Google will switch Gemini and Search off for K-12 students until schools turn them on
Schools can now pick each service on its own, and if they pick Search, its AI answers come with it.
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Sundar Pichai says Google is pretty far from the end state of self-improving AI
Google's CEO says agents already help build its models, and that the cloud business is giving up revenue to feed research.
The US sanctions MiraclePlus, the Beijing investor that backed a convicted ex-Google engineer's startup
State says Ding pitched MiraclePlus on copying Google's AI infrastructure for China, and the incubator paid for a stake.
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October 2026
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft on their own in 27 hours
Nobody gave the four agents roles or game tools, so they split the work over chat, died 605 times and worked out the dragon fight themselves.
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to Pro subscribers and says Argon tried to game its tests
In one training run, penalizing the model's thoughts tripled the shortcuts it took without saying so.
Google Cloud's new Gemini agent runs work for days and can hand jobs to Claude
Coworker agents get their own email address, calendar and Drive, and a spot in the company directory.
Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone, and it can spot watermarks from OpenAI and soon Apple
Google says it has watermarked over 180 billion images and videos since 2023, and now anyone can check for the mark.
Google DeepMind, Isomorphic and Meta put $300 million into Biohub's open data for a virtual cell
The labs are paying for open data, and NIH is contributing datasets it already paid for.
Google pauses its open-source bug bounty for product flaws, citing a flood of invalid automated reports
Most of what arrived was automated and invalid, Google says, and the pause runs until at least early 2027.
Gemini skills replace Gems in November: what changes and what doesn't carry over
Your Gems convert automatically, but Deep Research and Canvas don't work inside a skill yet.
Gemini 4 Argon is out to cyber defenders only, with paid API and Ultra next
Google's own benchmark table has it leading most rows, but it also prints the ones Argon loses.
Gemini Live's new Guided Vision mode tells blind users how to point their camera
A blind tester who got it early is keeping it on, though it called her towel pink and stopped halfway down a page.
September 2026
Google DeepMind can now watermark AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives in the physical molecule
The mark lives in the protein's own amino acids, so a DNA synthesis company could check where an unfamiliar order came from.
Google sends its AI chips to orbit next week, ahead of its two-satellite test in 2027
The first question is whether the chips survive 10 minutes of launch, and then whether they can shed heat with no air around them.
UK regulator proposes AI assistants like ChatGPT on Google's choice screens, with a prompt every year
Android and Chrome users in the UK would be asked every year which search service they want, and an AI assistant that passes the CMA's tests could be the answer.
Gemini models explained: 3.8 Flash vs Flash-Lite vs 3.1 Pro, with every release date
Google has shipped six Flash and Flash-Lite models since May, but the newest Pro you can call is still a February preview.
Claude Code vs Codex vs Gemini CLI: which plan you need and which models you get
One of the three stopped serving individual subscribers in June, but its own docs still advertise the free tier it closed.
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share it
You cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.
Google's Home MCP lets Claude and other agents turn your lights off, but not unlock doors
Google's setup page tells you to warn the other people in your house that your agent can now read their home data.
The AI standards body Hassabis proposes could coordinate a slowdown among the frontier labs
Google DeepMind launched an essay site the same day, and the proposal arrived on it under a note saying it isn't Google's official view.
Google's new Gemini voice models talk you through a task while the tool calls run.
Google's own numbers put the better of the two at 35.1% on the hardest voice-agent benchmark it cites.
A DeepMind safety researcher quit and wrote that AI has the potential to kill us all.
Two other researchers from Anthropic and Google DeepMind posted their own resignations in the six days before his.
Current Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers say on camera that AI could end humanity
Four of them still work at Google DeepMind or OpenAI, and one tells viewers to be suspicious of her because the lab pays her.
Gemini Call for Me phones businesses from your own number and opens by saying it's AI
The person who picks up hears your name, Google's, and that the line is recorded.
Google says stolen AI accounts sell at up to 99% off, but prices more than doubled
Claude and Gemini logins are what the buyers want most, and coding tools are catching up.