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• [New] The digital services tax will hit companies including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb with a 3% levy on revenue from Canadian users. Economic Times
• [New] Giant companies like Amazon, Apple, Airbnb, Google, Meta and Uber will be taxed 3% on the money they make from Canadian users and customers. CBC
• [New] Alphabet, the parent company of Google, faces a bigger competitive threat from Meta than ChatGPT, as the tech giants race to dominate the space for AI chatbot assistants and wearable hardware for consumers. Morgan Stanley Australia
• [New] Competitive Threat: A consumer-grade AI device from OpenAI, powered by Apple's silicon, could directly challenge conventional smart speakers and virtual-assistant platforms, raising the stakes for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby. News, Events, Advertising Options
• [New] Automated marketing campaigns: Machine learning algorithms will personalize ads, optimize budgets, and increase ROI across platforms like Facebook and Google. Blogger
• [New] The digital services tax will hit companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb with a 3% levy on revenue from Canadian users. CBC
• [New] AI Integration is another future focus: Google is embedding AI features (like the new Google Assistant with Bard AI, Pixel's AI photo editing, etc.) deeply into Android; Apple is more conservative but could leverage its powerful chips for on-device AI that keeps data private. DesignRush
• [New] Google has developed a new AI weather model that can help forecast tropical cyclones and is partnering with the National Hurricane Center to make their models available to forecasters for testing. ABC News
• [New] Lifestyle publishers are especially at risk of losing large swaths of their audience from the generative AI features Google is adding to its search engine. Digiday
• Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution with no additional execution privileges needed. Center for Internet Security
• Google Maps and GPS Issues Amid Fuel Shortages: Disruptions to Google Maps and GPS led to people getting lost while trying to leave cities, compounded by existing fuel shortages. Filterwatch -
• If Google makes AI Mode the default in its current form, it's going to have a devastating impact on the internet - Lily Ray People use Google Search five trillion times a year - it defines the shape of the internet. Xtending Digital Narrative (Jhave's Ai links)
• By using Google Calendar events for command-and-control (C2) operations, threat actors like APT41 can blend malicious activity with legitimate traffic, making detection difficult. Vercara
• Chinese state-sponsored threat actor APT41 has developed a novel command-and-control (C2) technique using Google Calendar events to evade detection, targeting Taiwanese government entities through Spearphishing and cloud-based malware delivery. Vercara
• Alphabet's Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup. CNBC
• Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are projected to collectively invest $371 billion in Al data centers and computing resources in 2025, a 44% increase from the previous year. Magzter
• Thales, a global leader in technology and security, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to develop new data security capabilities powered by generative AI that will improve companies' ability to discover, classify and protect their most sensitive data. Thales Cloud Security Products
• Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are already investing heavily in AI agent technology, and it's likely that we will see even more innovation in the coming years. SuperAGI
• The embedding of artificial intelligence into the search journey stands to disrupt ad revenue models, but Google's dominance in search advertising will likely persist in the near term, aided by SMEs. B&T
• CoreWeave has secured a major partnership involving Google and OpenAI, supplying GPU-based cloud capacity to Google Cloud will then sell it to OpenAI to meet its rising AI demands. The Economic Times
• Meta's investment calls into question whether Scale AI will continue supplying data to OpenAI and Google, two of its major clients. Time
• Google's acquisition of LangMind aligns with its commitment to AI innovation and could potentially enhance its language-based products and services, such as Google Translate and Google Assistant. Code With Code
• OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's Google Cloud service to meet its growing computing capacity needs. The Week

Last updated: 29 June 2025