The $300 million joint initiative aims to create a virtual cell for researchers to combat disease.

Google and other organizations have acknowledged vulnerabilities in their AI agents, which exploit trust gaps in the Model Context Protocol.

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a significant rise in AI submissions | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests AI agents that keep optimizing their own working environment quickly tend to overspecialize on their test tasks. A new method from Google Cloud AI Research and several universities aims to prevent that while also cutting compute costs.

Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro Starting in October 2026, Google will restrict access to its Gemini models for personal account users.

Subtopic Dpo · Fine Tuning · Distillation Takeaways − Cohere released North Small Translate , a 218B / 25B-active MoE translation model with open weights. Scores 83.60 on WMT26 across 50+ languages, beating DeepL NextGen (81.37) and Google Translate (68.20).

Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity An essay for the Deepmind Institute challenges the familiar image of a lone superintelligence.

After evolving from an Apple-made, client-side language and years of false starts, Swift could finally make it on the server.

The latest AI news we announced in September 2026 Here’s a recap of some of our biggest AI updates from September, including Gemini 4 Argon, new Connected Apps in the Gemini App, and WeatherNext 3. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Toward provably private learning from federated data Toward provably private learning from federated data Katharine Daly, Software Engineer, and Daniel Ramage, Research Director, Google Research We announce a new Federated Learning system that provides externally verifiable privacy guarantees while shifting computation to the server to improve training speed, accuracy, and device coverage.

In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google.

Quick Apps could already bring live data into an app from connectors and content sources: action connectors (services like Jira, Slack, and Google Drive),…

Gemini. It only took Google seven months (February to September) to release their next frontier model.

AI Argon aims to return Google to the frontier PLUS: How (and why) to set up Meta’s Muse Desktop Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,879 new readers who joined us yesterday.

GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February (3.1 Pro), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last…

Intro​ Weaviate v1.39.3 includes a fix for a high severity credential disclosure vulnerability in Weaviate's Google-backed modules, where an unvalidated…

On Tuesday, executives for Google , Anthropic , Meta , OpenAI , xAI , and Nvidia all signed “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which was announced following a luncheon held by President Donald Trump.

Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models.

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence Gemini 4 Argon delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense. SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon model brings advanced reasoning to complex, long-horizon professional tasks.

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide…

How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation Chih-wei Hsu and Moonkyung Ryu , Software Engineers, Google Research We introduce Diffusion Controller, a lightweight "steering damper" network that precisely steers image generation to achieve significantly better prompt alignment.

Add Boston.com as your preferred source on Google to see more of our stories. Two major record labels are suing Cambridge-based AI music-pgenerating platform Suno for copyright infringement, the latest in an onslaught of a half-dozen lawsuits pending against the company in the U.S.

AI Meta's Connect turns into a Muse takeover PLUS: Use Gemini Canvas to visualize Google Sheets Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 4,981 new readers who joined us yesterday. Meta’s viral Muse and its adorable mascot are everywhere right now, and they’re about to show up in two new places — on your face and in your hand.

Automating coherent long-form video generation Automating coherent long-form video generation Yale Song and Yiwen Song, Research Scientists, Google We introduce a unified multi-agent framework that autonomously generates temporally consistent, long-form video narratives, overcoming the identity drift and cascading failures of current linear AI pipelines.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar brings real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI. By natively coupling our live dialogue capabilities with low-latency streaming video, Live Avatar enables a more natural and intuitive conversational experience for enterprises and their users.

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, partnering with Industrious for an extended network, and proving our impact at Google and beyond. Director, Business Development, Google Beam Your browser does not support the audio element.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids.

Pinecone BYOC: Trusted AI Knowledge in the Customer Cloud Today, we are announcing the general availability of Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, bringing Pinecone’s trusted AI knowledge platform to where enterprise data needs to live. AI becomes transformative when it works with a company’s proprietary knowledge.

Three AI image generators are pulling ahead of the pack this September, and each one wins for a completely different reason. Google s Nano Banana Pro (officially Gemini 3 Pro Image) renders text inside images with 94% accuracy on a widely cited 29-prompt benchmark, against just 10% for Midjourney.

MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics Aymane Lotfi, Software Engineer, Ads & Commerce, and Thibaut Cuvelier, Software Engineer, Google Research MilleMiglia bridges the gap between academic theory and industrial logistics by providing open-source, realistic benchmarks that allow researchers to optimize complex middle-mile networks, ultimately leading to more robust and efficient...

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion, Professor Ajay Agrawal, and leading researchers join Google’s AI & Economy program to expand our scientific understanding of AI’s impact on economic activity worldwide.

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google Two fashion designers created custom tools in Google Flow to help with set design and styling for New York Fashion Week. Your browser does not support the audio element.

The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI Gal Elidan, Research Scientist, and Yael Haramaty, Product Manager, Google Research We explore how we can harness generative UI with learning design guardrails to give teachers the ability to generate guided, interactive simulations for...

UN System Data Commons is an open, AI-ready platform integrating critical global statistics into a single searchable resource. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train Pengcheng Jiang, Student Researcher, and Judith Yue Li, Senior Research Engineer, Google Research Instead of relying on expensive inference-time reasoning, the Retrieve-for-Train framework uses reinforcement learning once to train a lightweight diffusion model.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet. Major upgrades in intelligence and parallel reasoning make them more intuitive to collaborate with and use to execute complex tasks using your voice.

We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed. SVP, Research, Labs, Technology & Society Google is using AI to help people communicate in hundreds of languages, including those that were previously left out of technology.

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. SVP, Research, Labs, Technology & Society Your browser does not support the audio element.

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS New data visualizations make ATLAS data easier to explore and use, while new research provides insights on how scientists are using AI. AI & Economy Lead, Chief Economist's Office Head of StratOps and Special Projects, Technology & Society Your browser does not support the audio element.

ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients" Zhongyi Zhou, Research Scientist, and Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, Google XR ToolGrad is a data generation framework that reverses the traditional paradigm by first generating tool-use answers before user queries. We show this design enables LLMs to achieve better tool-use performance.

SPONSORED BY ODSC AIODSC AI West 2026 runs October 27–29 in San Francisco and virtually, with 300+ sessions covering agentic AI for enterprise, personal…

Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations Joey Poomarin Phloyphisut, Software Engineer, and Cory McLean, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research We evaluate ways to improve cross-population genetic risk prediction and find that while transfer learning from European cohorts improves prediction in small underrepresented populations, it degrades accuracy once target cohort...

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain Michał Januszewski and Viren Jain, Research Scientists, Google Research We partnered with HHMI Janelia and collaborators in Cambridge, U.K., to publish a complete map of the male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system, creating the largest brain map to...

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model Our flagship AI weather forecasting model now includes real-time satellite data, hourly refreshes, higher resolution, precise precipitation forecasting, and clean energy variables. It’s now integrated across Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program, a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our most advanced cyber defense capabilities. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.

Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning Vishal Batchu, Research Engineer, and Michelangelo Conserva, Research Scientist, Google Research The Methane Analysis and Plume Localization with EMIT model is a deep-learning framework that automates the detection, enhancement quantification, and source estimation of methane plumes globally, turning raw satellite data into...

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If you use AI at work, the tools you rely on could change again before February. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, several Chinese labs, and a group of world-model startups are all preparing or rumored to be preparing new releases.

Note from Andrey: apologies for the newsletter not having resumed yet - the next release is going to come tomorrow, and it will resume weekly cadence…

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3 , the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B , achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models such as DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro.