Tag: Google
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Google Open Sources Harness2 for Self-Improving AI Agents
On October 9, 2026, researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and Northwestern University posted Harness²: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World and released the accompanying code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. The framework improves an AI agent’s harness — the prompts, tools, memory, skills and orchestration wrapped around a model — while […]
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Gemini 4 Argon Goes Global With a 1M-Token Output Limit
Lead — On October 13, 2026, Google opened general access to Gemini 4 Argon, the frontier model it announced on September 30 for long-horizon work in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense. Argon is now available to developers and enterprises through the Gemini API in AI Studio and the Gemini platform, to Google […]
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NHC Leaned on DeepMind AI to Forecast Hurricane Isaias
Lead — Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, at 8:30 p.m. CDT on October 9, 2026, as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph (169 km/h) winds. What made the storm notable beyond the Gulf Coast was how its forecast was made: for the first time in a US landfall threat, National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasters […]
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Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Multimodal Search on the Device
Lead — On October 6, 2026, Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter open model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single shared 768-dimensional vector space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and shipped under the commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, it is designed to run on phones and laptops rather […]
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Google Gives Gemini 3.8 Live a Face With Live Avatar
On September 24, 2026, Google released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which adds near real-time generated video to its speech-to-speech dialogue model. The avatar has a face that lip-syncs to the voice, changes expression, and takes turns in the conversation, so an enterprise voice agent can now appear as a video call. The feature […]
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Gemini Adds Agentic Video Understanding, Cutting Tokens by up to 88%
On September 1, 2026, Google added agentic video understanding to the Gemini API — a processing mode that lets the model decide which parts of a video to actually look at, instead of ingesting the whole thing at a fixed frame rate. On Google’s benchmarks the change cuts token consumption by up to 88% and […]
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Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Big Coding Jump in a Three-Week Point Release
On August 13, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash — just 23 days after Gemini 3.6 Flash, and built on the same architecture and training data. The model card is explicit that this is not a new pretraining run but “algorithmic improvements to its core reasoning foundation.” The gains are concentrated almost entirely in […]
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Google Open-Sources WeatherNext: Cyclone Forecasts Gain a Day
On August 6, 2026, Google DeepMind released the code and model weights for its WeatherNext forecasting family on GitHub, alongside a Nature paper reporting that its cyclone model gives forecasters roughly an extra day of warning on tropical storm track, intensity, and size. The release covers three variants — WeatherNext Cyclones, the general-purpose WeatherNext 2, […]
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Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash Cuts Agent Token Costs by up to 65%
On July 21, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber — a refresh of the entire Flash tier aimed squarely at teams running AI agents at scale. The headline claim is not a higher intelligence ceiling but a lower bill: 3.6 Flash uses 17% fewer output tokens […]
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Google Ships Gemma 4 QAT Models: 72% Less VRAM, Same Quality
Lead — On June 5, 2026, Google DeepMind released quantization-aware training (QAT) checkpoints for the entire Gemma 4 family, cutting memory requirements by roughly 72% while keeping output quality nearly identical to the full-precision models. The release spans every size — from the sub-1 GB E2B edge model to the 31B dense flagship — and […]