Global internet traffic rose 19% this year as people rely more on tech for daily communication and entertainment, new report finds.

Google has purged dozens of AI -generated videos from YouTube that involved characters from Disney properties, according to Variety. The move follows a cease-and-desist letter Disney sent to Google on Wednesday, the evening before Disney announced a $1 billion deal with OpenAI.

CC, which joins other Google agents for things like coding, shopping, and web browsing in Chrome, is remarkably similar to ChatGPT Pulse, a personalized briefing tool OpenAI launched back in September. CEO Sam Altman described Pulse as his “favorite feature we’ve launched in a long time.”

Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free help in the Google app.

OpenAI would eat Google’s lunch. ChatGPT was the future of search, and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was a lumbering giant about to be disrupted. Fast forward to December 2025, and the story has flipped. Google just delivered its first $100 billion quarter,

OpenAI announced a new version of ChatGPT Images on Tuesday, powered by a new flagship AI image generation model. It rolls out today.

You might've heard "Madame Morrible, flip it around, Wicked Witch" on your social media lately. Now Google is getting in on the viral meme.