Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ emails, chats and documents, paying $10 million for the materials. The records are associated with Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. The available information identifies the purchased materials as emails, chats and documents. It does not specify the date range of the records, the number of files involved, how Google plans to use them, or whether the materials include customer, employee or operational data.

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced changes within Google DeepMind, including new roles for Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu. Pichai emphasized the company's progress in delivering a comprehensive AI stack, highlighting its talent, computing power, and widespread AI product offerings.

Google holds $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, representing approximately a 6% stake in the company. Of this amount, $80 billion is subject to short-term sale restrictions and $14.1 billion is subject to long-term restrictions until the third quarter of 2027.

Google will shut down the Custom Search API on January 1, 2027. The shutdown notice was issued in January 2026, and the API is currently still operational.

The European Court of Justice upheld a fine of approximately 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) against Google for anti-competitive practices related to its Android mobile operating system. The fine was originally imposed by the European Commission in 2018 for abusing its market dominance to favor its own apps through pre-installation agreements with smartphone manufacturers.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute capacity at SpaceX's data centers, utilizing approximately 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units along with other hardware components. The agreement is effective from October 2023 through June 2029.

Google will discontinue free access to its full web search index for developers by January 2027. New Programmable Search Engines will be limited to searching a maximum of 50 domains, and the "Search the entire web" option will no longer be available for new engines.

Google has signed a classified agreement with the US Department of Defense allowing the use of its AI models for any lawful government purpose. The deal does not grant Google the ability to veto the Pentagon's use of its AI technology.

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, with an initial $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation. The investment will support Anthropic's computing needs and is contingent on performance targets after the release of its latest model, Mythos.