Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
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.
Google's research tool, now at 30 million users, gains a sandboxed execution environment that writes and runs Python against your sources — starting with Ultra subscribers.
Jul 17, 2026
Google's AI lab is standing up pathogen surveillance, faster vaccine design and a rapid-response drug-discovery unit — explicitly covering both natural outbreaks and AI-enabled misuse.
Jul 17, 2026
Two binding Digital Markets Act decisions give competing assistants equal access to core Android functions from mid-2027 and force anonymized search-data sharing with rivals — including AI chatbots — from January.
Jul 17, 2026
A fake image of the ailing senator on life support spread across X and Reddit — until fact-checkers found Google's invisible AI watermark baked into it, in a rare public win for deepfake detection.
Jul 9, 2026
According to reports, DeepMind threw out the Gemini 2.5 Pro-based foundation days before launch and started a fresh pre-training run — leaving Google the only major lab without a public flagship as GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 ship.
Jul 9, 2026
The AlphaFold co-creator and 2024 Nobel winner is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years, a marquee loss in the intensifying race to build AI for science.
Jul 4, 2026
The delayed flagship promises a 2-million-token context window and a Deep Think mode, but Google is still holding it back over token-efficiency and long-task concerns.
Jul 4, 2026
