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Evaluates 3,611 health Q&As: Google AI Overviews cite sources poorly, miss quality signals traditional search ranked.

Google Gemini exhibits hesitancy on US election queries while more open internationally; geographic content policy variance.

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...

Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. However, that subscription is also getting a downgrade - it will soon no longer include Gemini Pro. Google says AI Plus subscribers will receive an email letting them know when they'll lose access to it. After these changes, access to the top-tier Gemini Pro model and a "Deep Think" advanced reasoning option will be res...

The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.

Google AI's Gemma model featured in winning Future Vision XPRIZE trailer 'The Gifted'; promotional content without technical details.

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in turmoil? Is it about Demis Hassabis wanting something more interesting to work on than virtual assistants? Or is there something else entirely happening here? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David start by discussing the leadership shake-up at Google, the state of the AI race, and whether Googl...

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google details Australia's unsuccessful war on emus, pairing paper cutout-style AI art of emus with narration. It adds to some of the other ways NotebookLM lets you interact with your research, including by generating AI podcasts, cinematic videos, and visual explainers. Doom scrolling but make it educational ...

Google AI explains full-stack approach to AI development, covering integrated hardware, software, and model design.

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

We used Google AI Studio to vibe code a quiz about our top I/O 2026 announcements.

Google AI announces community investments in Missouri workforce and energy programs.

Google AI Edge Gallery v1.0.13–14 adds Gemma 4 multi-token prediction, Pixel TPU support, experimental MCP, and chat history persistence.

Google introduces $100 AI Ultra subscription tier with new features across AI Plus/Pro/Ultra plans.

Google is announcing a major upgrade to one of its vibe coding platforms: Beginning today, you can now use AI Studio to build native Android apps. With Google AI Studio, you can prompt your idea for an app and preview it with an embedded emulator of Android. When you want to try it out on an actual phone, you can connect an Android device to your computer and install it. In the future, you'll also be able to invite app testers from AI Studio. It sounds like you won't be able to whip up just any old app of your dreams, though; in a blog post, Google says that this "initial release" of the func...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…

March 2026 recap of Google AI announcements; meta-summary lacks specific technical or strategic substance.

Project Genie lets Google AI Ultra subscribers create and explore infinite interactive worlds via experimental prototype.

Google applies Gemini LLM to dolphin communication analysis through DolphinGemma, a domain-specialized model variant.

Gemini 2.0 Flash now supports native image generation, available in Google AI Studio and Gemini API for developers.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite reaches general availability for production use on Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI.