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Google expands experimental access to its geospatial reasoning agent
A new Earth AI report combines specialized models, spatial tools and planning, with early access through Google Earth and an agent API.
Google opens Deep Review for technical document checks
The public release expands an author feedback experiment into a document review tool, initially supporting PDF and plain text inputs.
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for complex, multi-step work
The frontier model reaches developers and eligible paid Gemini users, with engineering and professional workflows central to Google’s pitch.
Google introduces a unified Gemini agent for enterprise work
The Gemini at Work announcement connects persistent execution, organizational context and tool access in a shared agent architecture.
Google tests geospatial foundation models across public health studies
Five partner case studies examine location embeddings as inputs to existing epidemiological and statistical workflows.
Google Research maps open privacy problems for autonomous agents
A workshop report examines appropriate information sharing and action boundaries across system, model and user layers.
Google’s Suncatcher prototype reaches orbit to test space AI hardware
The satellite mission is an early research step examining how TPUs handle launch stress and the environment in space.
Google Research proposes a controller for more precise AI images
Diffusion Controller adds a lightweight steering network to balance target alignment with the quality of the base model’s output.
Google Research studies multi-agent direction for longer AI videos
The work combines planning, state tracking and visual refinement to reduce character drift across generated shots.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live for conversational voice agents
The new Live models support background tool calls while a conversation continues, with a separate option for deeper reasoning.
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