Google has released two new models, Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, designed to enhance near real-time reasoning for voice agents and improve the fluidity of AI conversations.
Google has released Gemini 3.8, featuring two new variants: Gemini 3.8 Flash for general reasoning and coding tasks, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber specialized for cybersecurity applications. Both models maintain the speed and low cost of the previous 3.7 Flash generation while delivering significant performance improvements.
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model designed for intelligent voice interactions that converts raw audio into accurate, polished text while handling background noise and disfluencies.
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a platform containing predictions for the effects of 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across the entire human genome. This resource aims to accelerate biological understanding by providing a comprehensive map of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology.
Google DeepMind and Google Research have introduced WeatherNext 3, an advanced global weather AI model that generates hourly forecasts at high spatial resolutions by learning directly from real-time satellite observations. This update provides forecasts roughly five times sharper than its predecessor, WeatherNext 2, enabling more localized predictions for critical weather events.
Google has launched the Fairwind Program to provide trusted government agencies, enterprise partners, and cybersecurity organizations with early access to advanced AI capabilities for proactive cyber defense. The initiative combines the specialized Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model with the CodeMender harness to help defenders autonomously find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities at scale.
Google has launched the Fairwind Program to provide government agencies, enterprise customers, and cybersecurity partners with access to advanced AI capabilities for proactive cyber defense. The initiative aims to help defenders autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities at scale by combining the specialized reasoning of Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber with the CodeMender harness.
Google has introduced agentic video understanding for its latest Gemini models, enabling dynamic analysis that reduces token usage by up to 88% while improving accuracy by up to 7%. This capability allows the models to actively search and inspect specific video segments rather than processing frames at a fixed rate.
Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities designed to make the model production-ready for professional use via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
Google has launched the world's first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier-class AI model in partnership with the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVERI, and MLCommons. The pilot tests a Gemini Flash Lite model against confidential benchmarks within a privacy-preserving environment to prevent benchmark contamination.
Google is expanding its AI & Economy Research Program by welcoming world-class economists to help analyze how artificial intelligence reshapes jobs and businesses. This move aims to unite fine-grained data with rigorous economic inquiry to support organizations, workers, and policymakers.
The UN system is launching the UN System Data Commons, an open-source platform built on Google's Data Commons that unites global statistics into a single interconnected resource known as an AI-ready knowledge graph. Supported by Google.org, the project aims to make critical data universally accessible and help track global progress in real time.
Google has launched an interactive, open-access experience for its AI & Economy ATLAS dataset alongside new research from Google DeepMind and MIT FutureTech regarding how scientists use AI.
Google reports its technologies now support over 300 languages for more than 7 billion people, introducing new tools to improve speech understanding, data collection for underrepresented languages, and accessibility.
Google announced that its technologies now support more than 300 languages spoken by 7 billion people and released new interactive insights via the AI & Economy ATLAS to track global AI usage. The company highlighted recent scientific breakthroughs, including the AlphaGenome Atlas mapping genetic changes and WeatherNext 3 delivering more accurate precipitation forecasts.
In collaboration with filmmaker Liz Garbus and Primordial Soup, Google DeepMind utilized generative AI models to reconstruct an unphotographed meeting between Burt and Ethelle Shatz for the documentary short "Love, Rendered." The project addresses cognitive decline by recreating a specific memory that existed only in the couple's minds.
Google released a roundup of its August 2026 AI announcements, highlighting the Gemini app surpassing 1 billion monthly users and the launch of the cost-efficient Gemini 3.7 Flash model for coding and agents.
Google is rolling out Google Pics, an image creation and editing tool built on the Nano Banana model, to all Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers over the coming weeks.
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, native speech-to-speech models designed for real-time voice agents that reason and execute tools without breaking conversational flow.
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 with improved coding and agentic performance, while Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash offering enhanced reasoning capabilities at the same introductory pricing as its predecessor.