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 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.