Vol. I · No. 199WED, NOV 4, 2026
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Task-Preserving Multilingual Instruction Tuning for Open-Ended QA in WMT 2026 MIST

This paper describes our submission to the WMT 2026 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task. We adapt Qwen3-8B with LoRA using organiser-provided data, EuroAlpaca, a multilingual instruction dataset created through task-preserving localisation, and CrossEuroAlpaca, a cross-lingual augmentation that assigns different source and target languages to instructions, contexts and responses. Our system targets open-ended question answering (QA-OEG) in ten shared-task languages represented in the auxiliary data. Under matched decoding, adaptation improves the mean Gemma-4 judge score on target-language Q...

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Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline

Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Similar to AI note-taking apps like Granola and Wispr Flow, Foresight summarizes your meetings while providing a space where you can take your own notes. Google says you can jot down shorthand bullet points during your meeting, and the app will transform them into "polished notes" based on the information in the transc...

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EmbeddingGemma 2

Simon Willison praises EmbeddingGemma 2's Apache 2.0 license, arguing open-weight embedding models reduce vendor lock-in risk for production deployments.

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Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Google outlines Gemma's role in accelerating scientific research and improving real-world outcomes.

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AI for everyone in every language

Google extends Gemma multilingual capabilities beyond text translation to preserve nuance across world languages.

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3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

Google Search adds race registration alerts and training plan features for runners; unrelated to Gemma or frontier AI.

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The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

Google announces August 2026 AI updates; article lacks specific details on Gemma releases or capabilities.

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Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Google and Kaggle launched a free 353,000-person course on AI agents using Gemma, focused on building and deploying agent systems.

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