Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is joining Silicon Valley executives bidding for a London-based cricket team, according to people familiar with the matter.

Online users shared a made-up story about the Indian-born executive. The story originated in YouTube videos created with artificial-intelligence.

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will now deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press in the tech giant’s first such deal with a news publisher.

The two parties are now broadening their collaboration to give the Gemini app a boost. Google announced in a blog post that it is expanding its partnership with the news outlet to provide a “feed of real-time information” to the Gemini app.

Instead of a $20 or $30 standalone plan, Google added a few dollars to its business tiers and applied the Gemini generative AI to all plans.

There is a catch, though: as it makes this change, Google is increasing the price of all Workspace plans. Jerry Dischler, Google’s president of cloud applications, tells me companies will pay roughly $2 more per month per user for the AI-enabled Workspace than they were paying before.

Google is extending Gemini features to all Workspace subscribers and increasing the price of all Business and Enterprise plans.

Google is partnering with The Associated Press to bring real-time information from the news agency to its Gemini app, the search giant announced on Wednesday. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

YouTube and Google, together with Google.org, are contributing $15 million toward relief efforts aiding those impacted by the Los Angeles-area wildfires. The contribution will go to organizations including Emergency Network Los Angeles,

YouTube and parent Google said Wednesday they are contributing $15 million to organizations providing relief efforts during the ongoing L.A. wildfires. Along with charitable arm Google.org, the tech giants are giving funds to Emergency Network Los Angeles,