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The US gets the worst phones

Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they’ve done so for years. Together with Google, they’ve shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they’ve sat back, content to iterate rather than […]

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Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of compute over five years, bringing its total commitment to ~$43B. The deal arrives as Anthropic’s revenue hit $30B ARR (up from $1B in January 2025) and its secondary market valuation […]

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Google’s handsome Pixel Watch 4 is on sale for $40 off in both size configurations

Spring has sprung, as they say, and to mark the occasion, Google is running a spring-centric promo until Sunday, April 26th. The limited-time discounts apply to a number of Google’s first-party devices, from the Pixel 10 Pro to the Pixel Buds Pro 2, as well as the wearables like the Pixel Watch 4. In fact, […]

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The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot have Android to itself

The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first to be broken before it sets. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what Alphabet must do to […]

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Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace, and on-device AI APIs via Gemini Nano. Chrome Enterprise Premium at $6/user/month adds real-time DLP, data masking, and AI governance […]

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