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Google slashes AI Plus to $4.99, doubles storage, ignites price war

Google reduces Google AI Plus to $4.99/month and doubles quota to 400 GB, signaling the U.S. adoption of aggressive, emerging-market pricing that pressures standalone AI IPO valuations.

Jun 10, 20264 min read

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Technology

Google Info Sec Engineer Faces Commodities Fraud Charge for $1.2M Polymarket Win

A Google engineer faces federal charges for using confidential search data to win $1.2 million on a Polymarket bet. Prosecutors test whether prediction markets trigger commodities fraud statutes.

May 28, 20263 min read

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Design

Google Retires Fitbit App for AI Coach, Breaking User Workflows

Google has folded the Fitbit app into Google Health, pushing an AI coach to the foreground and burying raw metrics behind nested menus. The rollout breaks third-party sync and signals a closed-loop platform optimized for new hardware.

May 26, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

Google didn't acquire Contextual AI. It took the team and the tech — the new playbook.

Google DeepMind is paying ~$80–90M to hire 20+ Contextual AI researchers (incl. Douwe Kiela) and license the tech — without acquiring the company. The same antitrust-dodging acqui-hire it ran with Windsurf, Character, and Hume.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

Google's $100/month AI tier is the real story from I/O — the bundle war begins.

Buried in Google I/O was the number that matters: $100/month for AI Ultra and the always-on Gemini Spark agent. Google isn't selling a chatbot — it's selling a bundle OpenAI can't match.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

Google's I/O 2026 bet: don't win the model race, own the rails agents run on.

Gemini 3.5 was the headline; the strategy was everything around it — Antigravity, Managed Agents, and WebMCP. Google isn’t racing to the best model. It’s making sure agents run on its browser, OS, and cloud.

May 22, 20263 min read