Finland launches criminal probe into Google’s forest clearing for data center

 Finnish police have launched a criminal investigation into Google's Finnish subsidiary for clearing 330 hectares of forest in Muhos and 200 hectares in Kajaani before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments.

Authorities are investigating potential violations of the Water Act and environmental damage from drainage and water management issues at the construction sites.

The Supervisory Agency ordered Google to halt work at both sites on October 6, 2026, after the scale of logging became public.

Ecologists estimate Google cleared approximately 400,000 trees total across both locations for planned AI data center facilities.

The controversy highlights growing global opposition to data center construction over environmental concerns, water usage and electricity demands....<<<Read More>>>...

Google’s Search Dominance Faces Challenges from AI Competition and User Backlash

 Google maintains approximately 90% of the global search market, according to industry estimates, and its parent company Alphabet Inc. has seen its stock price more than double in the past year. Revenue growth in the first quarter was the fastest since 2022.

However, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and shifting user preferences are creating new pressures on the company's core search business. DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, reported a surge in installs following Google's May 2026 announcement that it would overhaul search with an AI agent.

Microsoft's Bing reached 1 billion users for the first time last quarter. Google's own search engine traffic declined more than 1% in the past month, according to data from Ahrefs, while ChatGPT traffic increased. These developments indicate that Google's long-standing dominance is facing mounting challenges from AI-powered rivals and a segment of users seeking alternatives to AI-driven search....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1042

 

The final frontier for computing: Google’s cosmic gambit for AI

 Google has announced Project Suncatcher, an initiative to build solar-powered data centers in space, with plans to launch initial hardware by 2027.

The move is a response to the massive and growing energy demands of artificial intelligence, which are straining terrestrial power grids.

Tech leaders like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have endorsed the concept, citing space's unlimited solar energy as a solution to Earth's power limitations.

Significant technical hurdles, particularly around heat dissipation in the vacuum of space, remain unaddressed in the company's announcements.

Analysts suggest the ambitious project may also be a strategic narrative to address internal and external concerns over the environmental impact of AI's energy consumption.

In a bold response to the unsustainable energy appetite of the artificial intelligence revolution, Google has set its sights on the ultimate high ground: space. The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced this month that Google plans to begin constructing orbital data centers, powered solely by solar energy, as early as 2027. This initiative, dubbed Project Suncatcher, represents a staggering technological moonshot aimed at decoupling the breakneck growth of AI from Earth’s strained power grids and environmental constraints. The announcement places Google at the forefront of a growing consensus among tech titans that the future of large-scale computing may lie beyond our atmosphere....<<<Read More>>>... 

Google plans to charge users for new “premium” search features powered by AI

Google is planning to charge users for new "premium" features run by artificial intelligence (AI), marking the first time that the Big Tech company would be putting services behind a paywall.

The tech giant is mulling options such as adding certain AI search features to its premium subscription services. Engineers are developing the technology to roll out the service, but company executives haven't decided when to launch the proposal. But early reports indicate that Google's ubiquitous search engine would continue to be free and ads would appear alongside search results even to subscribers.

"For years we've been reinventing Search to help people access information in the way that's most natural to them," said one Google spokesperson. "With our generative AI experiments in Search, we've already served billions of queries and we're seeing positive Search query growth in all our major markets."

“We're continuing to rapidly improve the product to serve new user needs,” the spokesperson continued. "We're not working on or considering an ad-free search experience. As we've done many times before, we’ll continue to build new premium capabilities and services to enhance our subscription offerings across Google."...<<<Read More>>>...

Big Tech’s AI systems are ERASING entire record of white people from human history

There are no longer any white people on earth, nor were there any in the past, according to Google's artificial intelligence (AI) Gemini (formerly Bard) program.

All "American women" are black, according to Gemini, and the same goes for "Swedish women," "Australian women," "British women" and "German women." Take a look for yourself:

The same types of results show up when performing a normal Google search as well. Type in the words "American inventors" into Google's "Images" category and see for yourself the results.

When asking Google's Gemini to "Generate images of people born in Scotland in year 1820," the image that comes up is a portrait of a smiling, redheaded white woman coupled with a scowling black man.

Amazingly, if you try asking Google's Gemini to "Create an image of a White couple," the following politically correct, anti-white prompt comes up instead:

"While I am able to generate images, I am unable to fulfill your request to create an image based solely on someone's race or ethnicity. It is against my guidelines to create content that could be construed as discriminatory or promote stereotypes."

Based on this, you might assume that Google's Gemini will not pull up any images of any couples, no matter the race – but you would be dead wrong for assuming that as the AI program quickly and easily populates plenty of imagery when asking it to "Create an image of a black couple."

"Sure, here is an image of a Black couple," the prompt responds with not just one but two images of happy black couples....<<<Read More>>>...

Google removes news about UFO flying past Joe Biden’s plane

 On December 10, 2023, US President Joe Biden’s plane flew into Los Angeles and, when landing at the airport, a silver UFO ball flew close to him.

This strange ball, which either flew quickly across the sky or froze in one place, was caught on camera at least three times by brother cameramen Peter and Josh Solorzano, who were filming planes landing at the airport and broadcasting live on their Youtube channel LA FLIGHTS. You can read more about this in our article here.

Strange things began immediately with this incident. For some reason, the media wrote about him only at the end of December, almost two weeks later, although Solorzano’s broadcast was available to everyone from the very beginning.

And now ufologist Chris Lehto claims that the Google search engine is deliberately “cleansing” references to this incident from the Internet. According to Lehto, the video was initially published by a number of US news outlets, but then almost all of these posts were removed from Google....<<<Read More>>>....

Google rolls out new generative AI feature that summarizes articles – meaning, you can only see what it allows you to see

 Google has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) feature which will summarize articles being searched while using the company's web browser Chrome.

SGE has already been active on Chrome. But the new feature, known as "SGE while browsing," is designed to take the feature a step further by immediately providing summaries to articles users click on.

Google has described this new feature as a tool to efficiently "navigate information online" and better engage with long-form content from different publishers and creators to make it easier to find certain subjects.

The feature is currently only available as an "early experiment" that certain Chrome users can opt into. Chrome users who have already opted into using some of the SGE's earlier features will automatically have access to it.

To access this summarization feature, users scrolling through articles on Chrome will see an option at the bottom of the screen that says "Get AI-generated key points" whenever Google's AI can generate summaries for the pages they are visiting.

There will also be an "Explore on page" section that shows users certain points brought up by the articles, such as questions users are looking for answers to...<<<Read More>>>...

Smoking gun: U.S. government, CDC colluded with Google, Twitter, Facebook to censor important information about experimental covid vaccines

America First Legal (AFL) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to investigate unconstitutional acts between the federal government and the Big Tech social media platforms. AFL obtained 256 pages of communication between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Google, Facebook and Twitter. These pages document egregious violations of the US Constitution and provide evidence that the Federal Government violated the Nuremberg Code.

AFL President Stephen Miller issued a statement:

These explosive smoking-gun documents, obtained as a result of America First Legal’s litigation against the Biden Administration, conclusively demonstrate that Big Tech has unlawfully colluded with the federal government to silence, censor, and suppress Americans’ free speech and violate their First Amendment rights. Government is expressly prohibited from censoring competing or dissenting viewpoints or from silencing its political opponents whether it does so directly or whether it uses an outside corporation to achieve its draconian, totalitarian ends. AFL will not rest in the fight against illegal collusion between Big Tech and Big Government to trample on your voices and the Bill of Rights....<<<Read More>>>...

Is Google’s DeepMind AI Close To ‘Human-Level’ Intelligence?

 DeepMind, a British company owned by Google, may be on the verge of achieving human-level artificial intelligence (AI).

Nando de Freitas, a research scientist at DeepMind and machine learning professor at Oxford University, has said ‘the game is over’ in regards to solving the hardest challenges in the race to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI).

AGI refers to a machine or program that has the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can, and do so without training.

According to De Freitas, the quest for scientists is now scaling up AI programs, such as with more data and computing power, to create an AGI.

Earlier this week, DeepMind unveiled a new AI ‘agent’ called Gato that can complete 604 different tasks ‘across a wide range of environments’.

Gato uses a single neural network – a computing system with interconnected nodes that works like nerve cells in the human brain.

It can chat, caption images, stack blocks with a real robot arm and even play the 1980s home video game console Atari, DeepMind claims....<<<Read More>>>....

AI Research Is A Dumpster Fire And Google’s Holding The Matches

 Scientific endeavor is no match for corporate greed.

The world of AI research is in shambles. From the academics prioritizing easy-to-monetize schemes over breaking novel ground, to the Silicon Valley elite using the threat of job loss to encourage corporate-friendly hypotheses, the system is a broken mess.

And Google deserves a lion’s share of the blame.

There were approximately 85,000 research papers published globally on the subject of AI/ML in the year 2000. Fast-forward to 2021 and there were nearly twice as many published in the US alone.

To say there’s been an explosion in the field would be a massive understatement. This influx of researchers and new ideas has led to deep learning becoming one of the world’s most important technologies.

Between 2014 and 2021 big tech all but abandoned its “web first” and “mobile first” principles to adopt “AI first” strategies.

Now, in 2022, AI developers and researchers are in higher demand (and command more salary) than nearly any other jobs in tech outside of the C-suite.

But this sort of unfettered growth also has a dark side. In the scramble to meet the market demand for deep learning-based products and services, the field’s become as cutthroat and fickle as professional sports.

In the past few years, we’ve seen the the “GANfather,” Ian Goodfellow, jump ship from Google to Apple, Timnit Gebru and others get fired from Google for dissenting opinions on the efficacy of research, and a virtual torrent of dubious AI papers manage to somehow clear peer-review.

The flood of talent that arrived in the wake of the deep learning explosion also brought a mudslide of bad research, fraud, and corporate greed along with it....<<<Read More>>>..

Google is Spying On Your Private Conversations & Manipulate Search Results

[Humans Are Free]: ‘This is the year where we either wake up and and try to fight these companies or we will be turning over democracy to [them],’ Dr. Robert Epstein said.

Dr. Epstein is a psychologist, professor, author, and journalist who earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University in 1981. He testified at the U.S. Congress about his research last year.

“The message I’m trying to get out there has nothing to do with my political views,” Dr. Epstein told me today. “We need to set our politics aside and try to understand what’s happening with the tech companies and especially the way they’re affecting democracy.”

He’s done a number of studies that definitively show that Google is manipulating search engine results.

“These companies are using this power strategically and deliberately and on a very large scale,” he responded. “I don’t care who these companies are favoring right now. The fact is, they shouldn’t have this kind of power… whoever they’re favoring today might not be who they’re favoring tomorrow.”

He also said Google and other companies like it are unaccountable to anyone and that that’s a serious threat for democracy....<<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Trump says Big Tech is “100%” trying to control the information that “people see”

[Donald Trump]: During a recent interview with Breitbart News, President Donald Trump made the claim that Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are “100 percent” trying to control the information that Americans are allowed to access online.

When asked directly if Silicon Valley is impinging online free speech, Trump immediately answered with, “yeah, 100 percent. Do you have a doubt?”

Breitbart had just informed the president prior to this that Google has systematically turned off all search functionality for Breitbart and other alt-news websites in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

In essence, Google has made it next to impossible for people to find Breitbart and other conservative-leaning news content through its search engine. This means that most people will only be able to access left-leaning news content through Google that promotes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as the larger Democrat agenda.

“The tech companies are very dishonest about that and about free speech,” Trump added. “It could be a big problem for them at the appropriate time.”...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Now the Left turns on Labour Right-dominated Icke-deleting censorship group Digital Hate, its Labour activist ‘CEO’ Imran Ahmed and founder Morgan McSweeney – ‘Be careful what you cheer for because they’ll come for us next’. Oh yes – that’s how elite censorship works: Cheer the censoring of others till it’s your turn

[David Icke]: Google’s censure of right-wing outlets over repulsive racist content was pushed by the UK’s Center for Countering Digital Hate, an outfit with strong ties to the Labour right. As awful as outlets like the Federalist are, do we really want Blairites who claim Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite to decide what is and is not acceptable to publish?

Censorship is a dangerous game. No one with liberal or left sympathies wants to give hate and bigotry a platform. But dealing in terms so malleable and easily contorted means that attempts to simply banish unpleasant things from our discourse by decree often means letting people with vastly different ideas of what those words mean decide what should and shouldn’t be allowed to say.

A recent case illustrates this conundrum. Google’s decision to demonetize libertarian website Zero Hedge, and put the right-wing Federalist on notice over offensive content in their respective comments sections received a lot of attention last week. The Right was unsurprisingly furious, seeing in the move yet more confirmation of their vastly overblown theory of an anti-conservative bias among social media companies. Yet the move also saw well-reasoned pushback from the Left. After all, the Federalist may publish some appalling dreck, but do we really want unaccountable tech giants threatening media outlets over content they deem unacceptable, particularly when it’s in their comments sections of all things?....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Break up Google

[Creators]: Google has reached a level of monopolization that needs to be taken seriously as a threat to freedom, the free exchange of ideas and political diversity.

Follow along with the logic of your average "woke" Google employee. These employees have been openly arguing for a few years now that Google needs a diverse array of employees shaping Google's algorithms, or Google will only present to consumers certain information that might exclude diverse views or information.

Concurrently, these same employees have argued that Google need not entertain conservative thoughts or ideas. It was not that long ago that Google employees revolted at the idea of Kay Cole James, a black female and president of the Heritage Foundation, sitting on a Google advisory board designed to ensure diversity in Google's artificial intelligence practices.

Google's employees want diversity, but not ideological diversity. They believe diversity is needed to shape access to information through Google, but they want to deny any ideological diversity in the process of shaping.

Google controls over 90% of search engine activity. With a "diverse" group of people who lack intellectual diversity, Google can restrict access to information that offends its hired gatekeepers. Google controls over 70% of the market share of advertising online. Over the years, Google has bought up major competitors and then leveraged its dominance to both grow its ad business and hurt its competitors...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Google executive took part in Sage meeting, tech firm confirms

[David Icke]: Google has confirmed that one of its senior executives participated in the UK government’s scientific advisory group on Covid-19, raising further questions about the composition of the secretive committee.

Demis Hassabis, a co–founder of Google’s artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, attended a meeting of the scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) on 18 March, when the group was considering whether the UK should go into lockdown.

Google said Hassabis was invited by the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, who chairs Sage, which provides top-level guidance to the Cabinet Office during emergencies.

While Hassabis is considered a world-leading AI researcher, the presence on Sage of an executive from a Silicon Valley company that has been exploring ways to profit from using big data in the health industry is likely to deepen controversy about the group.

DeepMind previously processed millions of healthcare records from an NHS hospital trust as part of a scheme to design a diagnostic app, in an arrangement subsequently found to have contravened data protection law. DeepMind’s health unit was transferred to the parent company’s health division last year....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>>....

Trump Promised to Fix ‘Radical Left’ Social Media Censorship

[Humans Are Free]: Online free speech is under attack like never before, and President Donald Trump has vowed to take action in its preservation.

In a recent tweet, Trump called out the culprits by name and indicated that his administration is working to address a problem that has been escalating for years.

“The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google,” the president tweeted.

“The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation.” ...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Google — A Dictator Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Known

[Mercola.com]: Google's powers pose three specific threats to society:

1. They're a surveillance agency with significant yet hidden surveillance powers. As noted by Epstein:

"The search engine … Google Wallet, Google Docs, Google Drive, YouTube, these are surveillance platforms. In other words, from their perspective, the value these tools have is they give them more information about you. Surveillance is what they do."

2. They're a censoring agency with the ability to restrict or block access to websites across the internet, thus deciding what people can and cannot see. They even have the ability to block access to entire countries and the internet as a whole.

The most crushing problem with this kind of internet censorship is that you don't know what you don't know. If a certain type of information is removed from search, and you don't know it should exist somewhere, you'll never go looking for it. And, when searching for information online, how would you know that certain websites or pages have been removed from the search results in the first place? The answer is, you don't.

For example, Google has been investing in DNA repositories for quite a long time, and are adding DNA information to our profiles. According to Epstein, Google has taken over the national DNA repository, but articles about that — which he has cited in his own writings — have all vanished.

3. They have the power to manipulate public opinion through search rankings and other means.

"To me, that's the scariest area," Epstein says, "because Google is shaping the opinions, thinking, beliefs, attitudes, purchases and votes of billions of people around the world without anyone knowing that they're doing so … and perhaps even more shocking, without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace.

They're using new techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history and they are for the most part, subliminal … but they don't produce tiny shifts.

They produce enormous shifts in people's thinking, very rapidly. Some of the techniques I've discovered are among the largest behavioral effects ever discovered in the behavioral sciences."

While surveillance is Google's primary business, their revenue — which exceeds $130 billion a year — comes almost exclusively from advertising. All that personal information you've provided them through their various products is sold to advertisers looking for a specific target audience...<<<Read The Full Shocking Article Here>>>...

Google Scientists Are Creating an Artificial Intelligence That Evolves on Its Own

They already have. They are just awaiting the allotted time to unveil it.

[Waking Times]: One of the biggest global players in artificial intelligence (AI) is Google and their high-tech Brain division has been pushing the envelope for years.

Now scientists working for their AutoML project have a new paper in which they claim to be developing algorithms that can evolve on their own without human input. Even more stunning is their claim that they can induce “mutations” into new generations of algorithms, which mimics principles of Darwinian evolution, namely “survival of the fittest.”

The team started with one of the most basic ideas in modern AI: machine learning. Machine learning tools allow us to use algorithms to search through massive troves of data and quickly identify patterns. But the traditional problem with this method is the element of human bias....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Treasonous Google helped communist China infiltrate Silicon Valley and control U.S. tech giants

[Natural News]: Even as POTUS Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a better trade arrangement between the U.S. and China — something that must be done in order to make it much more beneficial for our country than it currently is — like Republican presidents in the past, he, too, is being undermined by Democrats and Leftists who align with the Democrat Party.

Today, China has become the No. 2 economy on the planet. The country is spreading its influence globally via its “Belt and Road Initiative,” which has been called a “debt trap” by U.S. lawmakers and policy experts. It’s military is powerful and becoming more so, thanks in large part to the theft of U.S. technology (much of which occurred on Clinton’s watch). And worse, American technology companies like Google are actually partnering with China on several projects that, when all is said and one, will empower Beijing at the United States’ expense.

In fact, as noted earlier this month by PalPal co-founder and venture capitalist billionaire Peter Thiel, the relationship between America’s biggest tech company — Alphabet, the parent of Google — and China is “seemingly treasonous,” Breitbart News reported in an extensive piece by James Pinkerton recently...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...