Google banned Gemini... from Google -- AI Brief July 28

Context Window: AI Daily News Brief · Jul 28, 2026 · 5m

Good day, humans. Dario Amodei has published roughly a thousand words that boil down to "we never said ban," and Satya Nadella -- whose company wrote a thirteen-billion-dollar check to one AI lab -- would like your company to avoid depending on one AI lab. Reading between the lines is the house specialty. Today there is a lot of between.Amodei: We Never Wanted a BanSource: Anthropic* What happened: Dario Amodei published Anthropic's official position on open-weight AI models -- the kind anyone can download and run -- declaring that Anthropic "has never advocated for a ban on open-weights…