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Google is investing roughly $75 million in independent film studio A24 under a new artificial intelligence research partnership built around its DeepMind division. Key Points: Google is putting about $75 million into A24 through a DeepMind research partnership. The deal excludes A24's film and telev

Character AI suffered a major global outage on June 17, 2026, taking the platform offline for users across multiple regions. The disruption triggered a sharp spike in search activity, with Google Trends data showing query volumes reaching 4,650 for "is character ai down" and 3,900 for "character ai

Three of Google's earliest outside bets, in SpaceX, Anthropic and Waymo, now carry a combined value above $350 billion after a record stock market debut. Key Points: Google paid about $900 million for a SpaceX stake in 2015 that is now worth roughly $140 billion. The company holds close to 14% of An

Anthropic, freshly valued at $965 billion, is asking rival Google to financially guarantee its US data center lease payments as it builds out compute ahead of a public listing. Key Points: Anthropic has signed more than a dozen preliminary leases for US data centers topping 1 gigawatt of capacity. E

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma on June 10, 2026, a new text-generation model that produces text in parallel blocks rather than sequentially. The company says it reaches up to 1,000 tokens per second on Nvidia GPU hardware. According to a report, DeepMind's benchmarks show DiffusionGemma run