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Google is pushing AI into schools and search before showing it pays like search did
Google will not let schools turn off , the AI summaries at the top of search results, on their own. Starting next year, a school that wants them gone will have to block search itself. Google says it will switch search, Gemini and Gemini Notebook off by default and let schools turn each on, which it calls more choice. Educators object that Google treats the AI summaries as inseparable from search.
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In Alphabet's third quarter, searches grew but search revenue did not keep pace. Search revenue growth slowed from about 17% in the prior quarter to 12%, and paid-click growth slowed from 13% to 8%. Google's chief business officer said AI Mode queries are growing fast but earn less than traditional searches. Shares have fallen about 14% since the report.
The UK government used a figure from a 2023 Google-commissioned report as the economic benefit of AI for almost two years. The UK AI minister admitted that the £400 billion came from that report and said the government's own estimate is £55 billion to £140 billion by 2030, but he did not withdraw the old figure.
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer has called the 2028 presidential election a possible defining moment for AI and laid out policy priorities for politicians. The essay compared politicians who back a data center to the Iraq war authorization vote. In Texas this week, meanwhile, Democratic candidates who made data centers a central issue won the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat, and the governor-elect campaigned for a full moratorium.
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Google will not let schools turn off , the AI-written answers at the top of search results, on their own, and starting next year the only way to get rid of the feature is to block search altogether. Google says search, Gemini and Gemini Notebook will be off by default next year and administrators can turn each one on, which it calls more choice, not less. The complaint from schools and parents is that Google treats AI Overviews and the conversational AI Mode as inseparable from search. Schools are already using workarounds such as altering search URLs and installing browser extensions.
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What schools want to prevent is students reading an AI summary before they have looked at sources and judged for themselves. A Washington University in St. Louis study found that only about 42% of AI Overviews could be fully verified from their own citations, and Google has said only that the overviews are tested and keep improving. The workarounds could stop working if Google changes how search results are delivered, so they are not something to lean on for long.
The £400 billion that the UK government cited for almost two years as the economic boost from AI came from a 2023 report commissioned by Google and written by the consultancy Public First, now called PF Global. In a parliamentary answer, the UK AI minister said the government's own estimate is £55 billion to £140 billion by 2030, with a central figure of £120 billion. He added that even this estimate is hugely uncertain, but he did not withdraw the £400 billion figure or say it was wrong. Ministers have had the lower estimate since at least November 2025, yet Skills England, the agency responsible for apprenticeships, was still publishing the old number four months later.
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The source of a figure in government messaging was checked only after it had spread widely. PF Global, which wrote the report, said adoption has been slower than its 2023 model assumed, so its central estimate for 2030 is now much closer to the government's number. The chair of the Commons science committee said such overstatement undermines the case for change.
In an essay, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that politicians who back a data center could threaten the U.S. lead over China, comparing such a vote to the 2002 Iraq war authorization. The essay likens the AI era to the New Deal that followed the Great Depression, says the 2028 election could be a decisive turning point for AI, and proposes five policy priorities including worker protection, education, AI safety and data center development. It also calls for a kill switch that can limit or stop AI systems, independent evaluation and public oversight. TechCrunch asked OpenAI for details, and the company had not replied by publication.
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OpenAI opposed California's AI safety bill SB 1047 in 2024 and last year tried to limit state-level regulation, but this time it is talking about a kill switch and independent evaluation. The policy head at the research group AI Now Institute called its safety position disingenuous. The essay offers few concrete ways to prevent income concentration and no binding requirement that workers share in AI gains.
According to The Information, OpenAI has avoided speaking publicly about export controls on AI chips to China for the past year for fear of upsetting Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang. When OpenAI vice president Noam Brown asked in an internal Slack channel what the company's chip export policy was, policy staff pointed to AI safety material that did not address China export controls and told him to discuss specifics with the global policy team. OpenAI's head of global policy, Chris Lehane, says the company supports strong export controls. OpenAI is also developing its own chip, Jalapeño, a rival to Nvidia's, which it does not plan to sell to China and will use only in the U.S. and allied countries.
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The core of the report is that customers weigh their public statements because Nvidia controls the supply of s. A cloud provider that uses AMD chips said its customers do not want to disclose that, out of fear of Nvidia's reaction. Congress is expected to resume talks on export-control legislation after the midterms. The report also notes concern that Nvidia's aggressive lobbying is deepening resentment in Washington and could weaken its influence.
In a legal opinion on November 4, the senior of the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) said that when an AI chatbot pulls articles from news sites and reuses them in answers, it can infringe copyright under certain conditions. A problem arises if the chatbot gets around a paywall, reproduces the original wording recognizably, or gives an answer so complete that the reader no longer needs the article. Simply conveying facts is not protected. The opinion comes from a case the Hungarian publisher Like Company brought against Google over its Gemini chatbot. According to The Wall Street Journal, the advocate general considered that using articles for training can be allowed under the EU text and data mining exception.
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The heart of the opinion is that it leaves training open but draws a line at reusing articles in answers. It is not legally binding, though the ECJ often follows it, and the final ruling rests with the Hungarian court. The European Publishers Council argued that publishers should not be forced to choose between search visibility and copyright protection. Google welcomed the part of the opinion that allows public information to be used for training.
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Google's search revenue grew 12% year over year in Alphabet's third quarter, down from about 17% in the previous quarter, and growth in paid clicks slowed from 13% to 8%. Search queries grew at their fastest rate in five years, but Google's chief business officer said AI Mode queries earn less than traditional searches. He said currency effects were the biggest driver of the slowdown. Alphabet plans to spend about $200 billion on infrastructure this year, and its shares have fallen about 14% since the report.
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Even setting currency aside, if AI answers lead to fewer ad clicks, the payback on a $200 billion investment comes later. Google says its ad experiments look promising, but it is still unclear whether AI Mode's lower earnings reflect a deliberate, gradual rollout of ads, as Google says, or a deeper problem with putting ads in AI search. An advertising analyst called it the first major disruption to Google's core business in decades.
OpenAI announced on November 4 that it will acquire the developer tooling startup Pierre Computer Company, with terms undisclosed. Pierre runs a cloud service that stores code written by AI agents and claims significantly better performance than competing technology. It is reported to have helped the AI startup Lovable cut code search latency by about 70%. Pierre's open-source libraries Trees and Diffs already support the interface of OpenAI's coding tool Codex, and they will remain open source after the deal.
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Pierre's paid code-hosting features will be folded into Codex. Observers read the deal as a move aimed at Hub, the code repository owned by Microsoft. On Monday, OpenAI revealed Pando, an engine that speeds up its internal Git environment by cutting the time coding agents take to create and read code files. With Pierre, OpenAI plans to streamline agent work that runs through Git, the tool developers use to manage code files.
OpenAI is rolling out a feature to all ChatGPT and Codex users that makes animated GIFs from text prompts or photos, on web, desktop and mobile. It runs on the image model Images 2.6, and users can adjust the animation speed or edit individual frames. The result is a flipbook of slightly different images, which only works if a character stays recognizable from frame to frame, and The Decoder says the new model holds that consistency. According to OpenAI, more than 4 billion images a week are now generated through ChatGPT and the API, up 1 billion from September.
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Keeping a character recognizable across frames is what an image model needs to move from single pictures to sequences of scenes. Weekly image generation rose from about 3 billion to more than 4 billion in two months.
What to do now
In ChatGPT, ask for something like 'make a GIF of a cat dancing' or upload a photo. The rollout is gradual, so it may not appear for you yet.
In the Texas midterms, Democrats won a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship and will take a majority in the state House for the first time in 24 years. Both winners made data centers a central issue, and the governor-elect called for a full during the campaign. On September 21, before the election, the sitting governor ordered the state environmental regulator to halt data center permits. Texas hosts huge projects such as the 1,820-megawatt Stargate Frontier and the 6,400-megawatt Nexus Hubbard, built mainly for Anthropic.
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The article's conclusion is that tough campaign promises may prove hard to carry out. Data center permits are decided jointly by cities, counties and the state, so a statewide halt is complicated to enforce, and construction unions that backed some Democratic candidates may oppose a moratorium. Banks are also growing pickier about data center projects, at a time when the buildout is underpinning economic growth.
On its fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call, Qualcomm laid out data center chip revenue forecasts of about $650 million in the first quarter of 2027, $5 billion by the end of 2027 and $15 billion by 2029. With smartphone sales down about 20% from 2025, it expects data centers to eventually make up around 30% of its business. The plan rests on partnerships with Amazon and Meta announced earlier this year. AMD, by comparison, expects more than 80% of its revenue to come from data centers.
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The article reads the plan as a sign that there is plenty of AI data center demand to be filled. But the $5 billion target for the end of 2027 is still only a plan. Getting there from $650 million depends first on how much customers such as Amazon and Meta actually order.
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