LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Google has named its new London headquarters "Platform 37" in a nod to its neighbour, King's Cross railway station, and "Move 37" - a pivotal play made by DeepMind's AI system AlphaGo in a legendary match of the ancient boardgame Go against world champion Lee Sae Dol.

Google Fiber, now officially called GFiber, is being sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and will be combined with cable-and-fiber firm Astound Broadband to create a larger Internet service provider.

Google announced a commitment to a $1 billion investment to expand its data center expansion in Lenoir, North Carolina, over the next two years.

The extremely popular navigation service adds three-dimensional mapping and a whole lot of AI features.

Google Maps rolls out its biggest update in years, introducing Immersive Navigation and the AI-powered Ask Maps feature for smarter routes and real-world questions.

Iran has declared Google, Amazon and Microsoft “legitimate targets” for attack, publishing a hit list of tech company offices and data centres in the Middle East.

Google completes its $32 billion Wiz acquisition with a new security platform ahead with continued Wiz support of cloud AWS, Microsoft and Oracle customers.

Google is launching a new, more detailed 3D map view as well as Ask Maps, which uses Gemini AI

The military command urged people to stay away from banks in the region.

Flash floods are notoriously difficult to predict, but Google might have a novel solution. The company just revealed Groundsource, a prediction tool for flash floods that uses Gemini to source data from old news reports.

A new coalition of tech companies and energy distributors wants to work with regulators and lawmakers to improve electricity grid operations.