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From a quiet push to write the industry’s AI safety rules to a deal paying around 100 publishers for AI Overviews, this month’s top Google stories show a company trying to set the terms of the AI race while its rivals keep pressing.

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Key highlights:

• Anthropic, OpenAI and Google staff have been meeting on an AI safety standards body.
• Google is paying about 100 publishers for AI Overviews.
• Google DeepMind’s CEO explains how its robotics strategy differs from Tesla’s.

Writing the AI Rulebook

Exclusive Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Quietly Discussed an AI Safety Standards Body By Leo Schwartz

Exclusive Google, OpenAI and Anthropic AI Safety Group Takes Shape By Leo Schwartz and Stephanie Palazzolo

Anthropic Splits From Google, OpenAI Over State AI Safety Bill By Leo Schwartz

Applied AI Same Flaw Found in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot By Aaron Holmes and Laura Bratton

Google Under Pressure

Exclusive Google Is Paying About 100 Digital Publishers for AI Overviews By Alix Coutures and Catherine Perloff

The Briefing Google’s (Small) Antitrust Victory and Microsoft’s Azure Shift By Martin Peers

Google’s AI Catch-Up Game

Applied AI Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers By Kevin McLaughlin

AI Agenda Google DeepMind Exec Says Unprecedented Capex Is Actually a Bet On ‘RSI’ By Amir Efrati

Exclusive Google Nears Release of Flagship Gemini 4 AI Model By Laura Bratton

Applied AI In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple By Jessica E. Lessin

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