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Google ships AI across Gemini, Search, Cloud and Android, with DeepMind driving frontier research. This hub covers model launches, product rollouts, research milestones and regulatory scrutiny around Google's AI business.
The talent moves to Google, the product dies, and the cap table receives nothing — because there is no acquisition for it to receive anything from.
36m ago
Migrating is not a model-string swap: the method disappears, the response shape changes, and batch generation goes away.
23h ago
HEIR converts pre-trained models to run inference directly on homomorphically encrypted inputs. Four reference applications ship with it, and none of them are a hosted product.
2d ago
The corner stamp on Gemini images, video and songs becomes a setting. SynthID and C2PA credentials stay embedded whatever you choose.
2d ago
Enterprise automation scores nearly doubled and long-horizon software engineering went from 49.0% to 65.3%. Introductory pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens until New Year.
4d ago
SL2T ships in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11 — the first sign-language model in a consumer product. It launches with one language pair.
5d ago
Published in Nature and built with the National Hurricane Center, WeatherNext Cyclones cuts three-day track error to roughly 100 km. The weights are on GitHub.
Aug 9, 2026
Mechanize builds the environments and graders that frontier coding agents are trained against. Google wants the technology non-exclusively and the people directly — the deal shape that avoids buying the company.
Aug 6, 2026
Construction at Visakhapatnam is well under way, with the hillside terraced. So are the court cases: a High Court hearing is set for later this month over water and the neighbouring reserve.
Aug 6, 2026
Demis Hassabis gives up day-to-day control of Google DeepMind and takes the titles of chair and Alphabet chief scientist. Jeff Dean, after 27 years, actually walks — to a company Google is funding.
Aug 6, 2026
The waitlist came down six months after the February launch, with nearly 150,000 riders admitted from the interest list in between. The service area did not necessarily grow, and two of the routes people most want are not open.
Aug 4, 2026
The company is readying 400G and 448G interconnect on 2nm for the second half of 2027, aimed at TPU v10 and Meta's next accelerator. The reporting says "a key enabler for bidding" — which is not the same as a contract.
Aug 3, 2026
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash are gone from every Copilot surface. The changelog says no action is required, which is true of the removal and not of what comes after it.
Aug 1, 2026
Users produced convincing fake satellite imagery within hours — craters beside a hospital in Gaza, columns of people at the Mexican border. Google calls it a rollback while it builds guardrails.
Aug 1, 2026
Gemini Robotics 2 is the first model to drive a humanoid's legs, torso, arms and fingers under a single policy. DeepMind published the failure rates alongside it.
Jul 31, 2026
Freeway driving resumes in Phoenix, then Los Angeles and the Bay Area — two months after a June recall covering roughly 4,000 vehicles, the company's sixth, over at least 13 drives into closed construction zones.
Jul 30, 2026
AlphaFold's researchers have been reassigned to Gemini-era projects and Isomorphic Labs. The database and servers stay online, and DeepMind's research vice-president says only that 'the strategy has evolved'.
Jul 30, 2026
A sedan struck a woman pushing a cart on Venice Boulevard, then crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the robotaxi. Most of the headlines put the robotaxi in the wrong role.
Jul 27, 2026
A Delaware court refused to dismiss claims that Google's chatbots fabricated criminal accusations about a conservative activist — the furthest any hallucination lawsuit has advanced in a US court.
Jul 25, 2026
The exclusivity that made Uber the only way to hail a Waymo in two major markets is ending, and the Financial Times reports Waymo has discussed ending the partnership altogether.
Jul 25, 2026
AI now touches 68% of occupations covering 90% of US employment. The median job uses it on about a fifth of its tasks, and fewer than one interaction in ten finishes a task outright.
Jul 24, 2026
Users can pre-record an encrypted reference video and later prove they're real with guided head movements — liveness checks designed for an era when a static face is trivially fakeable.
Jul 23, 2026
At Unpacked in London, Samsung's new foldables become the launch vehicle for Google's newest on-device model, task automation across 40-plus apps, and a preview of Android XR glasses.
Jul 23, 2026
A blowout AI quarter and a record $44.9 billion in quarterly capital spending arrive in the same report: Google Cloud surges, Gemini hits 950 million users, and investors still sell the stock.
Jul 23, 2026
USA Today's owner says it is prepared to delist from Google within a year, People Inc. calls a full block "100% on the table," and Reddit has discussed ending Google's $60-million-a-year AI access.
Jul 22, 2026
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing to $7.50 per million tokens and advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, while a gated Flash Cyber variant goes only to governments and trusted partners.
Jul 22, 2026
A server chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' would freeze parts of Google's model design directly into hardware for far more efficient inference, targeted for 2028, according to The Information.
Jul 20, 2026
The reference design runs continuously on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, letting a language model read, reason and write structured memory to a plain SQLite file instead of a vector database.
Jul 18, 2026
A selfie and a short voice recording produce a talking avatar restricted to your own likeness, while Gemini Omni brings prompt-based video editing to Google's fast-evolving video tool.
Jul 17, 2026
US users can link the first three partner apps to Search's AI Mode and have it fill grocery carts, generate design templates and build playlists — Google's clearest step from answering to acting.
Jul 17, 2026
