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Google is an American technology company whose businesses include online search, Android, Chrome, Workspace, cloud computing and artificial intelligence through the Gemini family.
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Google's next AI infrastructure bottleneck is electricity, and AEP is spending $4 billion to address it
The race to build AI data centers increasingly depends on securing power before installing processors. American Electric Power has announced plans to spend approximately $4 billion on a 702-megawatt fuel-cell facility near Cheyenne, Wyoming, with Google committed to buying its output for twenty years. The project marks another step toward treating electricity generation as a fundamental part of large-scale computing infrastructure.
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Google is making AI Search links harder to miss. Publishers still need proof that people will click
The defining promise of Google's AI-powered search is convenience: ask a question and get a useful answer without navigating through several websites. For publishers, that convenience carries a potential cost. Google's October 15 announcement attempts to rebalance the experience by giving external links greater prominence. The difficulty is determining whether better visibility will translate into meaningful visits.
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Google Is Building Cloud AI Memory It Says It Won't Hold the Keys To
A truly personal AI eventually has to remember something. Google DeepMind is therefore adding the architecture for persistent memory to Private AI Compute, its confidential cloud-computing system. The information would live on servers, but Google wants the keys that unlock it to remain on the user's devices.
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Gemini Connects 14 More Apps as Google Pushes Work Into the Conversation
Gemini is adding fourteen third-party services to its Connected Apps system. Some mainly retrieve information, while others can modify data, create documents or act inside a project. Google is also making them easy to invoke: users can call a service with an @ mention directly in the conversation.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps 3.7's price, but Google admits the smarter model may spend more tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash looks cheap if you only read the API price table. Input still costs $0.75 per million tokens and output costs $3.75. The more interesting change is hidden in how the model works: Google explicitly says 3.8 can reason for longer, invoke tools repeatedly and consume additional tokens to improve difficult results.