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Google allows schools to independently toggle Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search after backlash over education AI policies.

Google conditions search access in schools on acceptance of AI Overviews, drawing political criticism over AI adoption leverage.

Google defaults Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search to off in education products; schools can enable individually.

Large language model hijacking attacks, also known as LLMjacking, are generating large fraudulent cloud charges, with some organizations losing more than $100,000 per day. [...]

In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a press event on Monday. He said the company defines a search as any time a user inputs a query that results in a web search, as opposed to tasks like defining a term or a simple how-to explanation. (Fry did not specify the source of the Google search volume number.) Having one-fifth as many searches as ...

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Sources: UK-based Google DeepMind staff urge leaders to drop non-disparagement clauses barring public warnings about AI risks even after they leave the company — Employment contracts deter staff from warning the public about AI risks, current workers said. — SummaryLoading...

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Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told The New York Times. The decision was also shared in a broader education-related update from Google on Tuesday, saying that access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search "will be entirely off" for K-12 student accounts unless "administrators explicitly turn them on." Administrators will not be given the option to toggle Gemini-powered features off without disabling Search, however. Chris Phillips, Google's vice president of education, tells the NYT, "Search and AI are de...

Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is ~20% of Google's — ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry on ChatGPT's growth, the cost of personal agents, and plans to bring Chat and Work together.

New York Times: Google plans to make it easier to restrict its AI tools for students early next year but says schools that block AI entirely will lose student access to Search — Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google's search engine.

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Google launches Dreambeans AI app in India with 13 local languages, expanding its experimental visual storytelling product.

Google expands Dreambeans AI storytelling tool to 13 Indian languages for broader market adoption.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta projected to exceed $720B capex in 2026 for AI infrastructure—3x two-year-ago spending—intensifying investor ROI scrutiny.

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from October 2026

Stratechery analysis: Google's agent investment parallels Facebook's past platform shift, driven by earnings pressure and competitive risk.

Google data center energy exec reports orbital facilities cost 100x more than terrestrial; US power supply adequate but permitting delays slow expansion.

Meta's AI ad targeting grew faster than Google Search revenue in latest quarter, widening competitive gap.

Google reports AI Mode in Search caused 15% revenue decline (~$500B impact), worst drop since 2004 IPO.

Google XLA:TPU compiler verification methodology addresses correctness and numerical stability at hyperscale training.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic adopt unified opt-out standard for AI training data scraping across crawlers.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic adopt IETF policy token standard allowing publishers to opt out of training data scraping via robots.txt.

Google's Suncatcher satellite data center prototype launched October 1; Gemma 4 executed inference in orbit.

Google's Project Suncatcher satellite successfully ran Gemma 4 inference on TPUs in orbit and transmitted response to Earth.

Google's space-based TPU running Gemma 4 demonstrates on-orbit AI inference capability for satellite data centers.

Google DeepMind partners with UK government to deploy AI for accelerating planning decision timelines.

Google and Foxconn target 6-month AI infrastructure deployment cycles, cutting traditional 12-18 month timelines.

Google Gemini now generates and edits Google Docs, Sheets, and PDFs directly within chat interface.

Google reports -$9.06B cash flow from AI search; plans to offset losses via increased advertising inventory.