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Research, Gemini product work, and automated discovery paths split from a central AI leadership table

Google reshuffles DeepMind as Discovery Loop spins out

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Google Maps turns Ask Maps into an agent for local tasks

A managed Gemini agent runs tool calls through policy hooks, budget gauges, and scheduled worker lanes inside a cloud sandbox

Google turns Gemini Managed Agents into scheduled, governed workers

Developer work lanes compare coding, agent tasks, reasoning effort, and billing controls for Gemini 3.6 Flash in Copilot

Gemini 3.6 Flash rolls into GitHub Copilot

GitHub says Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash is rolling out in Copilot with configurable reasoning effort and parallel tool use.

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Google brings Nano Banana image generation into Search AI Overviews

Google's 25th-anniversary Images update adds a personalized image home and brings Nano Banana image generation into AI Overviews.

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Demis Hassabis calls for a US-led frontier AI watchdog

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test frontier AI models before release, including open and closed systems.

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Genkit makes full-stack agents a shared backend and client contract

Google's Genkit Agents preview packages conversational-agent plumbing behind a server-defined agent and a shared chat interface for frontend apps.

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Google ADK 2.0 puts workflows around agents

Google's ADK 2.0 framing separates deterministic workflow routing from open-ended model reasoning, giving production agents a stricter execution boundary.

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Google gives coding agents an eval flywheel instead of another prompt tweak

Google's new quality-flywheel skill lets coding agents run structured agent evaluations with independent grading and production-trace loops.

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Google UK ties its AI productivity case to worker training

Google's UK update pairs large economic-impact claims with an AI skills push aimed at closing the adoption gap.

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Google Finance turns portfolio tracking into an AI briefing workflow

Google Finance is adding portfolio ingestion, scheduled market briefings, and a new Android app as AI moves into recurring consumer finance tasks.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash gets a Computer Use tool for agent workflows

Google's Gemini API now previews Computer Use with browser, mobile, and desktop environments, making execution safety and logging part of the developer workflow.

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Gemini API adds TTS streaming as media model shutdown dates arrive

Google's Gemini API changelog added streaming speech generation for a preview TTS model and set near-term shutdown dates for older Imagen and Veo model IDs.

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Google puts $1.5B into its Alabama data-center campus

Google says it will invest $1.5B across 2026 and 2027 to expand its Jackson County, Alabama data-center campus while covering its power and infrastructure costs.

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Google releases DiffusionGemma for faster local text generation

Google's DiffusionGemma is an experimental open text-diffusion model that generates blocks of text in parallel for lower-latency local workflows.

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Google brings Gemini models to Apple developers

Google says Apple developers can call Gemini models through Apple's Foundation Models framework and use Gemini inside Xcode.

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Google releases Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints for local models

Google's Gemma 4 QAT release adds Q4_0 and mobile checkpoints, cutting Gemma 4 E2B to a 1GB memory footprint for local and on-device use.

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Google releases Gemma 4 12B for local multimodal agents

Google's Gemma 4 12B is a 12B-parameter open model for local multimodal work, with 16GB memory guidance, native audio inputs, and a 256K-token context window.

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Google rolls out Gemini Omni Flash for video generation

Gemini Omni Flash turns mixed inputs into video and is rolling into Gemini, Flow, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube Create before the API arrives.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash beats last year's Pro on the work builders ship

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash beats last year's 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks at ~40% lower cost — with reasoning and 1M-context limits worth testing.

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