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Google/Gemini

Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.

AISep 14, 2026MIT Technology Review

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

DeepMind put 100 Gemini agents in a fake math conference and watched cheating spread — then watched other agents spontaneously blow the whistle.

AISep 10, 2026The Verge

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

Slackforce Surfaces lets Slackbot turn a plain-language ask into interactive dashboards, decks, and microsites inside the chat—where the work already lives.

AISep 10, 2026Ars Technica

Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google

Vendors, unions, and pilots are fighting Google’s bankruptcy-auction buy of Spirit Airlines’ operational dataset—warning that trade secrets and worker mail could train AI without consent.

AISep 9, 2026Ars Technica

Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

Google's AlphaGenome Atlas scores every possible single-base swap in the human genome—precomputing hints for non-coding variants that used to mean months of specialized guesswork.

AISep 9, 2026Google AI Blog

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

Google DeepMind's "Love, Rendered" turns generative image and performance models into a memory aid for a 70-year marriage—beautiful when guided by the couple, uneasy when the product pitch arrives.

AISep 8, 2026The Verge

Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race

After billions spent overhauling an ailing AI position, Meta is pitching Muse as the mass-market agent—ease of use and a privacy story—against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

AISep 8, 2026Ars Technica

Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy

WeatherNext 3 adds raw satellite inputs and hourly runs, cutting reanalysis lag—and posting measurable gains over WeatherNext 2 and ECMWF’s AI model, with a few odd artifacts.

AISep 8, 2026TechCrunch

Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud’s Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group buys consulting feet on the ground—up to 1,000 trained FDEs—because model share alone is not converting hyperscale CapEx into sticky enterprise ROI.

AISep 8, 2026TechCrunch

Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Chrome 153 lands on a two-week cadence—halving the old four-week train—as Google treats AI-boosted vuln discovery and AI-boosted attacks as reasons to shrink the N-day gap.

AISep 8, 2026The Verge

Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments

DeepMind turns AlphaGenome into a precomputed catalog of roughly nine billion single-letter DNA variants, aiming to make mutation triage a lookup rather than a bespoke model run.

AISep 5, 2026TechCrunch

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

A Mount Shasta rescue after Gemini-planned packing turns consumer AI advice into a public-safety footnote — and a credibility problem for trip-planning chatbots.

AISep 4, 2026TechCrunch

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can now edit Photos, curate albums, and turn flyer shots into calendar events — but only for U.S. Pro and Ultra subscribers, rolling out slowly.