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2 articles First covered May 1, 2026, latest May 21, 2026

The 2013 first-generation Chromecast HDMI dongle next to its USB power cable

First-gen Chromecasts are vanishing from streaming apps. Google won't say if it's a fix or a quiet EOL.

YouTube, HBO Max, and others stopped listing the 2013 Chromecast as a cast target. Google EOL'd the hardware in 2023 and isn't commenting.

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Alphabet hit $109.9B in Q1 and is starting to sell TPUs to outside data centers

Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.