AISep 1, 2026Google AI Blog
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Google's August recap is a victory lap: a cheaper Flash model, a billion Gemini users, and a student giveaway. The cadence and the price cut are the competitive moves.
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Google, DeepMind, and Gemini developments.
AISep 1, 2026TechCrunch
Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
Google Pics ships into Workspace as a prompt-first design layer. The product is not a Canva clone. It is a bet that most office graphics never needed a marketplace of human templates.
AISep 1, 2026Google DeepMind
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Google gave Gemini the ability to decide what part of a video to watch. Up to 88 percent fewer tokens and 66 percent lower cost is the pitch; the real shift is video stopping being a fixed-rate stream.
AISep 1, 2026Google AI Blog
Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Google Pics puts generative image editing inside Workspace, making prompt-driven visual production a native document workflow rather than a separate creative application.
AISep 1, 2026The Verge
Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI
The Verge’s read on Google Pics is a Workspace lock-in story: tap an object, describe the change, stay in Slides. The design tool is a feature. The switching cost is the point.
AIAug 31, 2026TechCrunch
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
The Pentagon is putting tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok behind a secure portal, making commercial frontier models part of routine defense work without consumer data channels.
AIAug 27, 2026Google DeepMind
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Google’s video update is less about prettier generation than about giving developers edit-like controls over continuity, iteration and output quality.
AIAug 27, 2026Google AI Blog
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Google is moving travel AI from recommendation toward transaction, adding price alerts, loyalty redemption and hotel checkout inside Search.
AIAug 27, 2026Google DeepMind
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Google’s double-blind evaluation pilot treats benchmark contamination as a systems-security problem, not merely a testing etiquette issue.
AIAug 26, 2026Google DeepMind
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google is turning speech recognition into an intent-aware interface layer, raising the product value—and the risk—well beyond literal transcription alone.
AIAug 21, 2026Google DeepMind
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Persistent social worlds are a harder test of useful intelligence than games with fixed scores and clean resets. The limits of the evidence are as important as the headline announcement.
AIAug 17, 2026Google AI Blog
Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
Google is using football sponsorships to make consumer AI and phones recurring match-day habits. The limits of the evidence are as important as the headline announcement.