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| 2025 | By 2025, the 'Latest in the Area' feed became the default opening screen when launching the Google Maps app, further emphasizing its social and discovery-oriented features. |
| May 31 2025 | Current date of this document review |
| 2025 | Google announced SynthID Detector, a tool designed to identify AI-generated content from Google products using watermarking technology across text, images, audio, and video. |
| May 2025 | Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that uses Large Language Models like Gemini to design and optimize algorithms. The system can generate variations of algorithms, combine them, and select the best candidates through iterative processes. |
| May 2025 | Google announced Veo 3, which can generate both video and audio. |
| May 2025 | A new favicon was launched with a capital 'G' in Google's custom logo font, featuring colored segments of red, yellow, green, and blue. A gradient between the colored segments was added to the design. |
| May 12 2025 | Google transitioned to a new logo design featuring a gradient-based approach, replacing the previous solid-block design. |
| May 2025 | A Brazilian tourist was misdirected by Google Maps while driving from Perito Moreno to El Calafate, getting stranded on an unpaved section of Santa Cruz's 29 highway during a snowstorm. He was forced to walk for five hours in freezing weather before being rescued by local police. |
| 2025 | 300 London-based Google DeepMind employees unionized with the Communication Workers Union in response to Google dropping its pledge not to develop AI that could be used for 'harm' and concerns over the Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. |
| April 2025 | Trial scheduled to determine remedies sought by the Department of Justice to address Google's illegal monopoly, potentially including breaking up the company or preventing it from using data to secure AI sector dominance. |
| April 23 2025 | YouTube celebrates its 20th anniversary by displaying a cake icon on the first-ever YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo'. |
| April 2025 | Google Maps updated its display to more prominently label the 'West Philippine Sea' in parts of the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines. The decision was praised by Filipino officials but criticized by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. |
| 2025 | Google Assistant is scheduled to be retired from mobile, tablets, smartwatches, headphones, and cars, with Google Gemini planned to replace it. |
| April 17 2025 | In the case United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google violated antitrust law, finding the company willfully engaged in anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in publisher ad server and ad exchange markets. |
| April 2025 | Google announced Veo 2 is now available in Gemini App for Advanced Users and Gemini Artificial Intelligence Studio, free for all users. |
| April 2025 | Google introduced DolphinGemma, a research AI model designed to potentially decode dolphin communication by learning the structure of dolphin vocalizations and generating novel dolphin-like sound sequences. |
| April 2025 | Google DeepMind announced Lyria, a text-to-music model, and Chirp 3, a voice-cloning feature capable of synthesizing speech in approximately 35 languages, at the Google Cloud Next Conference. |
| March 2025 | Google introduced TxGemma, an open-source model designed to improve efficiency in therapeutics development. |
| March 30 2025 | Google URL Shortener is scheduled to completely stop working, marking the end of its URL shortening service after being phased out since 2018. |
| March 2025 | Google agreed to acquire Wiz, a New York-based cybersecurity startup focusing on cloud computing, for $32 billion USD, marking its largest ever acquisition. |
| March 2025 | Google introduced an experimental 'AI Mode' within its Search platform, leveraging the Gemini 2.0 model. The feature enables complex, multi-part query processing with comprehensive AI-generated responses, initially available to Google One AI Premium subscribers in the United States through Search Labs. |
| March 25 2025 | Google released Gemini 2.5, a reasoning model that pauses to 'think' before responding. Google announced that all future models will incorporate reasoning capabilities. |
| March 19 2025 | Google announced the Pixel 9a mid-range smartphone through a blog post, featuring a 6.3" OLED display, Google Tensor G4 processor, and options for 128 GB or 256 GB storage with 8 GB RAM. |
| March 19 2025 | Pixel 9a scheduled for announcement, continuing Google's mid-range smartphone strategy. |
| March 2025 | Google released Gemma 3, described as the most capable model that can run on a single GPU, available in four sizes: 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameters. |
| March 14 2025 | Google announces that Assistant will stop working on Android devices using Android 10 and higher, iOS, and other devices like Google Nest, with Gemini mostly replacing it. Assistant will remain functional on low-range phones or devices running Android 9 'Pie' and lower. |
| March 2025 | DeepMind launched two AI robotics models: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, designed to enhance robotic interaction with the physical world. |
| March 13 2025 | Google initiated the March 2025 Core Update, estimated to take up to two weeks to complete. |
| February 2025 | Google announced it would change all parks labeled 'state parks' in Canada to 'provincial parks', a move criticized by Canadian officials including British Columbia's environment minister Tamara Davidson. |
| February 2025 | Google disabled user reviews following the Gulf of Mexico name change, with BBC News reporting that some negative reviews were deleted. |
| February 2025 | Users began criticizing Google's rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in its Calendar events. |
| February 2025 | Google announced the end of its minority recruitment targets and a reevaluation of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. |
| February 2025 | DeepMind launched PaliGemma 2 Mix, a multi-task fine-tuned vision-language model available in 3B, 10B, and 28B parameter versions with 224px and 448px resolutions. |
| February 2025 | Google Maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' for US users, following Donald Trump's Executive Order 14172. The change sparked controversy, with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum criticizing the decision and requesting Google to reconsider. |
| January 2025 | Chrome Apps were shut down on ChromeOS. |
| January 9 2025 | Used the colorless logo for the death and funeral of Jimmy Carter. |
| January 2025 | A U.S. federal judge rejected Google's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user data collection from individuals who had opted out of tracking. The lawsuit is set to proceed to trial in August 2025. |
| 2024 | U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began placing Google under stricter oversight due to its growing role in payments and financial data. |
| 2024 | Google discontinued Google Jamboard, another component of the Docs Editors suite. |
| 2024 | The GDE community became more globally diverse, with a growing number of experts from Asia, Africa, and Latin America joining the program. |
| 2024 | The Doodlers team had created over 5,000 Doodles for Google's homepages worldwide. |
| 2024 | Upcoming theatrical release of 'Mean Girls' musical film, which activates a Google Search Easter egg allowing users to interact with a 'Burn Book' themed interface |
| 2024 | Google continues to update Chrome Experiments, adding new categories including VR and AR experiments, and AI-powered interactive experiences to showcase innovative web technologies. |
| 2024 | Google Arts & Culture added major new locations to its platform, expanding its digital collection and accessibility of cultural content. |
| 2024 | Google began rolling out artificial intelligence features to select users of Google Drive and Workspace tools, powered by its Gemini LLM. These features are initially available to Google One AI Premium subscribers and organizational users with specific Gemini add-ons. |
| 2024 | The Kremlin imposed an unprecedented fine on Google for removal of news sources, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov highlighting the massive scale of the fine, which was so large that he admitted he could not even pronounce the total amount of two undecillion roubles. |
| 2024 | A Google accelerator program was reported to have provided support to a Chinese company supplying surveillance equipment to police in China. |
| 2024 | Small website owners criticized Google for prioritizing Google Shopping results over their content-rich websites in search rankings. |
| 2024 | Google Ads introduced AI-powered tools, including the 'Ads Power Pair' of Search and Performance Max, designed to improve campaign efficiency using first-party data, machine learning, and automated asset creation. |
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