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Global technology company owning DeepMind and Google AI. Developer of Gemini models and major cloud provider.

Recent News about Google

• Disney escalates AI copyright fight with cease-and-desist against Google over Gemini and generative tools

  Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter accusing Google of large-scale copyright infringement tied to generative AI outputs and alleged use of Disney works in AI development and distribution. The dispute spotlights a widening enforcement trend by major rights holders that combines legal pressure with demands for transparency on training data and stronger safeguards against infringing outputs. Coming alongside Disney’s licensed partnership with OpenAI, the move suggests studios may be converging on a dual strategy: monetize opt-in licensing while litigating or threatening action against unlicensed AI use. For AI platform operators, the case raises the stakes for dataset governance, output filtering, and product-level indemnity/controls as generative content becomes more deeply embedded in consumer platforms.

  Source: The Verge2025-12-11T17:02:00.000Z

• TIME names the 'Architects of AI' as its 2025 Person of the Year

  TIME magazine selected the 'Architects of AI'—key figures behind modern AI systems—as its 2025 Person of the Year, highlighting how tools like ChatGPT and frontier models have reshaped the global economy, politics and daily life. The package and global TV coverage emphasize both the boom in AI investment and deployment and mounting anxieties over misinformation, job disruption and concentrated tech power. ([time.com](https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/))

  Source: TIME2025-12-11T14:08:15.033Z

• US state attorneys general demand AI giants fix 'delusional' chatbot outputs

  A coalition of 42 US state and territory attorneys general sent an open letter to major AI firms including Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Apple and xAI, warning that 'delusional' or sycophantic chatbot outputs linked to suicides and other harms could violate state laws. They urge companies to add incident reporting, allow independent pre‑release audits, and strengthen safeguards for children and vulnerable users, intensifying state‑level pressure on the AI industry’s safety practices. ([computerworld.com](https://www.computerworld.com/article/4104761/us-state-attorneys-general-ask-ai-giants-to-fix-delusional-outputs.html))

  Source: Silicon UK2025-12-11T11:00:00.000Z

• UK government and Google DeepMind launch partnership to apply AI to science, clean energy and public services

  The UK government has announced a wide‑ranging partnership with Google DeepMind that includes establishing the company’s first automated AI research lab in the UK, focusing initially on new superconducting materials to support cheaper medical imaging and more efficient chips. The agreement will give British scientists priority access to advanced DeepMind tools, explore a "Gemini for Government" system to cut bureaucracy, and deepen collaboration with the UK’s AI Security Institute to ensure AI is developed and deployed safely across critical sectors.

  Source: GOV.UK (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)2025-12-11T06:07:13.834Z

• Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open‑weight models from leading AI providers

  Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Bedrock with 18 additional fully managed open‑weight models from providers including Mistral AI (Mistral Large 3 and the Ministral 3 series), Google (Gemma 3), Moonshot AI (Kimi K2 Thinking), MiniMax (MiniMax M2), NVIDIA (Nemotron), OpenAI (GPT OSS Safeguard) and Qwen. The move brings Bedrock’s catalog to nearly 100 serverless models, reinforcing AWS’s strategy of offering enterprises a broad, switchable model lineup for agentic workflows, multimodal reasoning, coding assistance and content safety without changing application code.

  Source: PR Newswire Asia (PRNASIA)2025-12-11T02:23:00.000Z

• Telstra revives 'Free Calls to Santa' using Google Cloud AI and Gemini for live Santa conversations

  Google’s Australia blog reports that Telstra’s "Free Calls to Santa" hotline is back, letting children dial a special code from more than 14,000 payphones across Australia to speak with an AI-powered Santa. Behind the scenes, the experience uses Google Cloud’s Customer Engagement Suite and Gemini with a custom Santa voice plus strong guardrails and prompt design to generate unique, real‑time and age‑appropriate conversations, illustrating a playful but large-scale deployment of generative AI in consumer telecom services.

  Source: Google Australia Blog2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

• EU opens antitrust investigation into Google’s use of publisher and YouTube content for AI

  The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google over allegations that it uses content from web publishers and YouTube creators to train and power its AI services, including AI Overviews and other Gemini-based features, without adequate compensation or a meaningful opt-out. Regulators will examine whether Google’s practices impose unfair terms on publishers and disadvantage rival AI developers who are barred from using YouTube data, raising wider concerns about media pluralism and cultural markets in the AI era.

  Source: Tunisie Numerique2025-12-10T06:06:43.909Z

• Google adds a second AI "alignment critic" to secure Gemini-powered Chrome browsing

  Google is deploying a second AI model inside Chrome’s Gemini-powered browsing agent that acts as a “user alignment critic” to review proposed actions before they are executed. The design, detailed in a company security blog and highlighted by Computerworld, aims to mitigate indirect prompt injection attacks by isolating the critic from untrusted web content, restricting which sites the agent can act on, and adding additional gating and confirmation for sensitive operations such as banking or medical sites.

  Source: Computerworld2025-12-09T18:09:09.921Z

• Pentagon selects Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government to power new GenAI.mil platform

  The U.S. Department of War launched GenAI.mil, a department‑wide generative AI platform that will use Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government as its first enterprise AI system. The IL5‑authorized service will give roughly 3 million civilian and military personnel access to tools for summarizing policy handbooks, generating compliance checklists, drafting risk assessments and analyzing imagery and video, with the Pentagon emphasizing data sovereignty and that its data will not be used to train Google’s public models.

  Source: Google Cloud Press Corner2025-12-09T18:09:07.430Z

• Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation with backing from Anthropic, OpenAI and Block

  The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new directed fund to steward open standards and infrastructure for agentic AI systems. Founding contributions include Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md spec, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg and Cloudflare, aiming to make AI agents interoperable, vendor‑neutral and safer at scale.

  Source: PR Newswire2025-12-09T17:00:00.000Z