Google AI & Product Pulse

• Free expansion: Google Vids now offers AI video generation at no cost to anyone with a personal Google account.
• Gemini-powered tools: Native 1080p...

• Poisoned web content tricks Gemini into directing users to scam centers via manipulated search results
• Malicious Chrome extensions hijack Gemini...

WhatWorkedBench tests whether AI research agents can accurately predict how component changes affect experimental outcomes after limited trials....

Google's Call for Me feature has progressed from early testing to a controlled rollout, letting Gemini act as a phone agent for tasks like...

Chrome's Gemini 3 update, announced in January, introduced Auto Browse as it evolves into a cross-device AI workspace.

Google rolled out a new Multimodal filter in Search Console's Performance report today, separating image-based searches from text...

Google Lens transforms your phone's camera into a powerful visual search tool, letting you identify items, translate text, search the web, and save information instantly.

• Hardware advances have slowed, with phones feeling nearly identical year to year.
• 46% of buyers rank long software support as their top priority,...

Google's Project Suncatcher moves from vision to orbit in one week. Early tests target scaling AI compute in space, with the team sharing findings...

YouTube is adding comparison tables and product Q&A to Ask YouTube, transforming conversational video search into a direct shopping pathway. Announced...

Google Maps on Android Auto now ties traffic lights and stop signs to your route's floating turn labels, making them far more noticeable at a glance without pop-up alerts. This small tweak could reduce sudden braking in unfamiliar areas.

Gemini now lets users select, brighten, and share family portraits with a single prompt via Photos in Gemini Spark, evolving Google Photos from a static library into an interactive editor for curating summer memories.

YouTube's Made on YouTube event marks a shift from isolated tools to managing the full creator pipeline—research through commerce.

• Research &...

Chrome Beta 155 (155.0.8059.16) for Android is now live on Google Play, offering an early look at upcoming browser changes via its Git log and feature...

Google's DualSQL uses multi-agent RL to split Text-to-SQL into two specialized agents—one for schema linking and one for SQL generation—showing how task division improves reliability in practical AI workflows.

AI Max gains greater advertiser control through expanded AI Brief guidance now in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish,...

Google Maps' departure and arrival time tools turn last-minute checks into proactive planning.

• Reactive habit: Opening Maps only when ready to leave...

The UK CMA’s revised proposals would require Google to add qualifying AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity to Android and Chrome choice...

• A standard search uses just 0.3 watt-hours, roughly an LED bulb running for a minute.
• With 13.7 billion daily queries, that aggregates to over 1...

Google’s Android president Sameer Samat frames foldables as a category Android pioneered, declaring “Android is usually where you see the future...