Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: The Next Generation of Expressive AI Speech
Google unveiled Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, its newest text‑to‑speech model that delivers higher naturalness and expressive control across more than 70 languages. The model introduces audio tags, allowing developers to embed style, pace and accent commands directly in the text. It is available in preview through Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and Google Vids, and every output carries an imperceptible SynthID watermark for provenance. On the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard the model posted an Elo score of 1,211, placing it in the most attractive quality‑price quadrant.
Prepay for the Gemini API to Get More Control over Your Spend
Google AI Studio introduced Prepay Billing for the Gemini API, letting developers buy credits upfront and avoid surprise monthly charges. The model launches today for new US Google Cloud Billing Accounts, with a global rollout planned in the coming weeks....
The Google App for Desktop Is Now Available for Windows Users Around the World.
Google has launched the upgraded Google app for desktop on Windows, making it available worldwide in English. The app integrates AI Mode, allowing users to ask natural‑language questions and receive AI‑generated answers with web links. A universal shortcut (Alt + Space) lets...
Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 Enhances Reasoning to Help Robots Navigate Real-World Tasks.
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics‑ER 1.6, an upgraded reasoning‑first model designed to give robots human‑like spatial awareness. The new version boosts spatial logic and multi‑view perception, adding precise task planning, success detection, and a novel instrument‑reading capability for gauges and...
Answering Your Trending Questions on World Quantum Day
Google’s Quantum AI team used World Quantum Day to field the most‑searched questions about quantum computing, outlining its mission to build large‑scale, error‑corrected machines. The team highlighted the unique properties of qubits, such as superposition on the Bloch sphere, and...
We’re Advancing Wetland Restoration and Carbon Removal Science in Google’s Backyard.
Google announced a wetland restoration and research initiative to revive Pond A1, a degraded salt pond adjacent to its Mountain View campus. The effort partners with the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, Ducks Unlimited, and California academic researchers to rebuild...
Bringing People Together at AI for the Economy Forum
Google hosted its inaugural AI for the Economy Forum in Washington, D.C., co‑hosted with MIT FutureTech, to convene economists, industry leaders, and policymakers on AI’s economic and labor implications. The company announced a new AI & Economy Research Program, backed...
Google.org and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation Are Launching a $10 Million Initiative to Train Rural U.S. Healthcare Workers in...
Google.org and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation have teamed up to launch a $10 million philanthropic initiative aimed at boosting AI literacy among rural U.S. healthcare workers. Each organization is contributing $5 million to fund training that focuses on foundational AI knowledge,...
Supporting New Research on the Impacts of AI
Google.org announced an additional $15 million for its Digital Futures Fund, expanding support for independent AI research. The new 2026 cohort will examine AI's impact on labor markets, infrastructure demands, and security governance. Since its 2023 launch, the fund has grown...
UK Department for Transport Accelerates Public Policy Insights with Google Cloud AI
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) partnered with Google Cloud and the Alan Turing Institute to launch the Consultation Analysis Tool (CAT), a generative‑AI system built on Vertex AI and Gemini models. CAT can sift through more than 100,000 free‑text...
New AI Training for 40,000 Manufacturing Workers
Google.org is committing $10 million to the Manufacturing Institute to equip 40,000 current and future manufacturing workers with AI skills. The funding will create two new AI‑focused courses—AI 101 for Manufacturing and AI for Advanced Manufacturing Technicians—and provide Google’s AI Professional Certificate...
From Test Prep to Graduation, Our Latest AI Tools Support Learners
Google announced a suite of education‑focused AI enhancements, including free AI literacy training for 6 million U.S. K‑12 and higher‑ed teachers, expanded NotebookLM limits for Education Plus users, and Gemini’s new integration with Moodle. The company also launched its first research‑affiliates cohort...
6 Easy Ways to Study for Finals with Gemini
Google’s Gemini AI now offers a suite of study‑aid tools aimed at college students facing finals. The rollout introduces Gemini Notebooks, which aggregate PDFs, photos, and chat logs into a single workspace, and AI‑driven features that generate study guides, flashcards,...
Booking Restaurants in the UK Just Got Easier with AI in Search
Google has launched agentic AI capabilities in its Search AI Mode, allowing UK users to book restaurant tables directly from search results. By describing preferences such as cuisine, location, group size and dietary needs, the AI scans multiple reservation platforms...
Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach Is Expanding to Reach 37 Countries and 32 Languages.
Fitbit is rolling out its Personal Health Coach public preview to 37 countries and 32 languages, covering major markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The expansion reaches both iOS and Android users, available to free and Premium subscribers. The...
How 400+ Campuses Are Putting AI to Work
Google's AI for Education Accelerator has enrolled more than 400 colleges across all 50 states in under a year, offering a free AI Professional Certificate that carries ACE‑approved college credit. The program equips students, faculty, and staff with practical AI...
Introducing Learn Mode: Your Personal Coding Tutor in Google Colab
Google Colab has rolled out two new Gemini features—Custom Instructions and Learn Mode—giving users granular control over the AI assistant and turning it into a step‑by‑step coding tutor. Custom Instructions are saved at the notebook level, letting authors embed preferred coding...
The New, AI-Powered Google Finance Is Expanding to More than 100 Countries.
Google has launched its AI‑powered Finance platform worldwide, extending the service beyond the United States and India to more than 100 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, and Mexico. The rollout features full local‑language support, allowing users to ask...
AI Is Changing Retail. Here’s How Businesses Can Keep Up.
Retailers must ensure their Google Merchant Center data is clean and complete to unlock AI-driven shopping experiences such as conversational commerce, virtual try‑ons, and shoppable CTV. In a recent Ads Decoded Podcast, Google’s retail product leaders highlighted that messy feeds...
Get More Done with New Vertical Tabs and Immersive Reading Mode in Chrome
Google announced the rollout of two Chrome enhancements aimed at boosting productivity. Users can now enable vertical tabs, moving the tab strip to the side for clearer titles and easier group management. A revamped reading mode offers a full‑page, distraction‑free...
Expanding AI Literacy to Catholic-School Classrooms Nationwide.
Google has launched a dedicated AI Educator Group for Catholic‑school teachers in partnership with the National Catholic Educational Association. The program aims to provide AI literacy tools to 140,000 U.S. educators who serve about 1.6 million students. Six teachers will visit...
Here’s How We Built Gmail to Keep Your Data Secure and Private in the Gemini Era.
Google announced that its Gemini AI, now embedded in Gmail, does not train on users' personal email content and only accesses messages for isolated tasks such as summarization. The system processes the request within the inbox, then discards the data,...
5 New Features for Android XR
Google announced a rollout of five new Android XR features for Samsung Galaxy XR headsets, starting today. The updates include auto‑spatialization that turns 2D apps into 3D experiences, a growing library of over 100 native XR apps, wall‑pinning of apps,...
An Update on Our Mental Health Work
Google announced a suite of safety upgrades for its Gemini AI, including a redesigned “Help is available” module that flags mental‑health cues and a one‑touch crisis‑hotline interface offering chat, call or text options. Google.org pledged $30 million over three years to...
New Ways to Balance Cost and Reliability in the Gemini API
Gemini API introduces two new service tiers—Flex and Priority—allowing developers to fine‑tune cost and reliability within a single synchronous interface. Flex delivers up to 50 % lower pricing for latency‑tolerant, background workloads, while Priority guarantees the highest criticality and graceful downgrade...
Gemma 4: Byte for Byte, the Most Capable Open Models
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemma 4, an open‑source model family spanning 2 B, 4 B, 26 B Mixture‑of‑Experts and 31 B dense variants. The 31 B model currently sits at #3 on the Arena AI open‑model leaderboard, while the 26 B MoE holds the #6 spot, outperforming models twenty...
Create, Edit and Share Videos at No Cost in Google Vids
Google Vids now offers free, high‑quality video generation using the Veo 3.1 model, granting every Google account ten video generations each month. Subscribers to Google AI Pro and Ultra gain access to custom music creation via Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro, as well...
Here’s How to Watch Coachella on YouTube.
Google’s YouTube will exclusively livestream the 2026 Coachella festival starting April 10 at 4 PM PT. Viewers can watch up to seven stages, with four simultaneous streams in 4K via a multiview interface on TV. The platform also adds a Coachella TV...
Give Your Laptop a New Life with ChromeOS Flex
Google and Back Market have launched a $3 (≈ $3.25) ChromeOS Flex USB kit that lets users install the free, cloud‑first operating system on older Windows 10 PCs and Macs. The kit includes a reusable, waste‑compensated USB drive, step‑by‑step guides and video tutorials,...
Our AI Literacy Day Recap: Putting Educators in the Lead
Google celebrated National AI Literacy Day by hosting New York City educators to explore its Gemini and other AI tools, showcasing classroom applications such as virtual history worlds and AI‑generated quizzes. The company announced a $150 million commitment to AI‑literacy programs,...
We’re Creating a New Satellite Imagery Map to Help Protect Brazil’s Forests.
Google has partnered with Brazil’s government to produce the nation’s first high‑resolution satellite imagery map of its 2008 forest landscape. By processing thousands of historic images and removing clouds, the map delivers detail up to six times finer than previous...
Check Out More Certified Refurbished Pixel Models on the Google Store and Amazon Renewed.
Google is expanding its Certified Refurbished program, adding the Pixel 8a to an existing lineup that includes the Pixel 7a, 7, 8, 8 Pro, and 7 Pro on the Google Store. Refurbished devices are inspected, repaired with genuine Google parts, and shipped in 100 %...
New Personal Health Coach Features Are Coming to Fitbit.
Fitbit is expanding its personal health coach public preview by adding three new wellness tools: Cycle Health, Mental Wellbeing, and Nutrition & Water logging. Cycle Health lets users record menstrual symptoms and, for Premium members, receive personalized cycle insights. The...
Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, Our Most Cost-Effective Video Generation Model
Google DeepMind announced Veo 3.1 Lite, the most cost‑effective video generation model in its Veo 3.1 family. The new model delivers the same generation speed as Veo 3.1 Fast while costing less than half, supporting text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video at 720p and 1080p resolutions. Developers can...
Google’s ‘AI Works for Britain’ Aims to Help Stuck Brits Unlock Progression
Google UK announced the AI Works for Britain programme, a nationwide upskilling effort backed by roughly $2.5 million in Google.org grant funding. The initiative targets the 76% of Britons who feel stuck in their careers by teaching practical AI skills through...
Google Maps Simplifies Battery Predictions and Trip Planning for 350+ Android Auto EV Models.
Google Maps is extending its AI‑powered electric‑vehicle charging features to Android Auto users of more than 350 models across over 15 U.S. brands. Drivers can add their EV details, see projected battery usage, receive optimal charging‑stop suggestions and an updated...
Make the Switch: Bring Your AI Memories and Chat History to Gemini
Google’s Gemini app now lets users import AI memories and chat histories from competing assistants, either by copying a generated prompt or uploading a ZIP file of past conversations. The feature, rolling out today, also renames the “past chats” section...
Watch James Manyika Talk AI and Creativity with LL COOL J.
James Manyika, Google’s senior vice president for research, labs, technology and society, sits down with hip‑hop legend LL Cool J for the latest Dialogues on Technology and Society episode. The pair discuss the evolution of creative tools, from early drum machines to...
Announcing the Winners of the MedGemma Impact Challenge
Google announced the winners of its MedGemma Impact Challenge, a competition that attracted over 850 global developer teams to build prototype health applications using open‑weight models from the Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI‑DEF) program. First‑place went to EpiCast, a mobile...
Upgrade Your Creative Performance with March’s Demand Gen Drop.
Google’s Demand Gen platform now includes AI‑powered Veo, which turns static images into video ad variations, helping advertisers achieve “Excellent” ad strength. The suite also expands creator partnerships, enabling authentic YouTube Shorts content that lifts conversion rates by roughly 30 %....
Search Live Is Expanding Globally
Google is rolling out Search Live globally to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available, covering over 200 countries and territories. The launch leverages Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a new multilingual audio‑voice model that powers real‑time voice and camera interactions. Users can...
Lyria 3 Pro: Create Longer Tracks in More Google Products
Google unveiled Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music‑generation model that can produce tracks up to three minutes and offers granular control over song sections. The service is now in public preview on Vertex AI and has been embedded in Google AI Studio, Gemini API,...
Build with Lyria 3, Our Newest Music Generation Model
Google DeepMind unveiled Lyria 3, a new music‑generation model suite now in public preview via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The lineup includes Lyria 3 Pro, which creates studio‑quality songs up to three minutes, and Lyria 3 Clip, optimized for rapid 30‑second loops. Both...
5 Ways to Collaborate with Our Agentic Advisors
Google’s suite of AI‑driven advisors—Analytics Advisor and Ads Advisor—lets marketers interact via natural language to extract data insights, troubleshoot campaigns, and generate creative assets. The tools remember prior conversations, delivering increasingly personalized recommendations and surfacing hidden trends without explicit queries....
Building Superconducting and Neutral Atom Quantum Computers
Google Quantum AI announced the launch of a neutral‑atom quantum computing program to complement its decade‑long superconducting qubit effort. While superconducting chips have demonstrated millions of gate cycles and aim for tens of thousands of qubits, neutral‑atom arrays already scale...
3 New Gemini Features Are Coming to Google TV
Google is adding three Gemini-powered features to Google TV: richer visual answers, interactive deep‑dive learning modules, and concise sports briefs. The updates deliver live scorecards, video tutorials, narrated educational walkthroughs, and quick league highlights directly on the big screen. Rollout...
Connecting Your Car Beyond the Dashboard
Google announced it will open‑source the Android Automotive OS for Software‑Defined Vehicles (AAOS SDV), extending the platform beyond infotainment to cover non‑safety vehicle functions. The move creates a unified, open infrastructure that lets carmakers integrate software modules more efficiently and push...
Google’s Commerce Media Suite: Where Retailer Insights Meet the Power of YouTube
Google unveiled its Commerce Media Suite, integrating retailer‑derived audiences into Google Marketing Platform tools such as Display & Video 360, Search Ads 360, and Google Ads. The suite now lets brands activate Kroger shopper segments on YouTube and third‑party inventory, with SKU‑level...
The M-Trends 2026 Report Shows How to Strengthen Business Cybersecurity.
Mandiant’s M‑Trends 2026 report reveals a pivotal shift in cyber‑criminal tactics, moving from pure data theft to actively disrupting business operations. The research shows attackers increasingly embed themselves within the very technologies that power enterprises, creating hidden attack vectors. By mapping...
EU Lawmakers Must Act Now to Ensure the Continued Protection of Children
Technology firms warn that the EU ePrivacy derogation, which has underpinned voluntary child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detection since 2021, will lapse on April 3. The expiry would strip legal certainty that enables companies to use hash‑matching tools to spot and...