AIAug 3, 2026Google AI Blog
Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course
Huge enrollment validates demand for agent-building skills, but the drop from registration to capstone work reveals the limits of headline participation metrics.
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AIJul 30, 2026Microsoft Research
Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
Microsoft’s Echoverse result is that computer-use agents improve more from deeper, checkable worlds than from adding more shallow sites.
AIJul 30, 2026Google DeepMind
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is Google’s attempt to make a robot’s planner watch video, time its next step and coordinate other machines without a stop-and-think pause.
AIJul 28, 2026Google AI Blog
Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more
Managed Agents are becoming a sandboxed worker with policy hooks and budgets, not just a one-shot coding call.
AIJul 28, 2026Google DeepMind
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Gemini Robotics 2’s claim is embodiment transfer: one intelligence layer for walking, two-handed work and on-device adaptation to new robot bodies.
AIJul 28, 2026Google AI Blog
5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search
Google is using dinner-party planning to show that Search’s AI Mode is becoming a visual, app-connected assistant rather than a list of links.
AIJul 28, 2026Google AI Blog
5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world
Google is positioning AI Mode as an offline-life planner, using calendar, shopping and ticket actions to justify more personal context in Search.
AIJul 22, 2026Google DeepMind
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google’s Genesis pledge is an in-kind compute and model package for DOE labs, not a cash grant, and its value will be measured in lab workflows rather than the headline figure.
AIJul 21, 2026Google DeepMind
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google is splitting the Flash line into a cheaper workhorse, a high-throughput Lite model and a restricted cyber specialist rather than shipping one general upgrade.
AIJul 17, 2026Google DeepMind
Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
Flash Cyber is Google’s bet that cheap, repeatable vulnerability search beats a single expensive model call, and it is being withheld from general developers for that reason.
AIJul 16, 2026Google AI Blog
Connect more of your apps to Search
Search is becoming an action bus for Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music, which matters more as a distribution fight than as a convenience feature.
AIJul 16, 2026Google AI Blog
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Google Vids is adding promptable editing and account-bound avatars, pushing Workspace video from templates toward identity-bearing synthetic media.