AI BriefingThe latest AI and developer news about #google, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #google, with the original source and a short summary.
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA have launched AEMA to establish AI data center standards that dynamically adjust power usage based on grid conditions.
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, supporting background reasoning during conversations and language switching across 97 languages.
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe, supporting real-time voice conversations and high-precision transcription.
Google has released four use cases for Gemini in supporting household chores, along with an estimate of their economic value.
Google unveiled AI-driven scientific research acceleration achievements, including genetic variant mapping via AlphaGenome Atlas, a 50% improvement in precipitation forecast accuracy with WeatherNext 3, and global crisis prediction through the Planetary Prediction Engine.
Google has released 'Agent Substrate', an open-source runtime that enables AI agents to run at 10x higher density on GKE and restart in under 500ms.
Google has released ARTEMIS, an open-source tool that enables AI agents to operate real Android phones via natural language commands, achieving a task completion rate of over 99% on the AndroidWorld benchmark.
Google will host over 800 DevFest events worldwide from October to December 2026.
Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have launched their frontier AI models in separate public and vetted versions, with benchmarked models accessible only to identity-verified organizations.
The release of A2A Protocol 1.0 establishes a standard for delegating agent tasks across heterogeneous frameworks.
Google has released ARTEMIS, an open-source AI agent that autonomously executes and tests Android apps using natural language commands.
Google has made its personalized story generation app Dreambeans available to all accounts in the US.
Google has launched the Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11, enabling instant access to AI features via the Alt+Space shortcut.
Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants.
Google is investing €13 billion in Finland to build three new data centers and secure a long-term purchase of half of the nuclear power.
Google has released Gemini-based TPU development agent tools that assist with PyTorch to JAX conversion and kernel optimization.
Anthropic has signed computing contracts worth approximately $517 billion to secure 14.8GW of capacity over the past 11 months.
Google has unveiled WeatherNext 3, a next-generation weather AI model that directly learns from real-time satellite data to generate hourly forecasts at a 5km resolution.
Google and Cathay Pacific tested AI-based contrail avoidance technology on ultra-long-haul Asia-Pacific routes, reducing warming impact by approximately 40%.
Google and Cathay Pacific reduced warming impact by 40% through AI-based contrail avoidance trials on ultra-long-haul flights in the Asia-Pacific region.
Google is expanding Gemini Desktop into a super app competing with Codex and Claude by adding Ask/Assign modes and local file control features.
Google leveraged the headless mode of Antigravity CLI to automate the refactoring of over 30 DAOs during Spanner migration.
Google has launched Lyria 3.5, a richer and more expressive music generation model, in the Gemini app and API.
Google has released WeatherNext 3, trained on real-time satellite data, offering 5km high-resolution and hourly update capabilities.