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Reflection AI, concurrent américain de DeepSeek, veut reprendre la main sur l’open source avec une levée de 2 milliards de dollars

Reflection AI, start-up fondée par deux anciens de DeepMind, a levé 2 milliards de dollars le 9 octobre 2025. Soutenue par Nvidia et les principaux fonds américains, elle veut concurrencer DeepSeek, l’IA open source chinoise devenue incontournable, et faire de l’open source un atout stratégique pour l’industrie américaine.

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Derrière le Nobel de physique, la consécration de Google : c’est le cinquième prix de l’entreprise américaine

Google Nobel

On connait Google pour ses produits et services grand public, mais l'entreprise est aussi très active dans la recherche fondamentale. Au point, d'ailleurs, que certains employés actuels ou passés ont fini par avoir un prix Nobel. En l'espace de deux ans, la firme de Mountain View est passée de zéro à cinq Nobel. Signe de son implication dans la tech de pointe.

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Play Store Changes Coming This Month as SCOTUS Declines To Freeze Antitrust Remedies

An anonymous reader shares a report: Changes are coming to the Play Store in spite of a concerted effort from Google to maintain the status quo. The company asked the US Supreme Court to freeze parts of the Play Store antitrust ruling while it pursued an appeal, but the high court has rejected that petition. That means the first elements of the antitrust remedies won by Epic Games will have to be implemented in mere weeks. The app store case is one of three ongoing antitrust actions against Google, but it's the furthest along of them. Google lost the case in 2023, and in 2024, US District Judge James Donato ordered a raft of sweeping changes aimed at breaking Google's illegal monopoly on Android app distribution. In July, Google lost its initial appeal, leaving it with little time before the mandated changes must begin. [...] The more dramatic changes are not due until July 2026, but this month will still bring major changes to Android apps. Google will have to allow developers to link to alternative methods of payment and download outside the Play Store, and it cannot force developers to use Google Play Billing within the Play Store. Google is also prohibited from setting prices for developers.

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Google est-il derrière « cheetah », le modèle d’IA mystérieux apparu ce week-end ?

Après nano-banana, qui s'était révélé être un modèle Google, un nouveau modèle inconnu a fait son apparition sur Cursor et les plateformes de tests : cheetah. Sa particularité : générer des milliers de tokens en à peine quelques secondes. Certains suspectent cheetah d'être une version définitive du Gemini Diffusion dévoilé en mai.

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Google Is Ending Gmailify and POP Support

Google will discontinue Gmailify and POP email support in January 2026, forcing users who rely on these features to switch to IMAP. PCWorld reports: These changes only affect future emails. Emails that have already been synchronized in the Gmail account will remain the same. External accounts can still be used in the Gmail app, but only via IMAP. Google also recommends that users with work or education accounts contact their administrators if a Google Workspace migration is needed. For many Gmail users, these changes will likely mean getting used to the new system. Anyone who previously upgraded their external email accounts with Gmailify or integrated them via POP will have to switch to IMAP by January 2026 at the latest and do without some convenient functions, like spam filters and automatic sorting.

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Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications. In a statement, Google said a group claiming affiliation with the ransomware gang cl0p, opens new tab was sending emails to "executives at numerous organizations claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite." Google cautioned that it "does not currently have sufficient evidence to definitively assess the veracity of these claims."

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Anthropic lance Claude Sonnet 4.5, un nouveau modèle présenté comme plus performant que GPT-5

Anthropic, souvent présenté comme le principal rival d'OpenAI dans le monde des startups de l'IA, vient de lancer deux nouveaux modèles : Claude Sonnet 4.5 et Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking. Sa cible est une nouvelle fois les développeurs, avec des aptitudes annoncées comme sans équivalent en codage.

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Bye bye Bowser, Starship prête à décoller, une IA qui parle comme un humain — le récap’ de la semaine

Nintendo perd « son » Bowser, avec le départ de Doug à la présidence de Nintendo of America. Starship, de son côté, est prête à s'envoler pour son 11e test. Google, pour sa part, continue de progresser sur son modèle d'IA Gemini. Voilà trois des actualités de la semaine, que vous avez peut-être manquées !

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« On entendra parler de cette campagne pendant un an », Google alerte sur cet outil plébiscité par le cyberespionnage chinois

Dans une étude parue le 24 septembre 2025, Mandiant, l’entité d’analyse des menaces cyber chez Google, revient en détail sur sa traque contre BRICKSTORM. Selon les équipes de recherche de la société, ce logiciel malveillant aurait permis à des cyberespions chinois d’infiltrer des entreprises américaines du secteur technologique, ainsi que des acteurs du système judiciaire, parfois pendant plus d’un an sans être détectés.

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Google Experiences Deja Vu As Second Monopoly Trial Begins In US

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: After deflecting the US Department of Justice's attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on abusive tactics in digital advertising. The trial that opened Monday in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court revolves around the harmful conduct that resulted in US district Judge Leonie Brinkema declaring parts of Google's digital advertising technology to be an illegal monopoly in April. The judge found that Google has been engaging in behavior that stifles competition to the detriment of online publishers that depend on the system for revenue. Google and the justice department will spend the next two weeks in court presenting evidence in a "remedy" trial that will culminate in Brinkema issuing a ruling on how to restore fair market conditions. If the justice department gets its way, Brinkema will order Google to sell parts of its ad technology -- a proposal that the company's lawyers warned would "invite disruption and damage" to consumers and the internet's ecosystem. The justice department contends a breakup would be the most effective and quickest way to undercut a monopoly that has been stifling competition and innovation for years. [...] The case, filed in 2023 under Joe Biden's administration, threatens the complex network that Google has spent the past 17 years building to power its dominant digital advertising business. Digital advertising sales account for most of the $305 billion in revenue that Google's services division generates for its corporate parent Alphabet. The company's sprawling network of display ads provide the lifeblood that keeps thousands of websites alive. Google believes it has already made enough changes to its "ad manager" system, including providing more options and pricing options, to resolve the problems Brinkema flagged in her monopoly ruling.

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