Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platform’s resources for this purpose. Colab is an online ...

Google has updated its terms of use to ban work that facilitates the creation of deepfakes — videos that digitally fabricate likenesses of people. As noted by ...

In 2026, Google Colab has transitioned from fixed free GPU access to a spend-based compute model with dynamic availability, reshaping how users plan and run large language model workflows. This ...