• The Financial Times reported that Alphabet Inc. Class C (GOOG) and OpenAI have provided AI models and services to groups that are blacklisted by Western authorities in China, per the FT’s coverage.
  • GOOG appealed an Indian court ruling, saying it limits consumer choice and competition, argues keywords trigger ads, and noting the appeal will be heard soon.
  • GOOG: Google released AlphaEvolve AI code-optimization agent to all Google Cloud customers, offering automated code optimization and potential performance and cost improvements for cloud workloads.
  • Alphabet (GOOG) will add an AI disclosure panel to ads: disclosures auto-added in each My Ad Center panel, labels may appear, and advertisers can flag when generative AI was used.