow — a coast-to-coast push tow...
- White House Nears Voluntary AI Standards for Frontier Models — — The White House is finalizing voluntary standards for frontier AI model releases with major labs, the FT reports, with Google in talks ahead of its co...
- Waymo and Uber Quietly End Their Robotaxi Tie-Up in Phoenix — — Waymo and Uber have ended their nearly three-year robotaxi partnership in Phoenix, with Waymo folding the vehicles back into its own fleet as the two...
- Intrinsic Debuts Intelligence Cell to End Manual Robot Coding — — Google-owned Intrinsic showed its Intelligence Cell at Automate 2026, a software-first robotic workcell that swaps hand-written code for AI-driven, sk...
- Google to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for Compute at Colossus 1 — — Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs from October 2026 through June 2029, expanding the Memphis Coloss...