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LiteRT in Google Play services receives its biggest upgrade: GPU inference based on ML Drift is about 1.4x faster than the old GPU delegate and is provided through the new CompiledModel API. After switching to this runtime, app size shrinks by about 8 MB, because the runtime is distributed uniformly with Play services and is no longer packaged into the APK; currently more than 100,000 Android apps already bundle LiteRT or TensorFlow Lite. This solution supports Android 7 and above, Wear OS 4+, a

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Google is expanding AI Mode ads to 10 new markets—Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore—and plans to further cover Brazil, Mexico, and the UK in Q4 2026. Google says queries in AI Mode are on average 3 times longer than traditional search, and the click-through rates of sponsored product listings and organic product listings are now similar. Meanwhile, Google is launching multi-turn ads in the US for follow-up questions in AI Mo

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Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it its strongest model, ranking first with 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, and achieving 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench. The model is aimed at long-horizon engineering tasks; an internal team once had it run continuously for several days to investigate and fix hidden defects in a large codebase, and it rose to 4th place on WebDev Arena with 1,768 points. Starting this week, Ca

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Google Research and the Stanford Learning Accelerator have launched Polar Peaks, the third course in the AI Quests series, aimed at students aged 11 to 14, letting them play the role of researchers scanning and mapping brain neurons, practicing data cleaning and model testing, and understanding that AI requires human oversight. The course was inspired by Google's more than a decade of connectomics research; AI Quests has completed over 400,000 quests in total and has been localized into 10 langu

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Google's partnership with Ignite Energy Access achieved more than 160 kT CO2e in emissions reductions in the first half of 2026, and has delivered 3.7 million solar devices in sub-Saharan Africa since 2023. The two parties use satellite imagery, the Open Buildings dataset and smart routing algorithms to locate remote households without addresses, and use a computer vision model fine-tuned on Gemini for Science to identify individual rooftop solar panels from space. The partnership has now expand

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Google.org is providing $2.5 million in support to the World Bank Group to scale digital public infrastructure for agriculture, with the goal of helping 1 million farmers access key services that improve their livelihoods by the end of 2027. Following the success of a pilot in India, the World Bank Group will build the AI-driven Open Network for Agriculture (ONA) in multiple countries across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, enabling farmers to access digital farmer IDs, cre

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Google has partnered with USO to deploy HP Dimension 3D video communication devices powered by Google Beam to 20 USO sites worldwide, helping service members stationed abroad stay connected with their families through lifelike 3D video. The technology captures body language and eye contact in real time; it was previously piloted between Trzebień, Poland and Fort Bliss, Texas, and is now expanding to Grafenwöhr, Germany and Fort Hood, Texas. Google has also released a documentary directed by vete

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A new paper from Google DeepMind and several top universities shows that the best-performing AI agent in the test solved 49 of 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems, each roughly equivalent to a day's work for a domain expert, at a cost of under $3 per problem. The problems were contributed by experts from their own research, and the agents answered independently, split into two groups—with and without internet access—and were scored only on the final numerical answer. GPT-6

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Historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote in Foreign Affairs, comparing OpenAI and Anthropic to colonial-era East India Companies, arguing that they negotiate with governments but remain constrained by them. The article cites the example of the U.S. Commerce Department in June requiring Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals' access to its two most powerful models; because Anthropic could not verify users' nationalities in real time, it took Fab

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A paper from the University of Toronto and Google argues that GEO (generative engine optimization) benchmarks need unified rules on permitted webpage edits, otherwise scores cannot be compared. The paper labels each type of GEO edit by where the change is made, how it is made, and the cue it targets (such as authority), and recommends that tests report visibility, answer quality, and rule compliance together. The paper conducted no experiments; its evidence is a review of 11 published GEO method

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A new Google DeepMind paper finds that the same AI assistant was seen by some employees as a savior and by others as a source of stress, because it acts on its own without being asked. The agent ran for 5 months across more than 20 teams at a large tech company, and researchers interviewed 17 users; it treated outdated documents as current, tagged a VP on 16 bugs, shared a poster draft before the author was ready, and misread sarcastic tone. Some users called it a savior, while others felt surve

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Google has begun rolling out Gemini to users in Google Maps on Apple CarPlay. A Gemini star icon appears on the right side of the navigation interface; tapping it lets users issue multi-step, open-ended commands by voice. Users can ask Gemini to recommend scenic spots, check how crowded a place is and suggest quieter times, specify routes that avoid toll roads, and report congestion and accidents while driving. The feature launches first in the United States and will expand globally in the comin

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TestingCatalog points out that the string "build arena andwise si comparison", which Google uses internally for model comparison, suggests that its naming may be shifting from "AI" to "SI". The author also lists examples such as SpaceXSI, MSL, and SSI, and speculates whether this naming will spread to MAI, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence, and others.

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The UK announced it will establish a national-level AI biosecurity laboratory, supported jointly by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, with the government investing £100 million for this purpose, while OpenAI and Anthropic will additionally provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million. The laboratory is officially described as the world's first institution dedicated to AI biosecurity; it will use AI to detect and monitor biosecurity threats and will cooperate with Google DeepMind

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the UK will establish a national-level artificial intelligence biosecurity laboratory for detecting and monitoring biosecurity threats, jointly supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. The UK government will invest 100 million pounds for this purpose, and OpenAI and Anthropic will additionally provide AI model usage credits worth up to 200 million pounds; the laboratory will also cooperate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research. The announcement also include

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Alex Heath relays Sundar Pichai's explanation for Demis Hassabis stepping down as head of DeepMind and Jeff Dean leaving Google. Pichai called it a natural evolution after the individuals' long-term commitment, and mentioned that Jeff Dean will go work on Discovery Loop; he said frontier model development has become high-intensity, large-scale work spanning data, compute, algorithms, and team management, while Hassabis wants to devote more time to safely advancing the frontier and using AGI to s

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