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Meta, Google, and TikTok have filed lawsuits in U.S. federal courts seeking to block California's new law AB 1709. Starting January 2027, it aims to restrict personalized feeds and autoplay videos for users under 16. The companies argue that the restrictions violate freedom of expression.

Google has entered into credit support agreements for TeraWulf's data center project for Anthropic. The rental obligations of the Claude developer are estimated at approximately $19 billion over 20 years. The agreements are expected to facilitate the raising of debt, but do not provide for Google to issue a loan for this amount.

OpenAI estimates the number of search queries in ChatGPT to be roughly one-fifth of Google's volume. However, the company did not disclose the full methodology for the comparison. The audience of ChatGPT reached 1.2 billion people per week. We analyze what the 20% figure means and why it does not equal the search market share.

In the S-1 form filed with the SEC on October 26, 2026, Anthropic disclosed an option for Alphabet to purchase up to $10 billion in Class N shares at the IPO price. These shares carry no voting rights until sold to unaffiliated parties. The offering may potentially take place in November.

The National Assembly of France approved an amendment on internet traffic tax for French users on October 30: 11 votes in favor, 10 against. Content providers would pay €0.055 per gigabyte with a cap of 15% of revenue in France. The law still needs to pass the Senate.

Google has unveiled the first haiku written by the Suncatcher satellite from Earth's orbit.

Steve Huffman stated that AI Overviews and AI Mode do not bring visitors: in October, Reddit missed more than a million clicks per week. The audience in the United States decreased by 2% for the first time since the IPO, to 50.7 million. The shares fell by 22% in the premarket.

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. The model is stronger than its predecessor in cybersecurity and long-term tasks, while starting at the same price: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. After the introductory period, the price will rise to $4 and $20.

On October 28, Google will unveil Google Multi-Party Compute – a system for storing and transferring cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets for financial organizations. The product is currently undergoing closed testing, with a commercial launch planned for early 2027.

Google DeepMind has unveiled a new model, Genie 4, capable of creating interactive virtual worlds in real-time with enhanced physics and sound effects.