Google returns to San Jose after a week of AI deals and a Gemini outage

Google flew from a private airfield near Stockholm to San Jose on June 11, a 10-hour transatlantic hop that brought the Gulfstream G550 N10XG back to its home base at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.

The same week, Google announced a record sustainable aviation fuel certificates agreement with American Airlines, covering up to 35 million gallons of cleaner fuel for employee business travel, per thetraveler.org. The company also dealt with a Gemini service disruption that affected Workspace users across platforms on June 11, with engineers applying mitigations by mid-afternoon, as reported by Hecho en California. Separately, a Munich civil court ruled on May 28 that Google is directly liable for defamatory content generated by its AI Overviews feature, a decision that could reshape liability standards for generative AI output, per PPC Land.

The flight from Sweden follows a pattern of European trips for Google’s fleet. Earlier this week, N10XG flew from San Jose to Frankfurt on June 8, and in recent months it has visited Shannon, Ireland, and Friedrichshafen, Germany. The return to Silicon Valley brings the aircraft back to its primary base at Moffett Federal Airfield, where Google’s subsidiary Planetary Ventures holds a 60-year lease.