# Google

[https://timesof.ai/platform/google](https://timesof.ai/platform/google)

Google (including DeepMind) conducts foundational AI research and deploys models across search, cloud, and consumer products.

Google combines massive scale with deep research through DeepMind and Google Research.

## Coverage

- [Google's First Gemini Glasses Go on Preorder at $395, Betting That Privacy Limits Will Sell an AI Camera on Your Face](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-samsung-gemini-intelligent-eyewear-preorders-395-december-10) — Google's Gemini Intelligent Eyewear with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster is on preorder from $395, shipping Dec 10 in the US and South Korea.
- [Google's Cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen Scores 51 on an Independent Index, Though at Its Top Setting It Still Ranks 16th](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-gemini-4-hydrogen-everyday-agent-model-1-50-7-50) — Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen targets coding and agent work at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens. Artificial Analysis scores it 51 (high) and 54 (xhigh).
- [Nonprofits Ask a California Court to Freeze Frontier AI, Using the Labs' Own Risk Warnings as Their Evidence](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nonprofits-sue-to-freeze-frontier-ai-anthropic-google-meta-openai-xai) — Public Citizen and three other groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco, seeking to freeze more capable AI under California law.
- [DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 Narrows DNA Predictions From Whole Tissues to Single Cell Types](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/deepmind-alphagenome-2-cell-type-dna-variant-predictions) — AlphaGenome 2 predicts how DNA variants act in specific cell types; DeepMind says it finds nearly twice as many expression-changing variants. Research use only.
- [Google's New Gemini Model Doesn't Write Answers, It Picks Them: Decision 1 Scores Up to 1,000 Questions for $0.10 per Million Tokens](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-gemini-decisions-api-decision-1-closed-set-choices) — Google's Gemini Decisions API scores yes/no, choice and rubric questions with confidence scores at $0.10/M input tokens. An independent index ranks it 9th of 18.
- [DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 Hit 96% on a Mercedes-Benz Kitting Pilot. The Last 4% Is the Hard Part](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-5-mercedes-apollo-96-percent-kitting) — DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 let Apptronik's Apollo 2 sort Mercedes-Benz parts at 96% success in a pilot; partner-only release, DeepMind's own figures.
- [Anthropic Puts Claude Inside the Meeting, the Spreadsheet and the Whiteboard, Moving Onto Ground Microsoft and Google Already Hold](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/anthropic-claude-meetings-sheets-whiteboards-office-suite-beta) — Claude Meetings joins Google Meet calls in beta for Team and Enterprise; Claude Sheets and Whiteboards reach paid plans in beta; Claude Data is now GA.
- [Adobe Opens Photoshop and Premiere to Outside AI Agents, Betting Creatives Will Keep the Files Even if They Switch Assistants](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/adobe-max-creative-cloud-mcp-third-party-agents-always-on) — Adobe will let OpenAI, Google and Anthropic agents edit native Photoshop and Premiere files via local MCP, private beta early 2027, and previews always-on agents.
- [Google DeepMind Says AI Agents Proved Signal's Actual Encryption Code Secure in Four Weeks, With Humans Writing What to Prove](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/deepmind-alphaproof-code-formally-verifies-signal-protocol-lean) — DeepMind says Gemini agents proved Signal's protocol code meets expert-written security specs in four weeks, catching two reintroduced bugs. Research result, not a product.
- [Anthropic's IPO Draws About Six Times the Orders It Can Fill, Bloomberg Reports, With Trading Set for November 19](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/anthropic-ipo-price-range-70-78-1-4-trillion-chipmakers-26b) — Bloomberg: Anthropic's $70-$78 IPO drew about six times the shares on offer, existing backers first. Pricing Nov. 18, Nasdaq trading as ANT on Nov. 19.
- [Banks Grow Wary of More AI Debt, Even With Anthropic or Google Behind It, Reuters Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/banks-credit-investors-wary-ai-debt-selloff-reuters) — Reuters: some banks are reluctant to fund more AI deals even with Anthropic or Google backstops, per unnamed sources. Lenders now probe contract exit terms.
- [Google Splits Its Eighth-Generation TPU Into Four Systems, Adding a Confidential-Computing Chip and a Dual-Die Long-Context Part](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-tpu-8tx-8i-max-confidential-long-context) — Google's TPU 8tx targets confidential inference and TPU 8i Max doubles 8i compute and HBM bandwidth, Google says. No prices, dates or independent benchmarks yet.
- [Google Makes Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Generally Available With 15-Second Clips and a 30% Price Cut](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-gemini-omni-1-2-flash-generally-available) — Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is GA on API and Google Cloud: 15-second clips, $0.07/s at 720p (−30%), multi-turn edits, SynthID, Provisioned Throughput.
- [EU Court Adviser Says Chatbot Answers Can Infringe Press Publishers' Rights, While AI Training Is Generally Allowed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/eu-court-adviser-chatbot-answers-can-infringe-press-publishers-gemini) — CJEU Advocate General Szpunar says Gemini-style answers can infringe press publishers' rights in some cases; training generally falls under the TDM exception.
- [Apple Cuts Some Engineers' Daily AI Budgets to $200 From $300 and Plans Deeper Cuts, Bloomberg Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/apple-cuts-engineers-daily-ai-budgets-300-to-200) — Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending caps to $200 from $300 and may go to $100, Bloomberg reports. Other teams could drop to $25 a day.
- [OpenAI Says ChatGPT Now Handles About a Fifth of Google's Search Volume, Counting Every Question That Triggers a Web Search](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/openai-chatgpt-search-volume-fifth-of-google-1-2b-weekly-users) — OpenAI's Adam Fry says ChatGPT's search-like queries equal about a fifth of Google's and that weekly users rose from 1 billion to 1.2 billion in 60 days.
- [Google DeepMind Staff Push to Scrap Lifetime Non-Disparagement Clauses That They Say Keep Them From Warning About AI Risks](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-deepmind-staff-push-to-end-lifetime-non-disparagement-clauses) — Google DeepMind employees want lifetime non-disparagement clauses removed so they can warn about AI risks, the Post reports. Google says it doesn't enforce them on ex-staff.
- [Google Will Backstop Anthropic's $19B of Kentucky Leases With TeraWulf, Covering Rent if Anthropic Defaults](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-backstops-terawulf-anthropic-19b-kentucky-leases) — Google signed credit support for Anthropic's ~$19B TeraWulf leases in Kentucky. On default it can pay rent and assume the lease or pay a termination fee, the 8-K says.
- [WIRED Finds a Network of More Than 400 Apps and Domains That Hid Sexual Deepfake Generators Inside Pet-Portrait and Language Apps on Apple's and Google's Stores](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/wired-400-app-network-hid-nudify-deepfake-tools-app-store-play) — More than 400 linked apps and domains posing as pet-portrait and language tools hid explicit deepfake generators, WIRED reports. Apple pulled 19; Meta acted on 11,600 ad accounts.
- [Google Will Switch Off AI in K-12 Student Accounts Unless Schools Opt In, but Schools That Refuse AI Will Lose Google Search in Those Accounts Too](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-k12-ai-opt-in-schools-that-block-ai-lose-search) — Google will make AI opt-in for K-12 student accounts, but schools that block AI will also lose Google Search in those accounts, its education chief says. Changes start early 2027.
- [SemiAnalysis Launches GDPx, a 206-Task Agent Benchmark Where the Best Model, Claude Opus 5.5, Scores 12%](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/semianalysis-gdpx-benchmark-opus-5-5-tops-at-12-percent) — SemiAnalysis's GDPx benchmark tests models on 206 agentic tasks in 11 domains. Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0; Gemini 4 Carbon and GPT-6 Astra follow.
- [Google Makes the Gemini API's Computer Use Tool Generally Available](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/gemini-api-computer-use-generally-available) — Google moved the Gemini API's Computer Use tool to GA on October 30, with Gemini 4 Argon and 3.8 Flash among supported models and opt-in injection scanning.
- [Cisco Talos Finds an Infostealer That Asks an LLM to Rank Each Victim's Worth, and Fails Over When the Model Refuses](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/cisco-talos-volta-infostealer-llm-ranks-victims-refusal-fallback) — Cisco Talos says VOLTA sends stolen-data dossiers to Claude Opus 4.6, falling back to Kimi K2 and Gemini 2.5 Flash on refusal, to rank victims.
- [Anthropic Says an Unreleased Model Built Five Working Exploit Chains, and Google Has Patched 62 Chrome Flaws From the Work](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/anthropic-unreleased-model-five-exploit-chains-62-chrome-cves) — Anthropic says an unreleased model wrote five exploit chains across Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux. Vendors have patched; the human share is not given.