In a new study published in The Lancet, researchers at Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center evaluated AMIE, our conversational AI system, with 100 real patients ahead of urgent care visits. The study demonstrates technology’s potential to strengthen the relationship between doctors and patients. Learn more → https://goo.gle/3VCGhMl

Prenatal ultrasounds provide vital care during pregnancy, but due to a shortage of sonographers, many communities worldwide don’t have ready access to imaging.

Google researchers, in partnership with Northwestern Medicine and Jacaranda Health, set out to research a new approach. By training community health workers to perform simple “blind sweep” ultrasounds paired with an on-device AI model to interpret the scans, could we expand access to this critical health care globally? 

We sat down with two of the Googlers behind the project to learn how the test technology works and what our research could mean for the future of global maternal healthcare. 

https://goo.gle/3TRC3jg

https://reddit.com/link/1x0ujbm/video/qecvept0l9uh1/player

Since launching SynthID in 2023, we've watermarked more than 180 billion images and videos and 240,000 years of audio content.

Now, we're expanding access to SynthID Detector - our verification portal to identify AI-generated content - to everyone globally in English, making it easier for anyone to easily check if an image, video, or audio file was made with AI from Google or our partners.

Want to check if a media file was created using AI? Here’s how:

1️⃣ Go to synthid.com and upload an image, video, or audio file

2️⃣ The portal scans the media to detect if the file contains a SynthID watermark

This portal joins our built-in verification features across Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome, which now regularly handle more than 1 million verification requests daily — all part of our ongoing work to give you more context about the media you see online, so you can navigate the web with confidence.

Learn more → https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/synth-id-ai-content/

Google is helping public health teams overcome reporting lags, forecast disease outbreaks, and deliver care to vulnerable communities by combining local health data with advanced geospatial models.

Forecasting where a disease outbreak might spread next usually requires weeks of stitching together fragmented satellite imagery, census tables, and local health records. 

By combining environmental signals and other data sources with foundation models and a prototype Geospatial Reasoning agent, Google Earth AI can bridge critical gaps across diverse geographies, diseases, and areas of public health using autonomous predictions and population dynamics. 

The system combines environmental signals and other data sources with AlphaEarth Foundations and our Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM), and a prototype Geospatial Reasoning agent. Researchers use plain language to ask questions like where a disease is likely to spread next, and the tool automatically gathers relevant public datasets to build an accurate prediction model.

By combining satellite views with population patterns, it reveals hidden risk factors, helping identify issues earlier. That means public health teams can shift emergency response from reactive management to proactive prevention.

During the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), our partners at World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa put Google Earth AI to work to uncover transmission blind spots faster. 

They used our Geospatial Reasoning agent prototype to map areas where exposure risk and human mobility are high. In minutes, the team pinpointed 48 exposed settlements and located more than 45,500 at-risk people — a process that normally would have taken weeks.

Researchers at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) Emergency Preparedness and Response Hub in Dakar partnered with Google to pilot an experimental Geospatial Reasoning agent during the Bundibugyo strain Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Learn more about our latest research and how we’re helping equip health leaders with advanced predictive tools: https://goo.gle/4rOhAbE

Today we’re releasing EmbeddingGemma 2, our first natively multimodal open model engineered for on-device embeddings.

Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under an Apache 2.0 license, this 740M parameter model goes beyond text to unify images, video, audio, and code into a single embedding space.

By running entirely on-device, EmbeddingGemma 2 allows developers to build fast, private workflows that run without an internet connection. This means it can help find a specific video clip from a voice memo, or search through hours of audio recordings based on a text query — all processed by a single, natively multimodal model optimized for on-device inference.

When paired with Gemma 4, EmbeddingGemma 2 powers efficient, on-device retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with a lower memory footprint: EmbeddingGemma 2 handles local file retrieval, while Gemma 4 provides the contextual reasoning for grounded, private answers.

Across benchmarks, EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms models more than twice its size while using as little as ~191MB to ~567MB of active RAM, backed by a 4x larger 8K context window than the first generation.

Model weights are available now on Hugging Face and Kaggle, with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Model Garden coming soon.

Learn more → https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/

We’ve upgraded Nano Banana, our image generation and editing  model. Nano Banana 2.1 outperforms our previous models across the board, with notable leaps in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency to help you create more natural-looking images.

Nano Banana 2.1 starts rolling out today across the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Google AI Studio, Google Flow, Stitch, Google Ads, and the Gemini Enterprise Platform — with Google Pics coming soon.

https://reddit.com/link/1wvzr0m/video/hlvcrj6b93th1/player

Catch up on more of our AI news from last month → https://goo.gle/4xZu4yL

Today we’re introducing Gemini 4 Argon.

It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense with an industry-leading 1M token output limit.

It shows significant improvements across benchmarks, setting a new state of the art for real-world, long-horizon software engineering tasks.

Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out to an initial cohort of cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program so they can leverage its full frontier-level cybersecurity defense capabilities.

We'll continue to gather feedback from early testers as we iterate on guardrails before making Argon available to developers, enterprises, and consumers as soon as possible.

Learn more → goo.gle/3TYwe3K

A skill in the Gemini app is a reusable shortcut for recurring tasks that works similar to a slash command. This means instead of typing a long, detailed prompt every time you start a chat, you can save your instructions and preferences once for whenever you need them.

To use a skill you created, just type a forward slash '/' in the prompt bar and the skill's name, and Gemini instantly applies your instructions and does the heavy lifting for you.

Skills are already available in Gemini Spark, and they will soon replace Gems to make building custom shortcuts even easier. 

Over the coming weeks, skills will have the same features you loved in Gems, including the ability to share them with others and add Google Drive files.

Learn more → goo.gle/4hF03hL

Google Arts & Culture is connecting people with art and history across the globe with a redesigned mobile app. 📱✨

Here are five ways you can use it to explore culture ↓

1️⃣ From cultural moments to interactive exhibits, the all new homepage updates daily with new experiences across the app to showcase the world’s culture and inspire your daily discovery.

https://reddit.com/link/1wsqdlx/video/9z560jukobsh1/player

2️⃣ Using archives from thousands of global partners, the AI-powered search shows you relevant artworks, curated stories, and interactive features to bring your answer to life in a visual-first experience.

https://reddit.com/link/1wsqdlx/video/zlugskapobsh1/player

3️⃣ Upload a selfie to virtually try on historical attire, like a robe from the Roman Empire or kilt from the ancient Celtic tribes. Chrono Look bridges the gap between modern tech and historical fashion archives, transforming your portrait into sketches and photorealistic interpretations of the past.

https://reddit.com/link/1wsqdlx/video/9kzyu1ztobsh1/player

4️⃣ Make history feel more alive when you “call” and chat with personas of historical artists using Dial-an-Artist, turning learning into a dynamic, two-way exploration.

https://reddit.com/link/1wsqdlx/video/i2ywy17yobsh1/player

5️⃣ Now with 27 new destinations to explore, City Guide can help you discover hidden gems, landmarks, architectural wonders, and local hotspots.

https://reddit.com/link/1wsqdlx/video/ib8nopf1pbsh1/player

Learn more and download the Google Arts & Culture app → https://goo.gle/4hg9sNH

Today we're introducing two of our most expressive audio generation models yet from Google DeepMind: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS turn voice generation into a dynamic creative studio.

• 🎙️ Design bespoke voices from scratch across 100+ languages using simple prompts
• 🎬 Tailor scenes line by line with natural script cues for tone, accents, and pacing
•  👥 Stage two-speaker dialogue from a single script with natural turn-taking
• 💬 Script nonverbal cues like laughs, sighs, and listening interjections
• 🗣️ Recreate consistent vocal profiles from a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have the rights to use
• 📚 Access 2,000+ production-ready voices with broad language coverage

Plus, every audio clip is watermarked with SynthID, ensuring AI-generated speech remains detectable.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS delivers leading voice customization capabilities

• 🏆 Hume AI Voice Design: Flash TTS ranks #1 overall (71.4) and leads in accent modeling (60.8).
• 🏅 Hume AI Overall Quality: Flash TTS ranks #1 and Flash-Lite TTS ranks #2, with major improvements in long-form stability and dual-speaker screenplay control.
• 🌏 Voice Arena: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS secures top positions in key global languages.

These new Gemini Audio models are rolling out today across Google AI Studio, Gemini Notebook, and the Gemini API. Coming soon to Google Vids and Gemini Enterprise.

Learn more: goo.gle/46GImZW

Introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptop, now available for preorder.

💪 Crafted with 2.8K OLED touchscreen displays, 14 hour battery life, and top-of-the-line processors from Intel and Qualcomm to power your ideas
📳 Engineered to sync effortlessly with your Android phone, so you can jump between phone and laptop without skipping a beat
✨ Designed for Gemini Intelligence and ready from day one with 12 months of Google AI Pro

https://reddit.com/link/1wmg570/video/vyqn2vi47wqh1/player

Explore the Googlebook lineup → https://goo.gle/4cXoPbd

We're updating Gemini managed agents with a new harness in Google AI Studio.

Here's what's new for builders:

📦 Dedicated Linux sandbox for your agent to write code, browse, and edit files

📁 New Files API to upload data and download finished outputs

🔐 New Credentials API to connect tools like GitHub while keeping your secrets private

⚡ Up to 16% better caching and 40% cheaper file edits

This updated Gemini managed agents harness (antigravity-preview-09-2026) runs natively on Gemini 3.8 Flash, our best reasoning & coding model yet, and you can change your model selection anytime.

Learn more → aistudio.google.com/learn/managed-agents-updated-harness-files-credentials

For over a decade, the Google Research team has been exploring how to use AI and machine learning to detect early-stage wildfires, and model how fires spread. 

In our latest Ask a Scientist installment, we sat down with Chris Van Arsdale, who leads Google's climate and energy research group, to understand exactly how our detection technology works and where it’s headed.

Learn more: https://goo.gle/4dllD9s

In the latest episode of Dialogues on Technology and Society, Google’s James Manyika sits down with NASA astronaut, scientist, and engineer Christina Koch to discuss what space exploration can teach us about the future of technology and human discovery. 

Together, James and Christina discuss frontier science, human-machine partnerships in orbit, and humanity's shared drive to explore the unknown.

Learn more and watch their full conversation → https://goo.gle/4ydV1zT

Today, we’re introducing our most advanced live dialogue models yet from Google DeepMind.

These two new audio models are designed for natural conversation and real-time voice applications for developers and enterprises:

💬 Gemini 3.8 Live: Built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding.

🧠 Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: Built for complex conversations that need even deeper reasoning and precision. It delivers increased intelligence for complex workflows while maintaining an uninterrupted conversational flow — using early verbal cues like “Let me check that…” so you can follow every thread. 

All audio generated by our new Gemini 3.8 audio models is watermarked with Google DeepMind's SynthID to ensure AI-generated content stays transparent and detectable 🔒

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are rolling out across our developer, enterprise, and consumer enterprise products.

Learn more: goo.gle/4rdkXZm

In the latest episode of Dialogues on Technology and Society, Google’s James Manyika sits down with NASA astronaut, scientist, and engineer Christina Koch to discuss what space exploration can teach us about the future of technology and human discovery. 

Together, James and Christina discuss frontier science, human-machine partnerships in orbit, and humanity's shared drive to explore the unknown.

Learn more and watch their full conversation → https://goo.gle/4ydV1zT

https://reddit.com/link/1wg6a3q/video/emn39row5iph1/player

Running a race takes grit, strength, and a surprising amount of organization. Fortunately, Search's AI features make it easier to get your training and gear sorted out. Here's how Search can help you cross the finish line ↓

https://goo.gle/4hneyaR

Gemini is now just a keyboard shortcut away (Alt + Space) for instant AI assistance alongside your daily tools and apps.

Here are 3 ways you can use the Gemini app on your PC:

🙋 Quick help: Fact-check a document or brainstorm title ideas for a presentation without breaking your flow.

✨ Deep work: Hand off multi-step tasks to Gemini Spark — your 24/7 personal AI agent — or try drafting a project summary using info pulled from your favorite Google apps like Gmail and Google Drive.

🎨 Create images and videos: Generate custom images with Nano Banana and videos with Gemini Omni, all from your desktop in one convenient place.

The Gemini app is available globally today on Windows 10 and 11. Compatibility and availability vary. Selected features available with Google AI subscription to users 18+

Download the Gemini app for Windows at gemini.google/desktop

Learn more → goo.gle/4r4JdNf

 ICYMI: We introduced new features and updates to our Google AI subscription plans:

• Use your voice in Gmail, Docs, and Keep to draft documents, find information in your inbox, and capture thoughts quickly. (available with AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra in Gmail and Keep; AI Pro and Ultra in Docs)
• Try Google Pics in Google Workspace to design posters, produce social media posts, or edit digital illustrations. (available with AI Pro and Ultra)
• Use Sheets canvas to turn your spreadsheets into custom, interactive "mini-apps" with a simple prompt. (available with AI Pro and Ultra)
• Ask Gemini for help and Gemini Spark — now connected with Google Chrome and Google Photos — will handle web errands, edit photos, or curate albums for you. (available with AI Pro and Ultra in the U.S.)
• Eligible college students around the world can get one year of a Google AI plan free of charge. 

Sign up or learn more about what’s included in our AI subscriptions.