Google's private AI runs on sealed hardware, not on encrypted math News
Google's shipping private inference product runs Gemini inside hardware enclaves on custom chips, which is confidential computing rather than homomorphic encryption, and the company's actual homomorphic work is an unsupported research compiler.
WeatherNext called Melissa's Category 5 landfall five days out News
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext predicted Hurricane Melissa's Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days ahead at 80% confidence, and its five-day track forecasts averaged about 140 kilometres closer than the European ensemble -- roughly a day and a half of extra warning.
Hassabis hands DeepMind to a non-CEO and takes an Alphabet job News
Demis Hassabis is giving up day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to become chair and Alphabet's chief scientist, with Koray Kavukcuoglu running the lab as a senior vice-president rather than as CEO.
Google pulled AI image generation out of Google Earth one day after shipping it News
Google launched Nano Banana image generation inside Google Earth on July 30 and announced a rollback on July 31, saying users were sharing generated imagery that appeared to violate its policies and that it needed stronger guardrails first.
Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to build an AI that runs the experiments itself News
Alphabet announced on August 5 that Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving to found Discovery Loop, a startup betting that thousands of parallel automated experiments beat the human research loop, while Demis Hassabis hands off day-to-day control of Google DeepMind.
Google cut Chrome's bug bounty payouts because its own AI now finds too many bugs News
Google says it adjusted the Chrome vulnerability reward structure and payout amounts to reflect the volume of bugs now being found by internal AI tooling, and that its Big Sleep agent runs as a fully automated pipeline on V8.
Google loses its DMCA claim against a search scraper News
A federal judge dismissed both of Google's copyright anti-circumvention claims against SerpApi, ruling that a general anti-bot wall around non-copyrightable search results cannot be treated as a copyright access control.
Google's Lightweight Cyber Model Found 55 Unique Bugs in V8, Beating Models Far Larger News
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a small model fine-tuned for vulnerability hunting, found 55 unique confirmed issues in Chrome's JavaScript engine against 36 for Claude Opus 4.6, and Google is restricting it to governments and trusted partners.
The open-weights letter doubled to 50 signatories - Google and OpenAI signed, Anthropic did not News
The industry letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI doubled from 25 signatories to 50 within a day, adding Google and OpenAI; Anthropic is not on the list.
Google's two opposite bets: a Gemini-specialized chip and an EU order to open Android AI News
Google is reportedly designing a server chip called Frozen v2 that hardwires Gemini's architecture for six-to-ten times more tokens per watt, even as the European Commission adopted binding measures forcing Android to open eleven AI capabilities to rival assistants, making Google simultaneously bet on locking Gemini into silicon and being forced to unlock Gemini's Android advantages.
Gemini 3.6 Flash: Google ships a faster worker, not a bigger brain News
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash into general availability, and independent benchmarks show it streams output nearly twice as fast as 3.5 Flash and costs less per task while scoring the same on a leading intelligence index, though it still takes a conspicuous 11-plus seconds to start responding.
Google Falls Off One Leaderboard's Top 15, as a Report Describes a Gemini-Specific Chip News
Google dropped out of the top 15 on LLM Stats' composite leaderboard while remaining its fastest model, and Reuters separately reported an unannounced Gemini-specific inference chip.
Google's AI finds Android bugs faster than anyone can patch them News
Google has told phone makers it will drastically cut Android security backports because its own AI models are discovering vulnerabilities faster than its human teams can fix them.
Google's Gemma 4 is a small open multimodal family that skips the image encoder News
Google released Gemma 4, an open-weight model family from 2.3 to 31 billion parameters that natively handles vision and audio, including a 12-billion-parameter variant that ingests raw image and audio patches with no separate encoder.
Google publishes ARD, an open standard so AI agents can find each other's tools News
Google published the Agentic Resource Discovery specification on June 17, an open standard letting AI agents discover and verify tools and other agents across companies -- backed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, GitHub, Hugging Face and others.
Google ships a faster, cheaper image model and hands developers conversational video editing News
A lightweight version of Google's image model now makes a picture in about four seconds for a fraction of a cent, while a new video model lets developers edit clips by talking to it.
Google's fast model can now use a computer by itself News
Gemini 3.5 Flash gained built-in 'computer use,' letting one model click, type, and act across browsers, phones, and desktops.
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June. June is almost over. News
Google said its next flagship would arrive in June; with days left it's still limited preview. The timing is awkward -- it overlaps a gap where another Western flagship is also unavailable.
Two labs race to make AI write whole paragraphs at once instead of word by word News
Diffusion text models generate in parallel blocks rather than left to right; Google's open DiffusionGemma and Inception's Mercury 2 are now in a head-to-head over speed.
Google DeepMind puts $75 million into film studio A24 to build AI moviemaking tools News
A frontier AI lab is investing in a prestige studio to develop production tools hands-on with filmmakers -- officially not a deal to train models on A24's films.
design.md Tool
A simple convention from Google Labs for writing a DESIGN.md file that gives an AI coding assistant the context and intent it needs before it starts writing code, aimed at fewer wrong turns on bigger tasks.
WeatherNext models on Google Cloud Tool
Google DeepMind's AI weather forecasts, available as a developer API and as raw forecast data in Earth Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI, with ensemble scenarios out to 15 days.
TimesFM Tool
Google's pre-trained foundation model for time-series forecasting — predicting things that change over time, like demand, traffic, or sensor readings — usable out of the box without training your own model.
Nano Banana 2 Lite Tool
Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini image model - a text-to-image picture in about four seconds for roughly three cents per thousand images, built for high-volume use.
Gemma 4 26B A4B Tool
Google's compute-efficient multimodal model with 25.2 billion total parameters but only 3.8 billion active per token, aimed at running usefully on hardware that cannot host a dense model of comparable capability.
Gemma 4 Tool
Google's downloadable model family (2.3B-31B, dense and MoE) that natively handles text, vision, and audio, including a 12B encoder-free variant and a thinking mode.
Gemini Omni Flash Tool
Google's new video model offering developers programmable conversational editing - generate and revise clips up to ten seconds by describing changes in words.
Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite Tool
Google's economy-tier models went generally available on July 21, with 3.6 Flash keeping a million-token context and 64,000-token output while dropping its output price roughly a sixth versus 3.5 Flash and using about 17 percent fewer output tokens per task. Note the migration-breaking changes: some sampling parameters are deprecated and prefilled model turns are no longer supported.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Tool
Google's newly GA fast model streams output nearly twice as fast as 3.5 Flash and costs less per task while holding the same intelligence-index score, tuned for high-volume agent loops that use fewer tokens and tool calls.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use Tool
Google's fast model can now operate a browser, phone, or desktop directly as a built-in tool, with optional confirm-before-acting and auto-stop-on-attack safeguards for building automation agents.