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"Having taken into account the feedback received following our proposed decision, we have today designated Google's search services with strategic market status," according to the authority.

The breakup that wasn't supposed to be possible: Publicly, Google has argued that breaking up its ad tech stack would be all but impossible. Privately, it's been mapping out how to do exactly that. Internal documents during the trial revealed that for years, Google has been pressure-testing how a separation might work. "Project Sunday", launched in 2020 and revisited in 2021, explored how to split key components of its ad tech stack within its own infrastructure.

Google upgraded the Try On feature to now support shoes, in addition to other forms of clothing. Plus, Try on will soon also work in Australia, Canada and Japan, Google announced. Google wrote, "Try on's state-of-the-art AI accurately perceives shapes and depths, preserving those subtleties when showing you what something would look like on you. Finally, you can answer the age-old question: "Can I pull off these shoes?."

Google told employees who want health benefits that they must allow a third-party AI healthcare tool to access their data, a move that has rankled some staff members. If they decline it, they will not receive health coverage. The company announced this month that US-based employees who wish to sign up for health benefits through its parent company Alphabet in the coming enrollment period must grant access to AI-powered tools provided by Nayya, which offers personalized benefits recommendations, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider.

On Monday, Google security engineering managers Jason Parsons and Zak Bennett said in a blog post that the new program, an extension of the tech giant's existing Abuse Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP), will incentivize researchers and bug bounty hunters to focus on "high-impact abuse issues and security vulnerabilities" in Google products and services.

"Providing "publishers with these detailed insights, I think, is a good idea," Berntson said Tuesday.

Google is making the gradient "G" its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new logo first began to surface across the Google app on Android and iOS in May, but soon, the design will begin to appear across all of the company's platforms, marking Google's first big logo change in 10 years. Google separated the red, yellow, green, and blue in the colorful "G" logo it introduced in 2015.

With Google's latest feature, you can now ensure Cyclingnews is front and centre when searching for the latest news from the world of cycling. The search engine recently released a 'Preferred Sources' feature, which allows users in the United States and India to optimise their results in Google's Top Stories feature. With the rise of attention-grabbing headlines and unverified information online, it's important to have your favourite, tried-and-tested publications at your fingertips.

As this co-dependence became outwardly obvious, another aspect of their relationship - this one more formal - was being negotiated in private. Google didn't just need Reddit to fill out its search product. It needed Reddit to train its AI models and to provide those models with fresh material to retrieve, summarize, and synthesize once they were deployed in products.

Google has been implementing cost reductions across 2025, including eliminating 35% of managers who oversee teams of three people or fewer, and offering voluntary exit programs across multiple divisions since January. Finance chief Anat Ashkenazi signaled late last year that the company would continue to push cost cuts "a little further," a mandate that appears unchanged despite Alphabet reporting strong Q2 2025 results with $96.4 billion in revenue.