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Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for addictive platform design and child safety failures, awarding $381 million and setting a legal precedent for thousands of pending cases.

Google DeepMind shipped four Gemma 4 model variants on April 2 under the OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license, replacing the restrictive Gemma Terms of Use and removing all barriers to commercial deployment, modification, and redistribution.

Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model brings acoustic awareness, doubled context length, and tool-use capabilities to real-time voice AI, rolling out globally via Gemini Live and Search Live.

Judge Brinkema's ad tech remedy decision is expected any day, while the DOJ appeals Judge Mehta's search ruling and the EU enforces its own fine

Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude both ship tools to import rival chatbot data, signaling that user lock-in is now a front in the AI platform war.

Google's AI design tool gains voice commands, multi-screen generation, and developer tool integrations, triggering a two-day selloff in Figma shares.

A new Extensions system in iOS 27 will let users route Siri queries to Claude, Gemini, and other third-party AI services, replacing the current ChatGPT-only arrangement.

Google Research unveils TurboQuant, a training-free compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by 6x and boosts inference throughput up to 8x, sending SK Hynix and Samsung shares down 5-6 percent.

Google's seven-year open-source hardware security project reaches production in Dell Chromebooks with post-quantum cryptography, and data center deployment planned for later this year.

A New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling child exploitation, and a California bellwether jury found both Meta and YouTube negligent in designing addictive platforms that harmed a minor.

The CMA proposed its first conduct requirements under the UK's new digital markets law, targeting Google's AI Overviews, search ranking, and choice screens, while securing app store commitments from Apple and Google effective April 1.

Samsung has disclosed the first technical details of its Android XR-powered smart glasses, which will ship with a Qualcomm AR1 chipset and integrate Google's Gemini AI assistant. The device enters a market where Meta's Ray-Ban partnership holds an estimated 82 percent share.