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AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free 1-petabyte platform predicting the molecular effects of all ~9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants.

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGenome Atlas, containing precomputed predictions for the effects of roughly 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across the human genome, spanning hundreds of human and mouse cell types. The 1-petabyte dataset is more than 30 times larger than the AlphaFold Database and includes an AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score combining AlphaGenome and AlphaMissense predictions for both coding and non-coding regions. External collaborators have already used it to identify and experimentally verify variants in unsolved rare disease research. It is available via a free web portal, the AlphaGenome API, and as a skill in Google Antigravity.

Google DeepMind · 8d agoAI research 2 sources

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

Google Search's AI Mode adds travel features: hotel booking, airfare tracking, and airline miles and rewards visibility.

Google introduced three new travel capabilities in Search's AI Mode, including hotel booking, airfare tracking, and viewing airline miles and rewards. The features extend AI Mode from informational queries into transactional travel planning. The announcement positions Google Search to compete more directly with travel-focused booking services.

Google · AI · 20d agoAI industry

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Simon Willison built a GeoJSON map viewer with PNG export using GPT-5.6-Sol, Claude Code for web, and Fable 5.1.

Simon Willison describes building a GeoJSON map viewer that displays boundary files and exports maps as PNGs. GPT-5.6-Sol proactively offered to create the tool, and iterations used Claude Code for web and Fable 5.1. He also notes ChatGPT Work will assemble boundary polygons from government data sources when asked.

Simon Willison · 15d agoAI tools & infra

AI for Societal Impact

Google publishes a collection page showcasing partnerships applying AI to health, disaster prediction, learning, and economic opportunity.

Google's 'AI for Societal Impact' page curates examples of experts and local leaders applying AI to disease detection and prevention, natural disaster prediction, education, and economic opportunity. It is a marketing-oriented collection page with no new technical details.

Google · AI · 1d agoAI industry

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Google highlights AI-for-science advances: AlphaGenome Atlas mapping 9 billion genetic variants, WeatherNext 3 weather model, and global health AI tools.

Google detailed AI advances across science and health, including AlphaGenome Atlas, which mapped all 9 billion possible single-letter genetic changes in the human genome and was made openly available. WeatherNext 3 delivers 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more ahead and is already in products. AlphaFold is used by 4 million researchers in 190 countries, TB chest X-ray screening has processed 25,000+ scans across six nations, and the diabetic retinopathy model has supported 1.15 million screenings. Google also released its AI & Economy ATLAS global usage insights.

Google · AI · 1d agoAI industry

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS

Google launches an interactive AI & Economy ATLAS experience; new research shows nearly half of surveyed scientists use AI daily.

Google introduced new interactive, open-access data visualizations for its AI & Economy ATLAS project tracking global AI adoption patterns. Research from Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT FutureTech analyzed 2,600 specialized AI models and surveyed over 600 U.S. and U.K. scientists, finding nearly half use AI daily and report saving almost seven hours per week. The study also found validation bottlenecks and a growing backlog of untested hypotheses limiting research productivity gains.

Google · AI · 1d agoAI industry

Google’s AI weather model now uses more raw satellite data

Google launched WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model using raw satellite data that beats ECMWF and now powers Search, Gemini, and Maps.

Google released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather forecasting model that incorporates physical surface information (land/ocean type and elevation) to improve surface temperature and dewpoint calculations, improving point location temperature accuracy by up to 30 percent. Its white paper reports roughly 5 percent better upper-atmosphere accuracy than WeatherNext 2, equating to about six additional hours of forecast lead time, outperforming the ECMWF AI model on these metrics. The model now supplies forecast information across Google Search, Gemini, and Maps, though the paper notes unexplained short-lead degraded results and grid-shaped artifacts in some predictions.

Ars Technica · AI · 8d agoModel release

GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts

Hacker News post showcases an interactive earth exploration website that GPT-6 generated from only five prompts.

The item is a Hacker News submission (23 points, 32 comments) linking to earth.ethanplus.ai, an earth exploration website the author says was built by GPT-6 in five prompts. It functions as a community demo of the model's web development and generative capabilities rather than a research or security disclosure.

Hacker News · security · 4d agoAI industryHN 23↑ · 32 comments

Google’s new search redirects make links harder to check before you click

Google routes some search result links through encoded google.com/goto?url= redirects, breaking hover-to-verify link checks and raising scraping costs.

Google has started routing some search result links through opaque google.com/goto?url=... redirects using a custom Google-specific encoding, with the destination visible only via the redirect response's Location header. Google confirmed the rollout as an anti-abuse measure, most likely to make bulk extraction of destination URLs from search results more difficult and costly. Malwarebytes warns the change undermines the standard hover-before-clicking safety advice, while legitimate rank-tracking, SEO auditing, archival, and accessibility tools now face the same rate limits and costs as abusive scrapers.

Malwarebytes Labs · 2d agoIndustry

5 new ways to level up your learning with Search

Google promotes five Search study tools for students preparing for classes and standardized tests.

Google published a back-to-school post highlighting five ways to use Search tools when studying for classes and standardized tests. The post is promotional product guidance rather than a launch, research result, or security announcement.

Google · AI · 28d agoAI industry

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

A new book warns AI firms are repeating Big Tech's education playbook, as New York City and Los Angeles restrict classroom AI use.

NYT education reporter Natasha Singer's book 'Coding Kids' documents how Apple, Microsoft and Google embedded proprietary curricula and Chromebooks in US schools over 15 years, building product loyalty and market position. Google's Chromebook and Classroom dominance positioned it to promote generative AI in classrooms. New York City banned AI in elementary and middle schools and Los Angeles imposed broader restrictions including high schoolers, as parents and teachers push back against screens and AI in classrooms.

The Verge · AI · 6d agoAI industry

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Simon Willison used ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra to generate 5K/10K running loops from OpenStreetMap data, noting the agent's executed code was not visible.

Simon Willison prompted ChatGPT Work running GPT-6 Astra (Max) to design looping 5K and 10K running routes from his address using OpenStreetMap data. The agent ran for 27 minutes and delivered an embedded visualization plus downloadable GPX and GeoJSON files, stating it used Nominatim for geocoding and Overpass to fetch local OSM roads and trails. He notes frustration that the actual executed code and exact actions were not visible in the ChatGPT UI, highlighting a transparency gap in agentic AI products.

Simon Willison · 3d agoAI industry

Google's new AI model predicts the future from sales data, weather, and discount schedules

Google Research released TimesFM-3, a 330M-parameter multivariate time series forecasting model that tops Gift-Eval, FEV-Bench, and Time benchmarks and is on Hugging Face.

Google Research released TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter Transformer-based time series forecasting model trained on more than one trillion real and synthetic data points. It works zero-shot and adds multivariate support, ingesting related series, historical-only covariates, and known future events such as discount schedules and weather forecasts, while filling all future time steps in a single one-shot pass. Google reports first place among pretrained forecasting models on Gift-Eval, FEV-Bench, and Time, ahead of Amazon's Chronos-2, the Toto-2.0 family, and its own TimesFM-2.5. Weights are available on GitHub and Hugging Face, with BigQuery integration planned in the coming weeks.

The Decoder · 4d agoModel release2

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth map projections.

Willison built an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3. The tool was generated by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. Equal Earth is a projection recently voted on at the UN. The post is a vibe-coding demonstration rather than a security or major model event.

Simon Willison · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

Google’s New Search Redirects Make It Harder to Check Where Links Lead Before Clicking

Malwarebytes reports Google's new encoded google.com/goto?url= redirects break hover-preview link checking, weakening a common phishing defense.

Google now routes some search results through opaque google.com/goto?url= redirects using custom encoding, so browser link previews no longer reveal the true destination, only the claimed label above the result. Malwarebytes found the final destination is visible only in the redirect response's Location header, complicating hover-based safety checks as well as scraping, archiving, and audit tools. The change arrives amid malvertising, search-result poisoning, and fake installer campaigns like the recent Node.js infostealer lure. Google says it deploys measures against evolving abuse but did not explain the change.

Cyber Security News · 1d agoResearch

Google Search Makes It Harder to See Where a Link Really Goes Before You Click

Google now routes some Search results through opaque google.com/goto redirects, weakening hover-to-verify anti-phishing checks.

Google has begun serving some organic search results as opaque google.com/goto?url= redirects whose destinations can only be resolved server-side by Google, likely to raise scraping costs for rank trackers and archival services. The change removes the pre-click hover preview of the true destination URL, undermining a long-standing anti-phishing habit for spotting lookalike, typosquatted, or search-optimized phishing domains. Security teams are advised to rely on layered defenses such as domain reputation, DNS and web filtering, browser isolation, and user training rather than hover text.

GBHackers · 1d agoIndustry

Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel

Google's Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to add AI-powered features to the matchday fan experience.

Google announced partnerships between its Gemini AI and Pixel smartphone lines and five global football clubs. The collaboration aims to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and smartphone technology. The announcement is primarily a consumer marketing effort rather than a security-relevant development.

Google · AI · Aug 17, 2026AI industry

Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

Google links a likely LLM-built criminal zero-day for an open-source admin tool to planned mass exploitation and maps AI-assisted threats.

Google Threat Intelligence Group linked a zero-day exploit for a popular open-source web-based administration tool, enabling 2FA bypass with valid credentials via a semantic logic error, to a criminal group, citing educational docstrings, a hallucinated CVSS score, and textbook Python as signs of LLM authorship; the vendor was notified before a planned mass exploitation campaign. The report also details Russia-nexus malware families CANFAIL and LONGSTREAM using AI-generated decoy code, the PROMPTSPY Android backdoor driving the UI through the Gemini API, APT27 using Gemini to build relay tooling, and the TeamPCP (UNC6780) supply chain compromise of LiteLLM and Trivy repositories that planted the SANDCLOCK credential stealer.

Help Net Security · 23d agoThreat actor

AI for everyone in every language

Google says its AI now spans 300+ languages reaching 7 billion people, unveiling Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Live Translate, and TranslateGemma models.

Google announced its technologies now support more than 300 languages spoken by 7 billion people, 86% of the global population. Gemini 3.5 Live Translate powers real-time spoken translation across 70 languages and 2,000+ language pairs, while Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is its most precise speech-to-text model. Its Universal Speech Model was trained on 12 million hours of audio using cross-lingual transfer learning, and TranslateGemma is a family of lightweight open translation models covering 55 languages that run on-device. Open-data partnerships include WAXAL covering 27 Sub-Saharan African languages and Project Vaani with 30,000+ hours of speech across 109 languages.

Google · AI · 1d agoAI industry

Evolve your marketing with new AI tools

Google announced new AI and agentic features across Google Ads and Google Analytics to simplify marketing workflows.

Google published a product announcement introducing AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics. The features are aimed at simplifying marketing workflows. No technical details, benchmarks, or security-relevant content were included.

Google · AI · Aug 10, 2026AI industry

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Google added Sheets canvas to Workspace, letting users generate interactive dashboards, trackers, and charts from spreadsheet data via prompts.

Google introduced Sheets canvas, a Workspace feature that turns spreadsheet data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, and seating charts from a simple prompt. The announcement is a productivity feature launch with no described security impact or risk. No metrics, model details, or pricing are provided in the notice.

Google · AI · Aug 13, 2026AI industry

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Google DeepMind introduced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model powering new accessibility features for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users.

Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model described as a breakthrough for sign language understanding. The model powers new sign language features aimed at Deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Details on benchmarks and model size were not provided in the announcement.

Google DeepMind · Aug 12, 2026Model release

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

Google launches the Fairwind Program giving governments and enterprises access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and CodeMender for autonomous vulnerability finding and patching.

Google DeepMind announced the Fairwind Program, a limited-access offering giving Google Cloud customers, government agencies, and cybersecurity partners access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and the CodeMender harness to autonomously find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities. Initial access prioritizes governments, critical infrastructure operators in healthcare, telecom, energy, and finance, and core technology platforms, with over 650 partners participating. Google also raised its total global cybersecurity funding commitment above $100 million, including $36 million for 35 US cyber clinics.

Google DeepMind · 14d agoAI industry

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

Google Search adds a Live Game Feed, deeper football stats, and Yahoo Fantasy/Sleeper integration with AI Mode for personalized fantasy insights.

Google rolled out football features in Search, including a Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates and AI-powered insights, available on mobile in the U.S. in English. New carousels show league-wide scores and expanded player stats such as sacks, fumbles, and yards after catch. Users can link Yahoo Fantasy or Sleeper accounts to receive start/sit and waiver-wire recommendations through AI Mode. Collegiate team support and broader global availability are planned later this month.

Google · AI · 7d agoAI industry

MetroLLM-Bench: Evaluating Language Models as Transit Kiosk Runtimes

MetroLLM-Bench is a 955-case benchmark testing language models as transit kiosk tool-calling runtimes across six real metro systems.

The benchmark covers 37-414-station metro systems and eleven task categories including routing, fare calculation, disruptions, accessibility, and adversarial input, with 14 deterministic and 8 semantic scoring components. Of 26 models from six vendors, a PEFT-tuned 4B Qwen 3.5 student scored 91.3 on Tier 1, exceeding GPT-5.6 (90.6/90.0), while Muse Glimmer 30B led the composite ranking. A deterministic rule-based baseline reached 84.6, and PEFT gains over base models shrank from +7.03 points at 2B to -0.91 at 27B.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Google's Gemini Spark agent can now edit images, curate albums, and create calendar events in Google Photos for eligible US subscribers.

Google announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage Google Photos libraries, including editing images, curating albums, creating shared albums, converting concert flyer photos into calendar appointments, and running workflows. Google Photos lead Shimrit Ben-Yair said the capabilities roll out over the next few weeks to eligible Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, in English, with no international timeline given. The move illustrates the industry's push to demonstrate consumer AI value amid criticism that labs have poorly communicated AI's benefits.

TechCrunch · AI · 12d agoAI industry

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models' Reasoning

Researchers show encrypted reasoning blocks in OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs can be replayed to recover hidden reasoning and secrets like API keys.

Researchers demonstrated that encrypted reasoning objects from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reasoning APIs could be replayed across sessions, users, and models, letting weaker same-family models act as decoders of hidden reasoning. Across 6,708 public agent trajectories they decoded 315,320 thinking blocks and found 704 privacy artifacts from real user sessions, including 62 API keys, 33 passwords, 24 access tokens, and seven private keys. The replayable blocks also enabled invisible prompt-injection proof-of-concepts; the main extraction attack is no longer reproducible as of August 2026 following mitigations, though no vendor has publicly acknowledged the flaw.

The Hacker News · Aug 12, 2026AI safety & security1

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Analysis finds AI's water footprint growing, with data-center location and cooling technology largely determining the local environmental impact.

The article examines the growing water consumption of AI data centers and argues that real-world impact varies significantly depending on where facilities are sited and which cooling technology they use. It is a contextual analysis of AI's environmental footprint rather than news of a specific incident, breach, or release.

Ars Technica · AI · 20d agoAI industry

Attackers Use Multi-Hop Google Redirects for Phishing Campaign

Threat actors chain multiple legitimate Google service redirects to evade detection and deliver credential harvesting or ScreenConnect remote access tooling.

Threat actors are abusing multiple legitimate Google services to build multi-hop redirect chains that obscure the final destination and bypass reputation-based filtering. The campaign culminates in credential harvesting pages or silent installation of the ScreenConnect remote access tool. Defenders should watch for links that traverse trusted Google domains before landing on malicious endpoints.

Dark Reading · 7d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild